The Internet’s Spine Problem: “Big Mouths. No Names”.
Mr. Chicken: He comments, and blogs, but doesn’t use his real name. Some day he’ll become a person, who’ll put his real […]
John Arthur Carradine (1936-2009)
One of us, if you grew up in the 1960s-1970s. Forget about Shane and Kung Fu, which likely embarrassed him. A brilliant […]
Standards. Tools That Work. Get Some.
Is the usual “sales” model designed for failure? Renaissance human, NYT-best selling author and sales consultant Sharon Drew Morgen asks: “Why Is […]
China Law for Business: Marriage, Mistresses–and Love’s Odd Equitable Remedies.
Make beaucoup dollar. Now give back. Here’s something that didn’t happen in Elkhart, Muncie or Connersville last week. Or Indianaoplis, either. At […]
Make Yours Moxie.
Demand first-rate work of yourself, and others. (1) What are you doing today? (2) What are your employees doing for you today?
The Economist: Please Don’t Kill Yankee Drive.
Even Brits like us “the way we were”. In an opinion piece that will trouble the Slackoeisie, and more senior looters in […]
Part II–“Wartime Consigliere”: Bunnies with JDs are nice but…
A Warrior knows how to make peace. A Scared Bunny will never know how to win a war. —Scott Greenfield. Trial Lawyer. […]
Yes–and your GC should be a “Wartime Consigliere”.
The Wrong Stuff: Thomas “Tom” Feargal Hagen (Paramount Pictures) It’s not a Godfather thing, not a macho thing, not a litigation thing. […]
Overheard in Santa Monica: Club Ned.
“Honey, just wear a black turtleneck–even Ned Beatty looks good in a black turtleneck.” Club Ned: Beatty considering Georgia fishing float-trip with […]
Saturday’s Charon
London’s Bits and Bites of America. It’s Saturday in Anytown, America, in almost-June. Shopping. First, the Food Lion. Then Costco. Maybe Wal-Mart. […]
Breaking news: GeekLawyer sued, finally.
The Romans at Teutoburg Forest, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, the Oscar Wilde trial, the death of Bambi’s mother. And now this. We […]
Revisiting Pay- to-Learn.
They’re picking up prisoners, and putting them in a pen And all she wants to do is dance. Fixed fee, hourly fee, […]
Diversions
Ah, but it is hard to find this track of the divine in the midst of this life we lead… Hermann Hesse, […]
But, Olympia, is there an even better qualified “Not-Woman”?
Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, a moderate Republican, congratulated Obama for “nominating a well qualified woman.” WSJ: “Senate GOP Reaction Guarded To Sotomayor […]
The Greatest American Lawyer: Out With His Posse.
A glimpse into Traverse City’s small but colorful underground. See “I Could Be an Idiot, but You Would Never Know It Because […]
Graduating in the time of down-markets.
Canada as light years ahead. See “Graduating Into A Recession” at Jordan Furlong’s Law21. And see the always-superior and client-centric CBA Practice […]
Clients and customers.
All we know so far on keeping them is here. No, we’re not experts. But we think about clients, and our clients’ […]
La Vie Parisienne: Spring 2009 in the U.S.
In the middle of a recession, Americans live in a nation where work slowly goes out of style, European statism is at […]
Holden Oliver (2007-2009): Done, out, onward.
As planned, and dreaded, “old” law student Holden Oliver, a WAC? co-blogger, is leaving us. He graduates, takes a bar exam, and […]
Holden Oliver (2007-2009)
Good luck, sir.
A Get-A-Life Conference? For lawyers? Now? Get the net.
How about give blood instead? Say it ain’t so, Chicago. You want work-life balance ? Teach. Sell shoes. Listen to lots of […]
Slackoisie-Fest: Fighting Loser-ism in the Workplace.
Listen, you creeps, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the […]
The client’s stock price this week?
The client, it seems, actually wants you to know him, her or it. Take time out to learn the stock price, industry, […]
The world’s best banks?
You’re kidding, right? Tough one. “Trying to work out which banks are the world’s best is a bit like awarding the prize […]
Towards a reinvented Martindale-Hubbell?
Martindale-Hubbell also represents many other solutions that help law firms establish…a full range of marketing and client development services. One of our […]
Discovery: The Miracle 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 […]