One American’s Kashmir
This summer WAC?‘s peripatetic friend Maryam, a Morocco-based photojournalist at My Marrakesh, visited the legendarily beautiful but long-troubled Kashmir region of India, […]
Two Windsor Castle gargolyes
Extreme ambitions suddenly seize Russia.
Maybe master shape-shifting first, Comrades? See Newsweek: “Medvedev’s Anti-Alcohol Campaign Tries to Make Russia Sober Up“. The idea is to cut the […]
Litigation: Two Ways of the Trial Notebook.
Originally posted September 8, 2008 from Amsterdam: From the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, where there are Old Ones and Young Ones in their […]
Remedies: More China Mistress Sex Contract Law.
Chinese courts tend to look much more at the equities of a situation than at the literal meaning of the contract or […]
The 3 best damn podcast shows for business lawyers.
WAC?, and the undersigned especially, is wrong about many things. We would never have predicted that “Podcasts”–or Internet-based radio shows–would have lasted, […]
Pont Saint-Patrick, Cork
I bind to myself today The power of Heaven, The light of the sun, The brightness of the moon, The splendour of […]
Plan B for recruiting “Grunts”?
The “elite” associates you recruited: Would they fight for your clients? Would they fight for anyone? (Columbia Pictures, 1981) Uh, “associates”, rather. […]
P&G’s new chief Bob McDonald: On leadership.
The graveyards of leadership are littered with people who have ignored culture. Bob McDonald, the new CEO of Procter & Gamble (NYSE: […]
The Duke Experience
From yesterday’s edition of The Chronicle, the enduring and well-regarded Duke student daily: JUDGE OKS PRESSLER’S SLANDER SUIT A North Carolina appeals […]
Devil Perfectionism
Tormented GC in South East Asia: “The dweebs. The dweebs.” The downside of Type-A. Perfectionism. A great place to “be from”. A […]
Redux: The Sacred, Immovable, No-Excuses Weekly Conference Call.
They are missed or canceled only for the most compelling reasons. Vacations, trips to Europe, Asia, South America, head colds, bad traffic, […]
“Humanizing law school”: Mr. Rogers makes it nicer and funner.
Do clients deserve Big Bird in the trenches? Please get the net. And will that guy fight four you and yours when […]
We Americans? We lawyers? Too normal?
So, Justin, did you ever have an original thought in your whole damn life? Go ahead. Go crazy. It’s Friday. Wear those […]
FCPA and China: Teleconference on September 3.
China is, after all, this century’s Wild West show. See Dan Harris’s China Law Blog for details about a seminar next Thursday […]
Client Town or Lawyer Town?
“The Lawyers”, circa 1855, Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) Are the three gentlemen in this famous sketch client-centric or “lawyer-oriented”? We will never know. […]
Cambodia
WAC?, Cambodia, 1968. Savor the brutality: Get Badness in your case out in the open. There is a reason why it is […]
Litigation: If you bill by the hour, why not bill twice a month?
Billing twice a month keeps the client more attuned in real-time to the actual economic demands of the project–and helps the client […]
The AALS: Desperately seeking trivia?
Too early to tell if this meritorious or not–but according to one blog post, which we presume was not joking, AALS has […]
Litigation: The Miracle, Salvation, and Holy Surprise of Rule 56(f), Fed. R. Civ. P.
(f) When Affidavits Are Unavailable. If a party opposing the motion shows by affidavit that, for specified reasons, it cannot present facts […]
Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921-2009)
I grew up in a family of Depression Era-WWII Parents and Boomer Kids. For us, the U.S. economy overall was very good […]
E-mail: Are you lawyering or typing? Is either one of them working for you?
Humans are damn fine machines when plugged into one another. Voices, vibes, faces, bodies, winks, hand gestures, touching another’s hand or shoulder […]
More Manhattan Moxie: “Notes from the Breadline” continues.
Going suddenly solo and writing about it takes big ones. See at Above the Law: “To Be On Your Own (Part II)”, […]
Paris and Real Life: In black, white and fresh.
Work and life. I love both so I do not separate them. No need to. They usually merge, occasionally split, but always […]
Greater China: More than a feeling.
Dan Harris is no digital creep. In good and bad times, China is part of our new world. Visit China Law Blog. […]
“Just like a hog”… Use your real names on the Net.
To comment and be published at this blog you must tell us who you really are–unless you are a Chinese dissident, a […]
