Curmudgeon This–For Now.
Busy as I am defending corporate America and European companies from the forces of darkness and dumbness, traveling around the U.S. and […]
German Views on U.S. Mid-Term Elections
From the Atlantic Review, a news digest edited by three German Fulbright alumni now in Berlin, Hamburg and Shanghai, here is “German […]
Quit working on Maggie’s farm.
Start by tuning into www.imthereforyoubaby.com and The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Galaxy–with our friends Barbara Bry and Neil Senturia–tomorrow, Saturday, at 1-2 pm […]
Four New IBLC Firms
Our firm’s longstanding international business law group, the IBLC, has four new members. In Algiers, Algeria: Bouchaib Law Firm; in Belize City, […]
Getting Judgments in China.
See “The Vast Chinese Archive of Unexecuted Judgments” at Rich Kuslan’s Asia Business Intelligence.
Will Your Clients Help Market Your Firm?
From one of the smartest law practice management sites, which should be on your short list if you read just a few […]
Tuesday’s Election Results and Litigation Reform.
What About Clients? supports most litigation, tort or judicial reforms which would curtail or eliminate “junk” science, junk cases, junk judges, you […]
Sensitive Litigation Moment: “Lonely” Rule 36, Fed. R. Civ. P.
From the standpoint of both the client and its trial lawyer, Rule 36 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, “Requests for […]
Just Doing the Work is Marketing.
Note What About Clients? Rule Six: When You Work, You Are Marketing. And then read from the ABA’s LPM Section’s Law Practice […]
12 Rules of Client Service
The goal of the “What About Clients?” 12 Rules is outrageous client service–but the 12 Rules’ way of getting there is to […]
Delia Venables: UK and Ireland
If you haven’t seen it before, see Legal Resources in the UK and Ireland, by Delia Venables. This is a mainstay and […]
Guess what? You’re a salesperson.
Here’s “Do You Consider Yourself a Salesperson?” by Tom Kane over at his blog, the consistently fine LegalMarketingBlog.com.
A penny for the old Guy.
Charon QC, who like WAC? is un-PC and risks becoming an ‘R’, has reminded us that tonight is Guy Fawkes and Bonfire […]
“Oh, NYC, You Talk A Lot–Let’s Have a Look at You”
Why I could care less if someone wants to dress up for Halloween as Osama Bin Laden, call flight attendants “stews”, date […]
Civil perjury: If you can prove it, do you use it? And how?
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Happy Birthday to Justin Patten’s Human Law
One of my favorite sites in any jurisdiction is Human Law, by English lawyer-consulant Justin Patten. HL turned one this week. Justin […]
Part II: Tennessee Senate Race: ‘How would Jesus vote?’
From NBC News, by Brian Williams, here’s “It’s Mud Over Issues in the Volunteer State” in Harold Ford Jr. v. Bob Corker. […]
Arsenic, Old Graves and Green Funerals.
From Jason Goodman, Managing Editor at Water and Wastewater Products magazine, one of the better management-side environmental news publications out there, here’s […]
Moving South: Kitzbühel, Austria
Kitzbühel, even older than Mainz, is a medieval city in the province of Tyrol, Austria, near the river Kitzbühler Ache. The Illyrians, […]
View from Germany: Daimler To Dump Chrysler?
“Will Daimler Shed Itself Of Chrysler?“, by Dietmar Hawranek at Spiegel International. Excerpt: [A]s long as Chrysler is still showing billions in […]
Mainz, Germany
With a strong mix of Celtic, Roman, Frankish and Jewish roots, Mainz is very old (founded by Roman General Drusus in 13 […]
The rise, sort of, of legal weblogs.
Do I think blogging is (a) important or (b) the wave of the future? Answers: (a) no, and (b) I have no […]
Newton’s Law: “Third Wave Law Firms”
WAC? always did like Texans. A man with a true virtual law firm, Texas lawyer Chuck Newton at Spare Room Tycoon has […]
In Praise of Structure.
Do we lawyers know how to get things done, done right and done on time? Do we even value that? I wonder. […]
Work-Life Balance This.
It’s Sunday, near the end of October. This week offers us all a series of ancient harvest and life-death cycle observances with […]
Writing Well: LH Wordsmith
From Arnie Herz at Legal Sanity, see “The Next Wave of Legal Sanity“, and learn about LH Wordsmith. This is Lori Herz’s […]
The Senate Race in Tennessee: “How would Jesus vote?”
Before getting knee-deep into private practice, WAC? worked twice–on both Senate and House sides for, respectively, a ‘D’ and then an ‘R’–at […]
“And then it dawned on me a minute into his opening that ‘Racehorse’ Flannigan, our trial counsel, was untried…”
Corporate counsel: Ever get That Sinking Feeling about your fire-breathing litigators after the trial starts? Do those guys just threaten on the […]