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July 24, 2006
Sane American Employer Sought By 157 Mega-Productive Lawyers.
WAC? does not, generally speaking, love either American lawyers or the U.S. federal estate (or "death") tax. Neither institution encourages productivity, is efficient, has high standards or is "customer-service" oriented. However, as to lawyers, there are always exceptions. And everyone loves productive lawyering. According to a New York Times article by David Cay Johnston, in what may be the Bush Administration's "back-door" play to emasculate enforcement and collection of the death tax in lieu of an outright repeal, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service is cutting 157 out of its 345 estate tax lawyers in the next 2 months.
Forget for a moment about how you feel about the death tax and consider this amazing fact. The NYT article says that "for each hour they [IRS estate tax lawyers] work, they find an average of $2,200 of taxes owed to the government" (emphasis ours). WAC?'s advice is (1) show the article to associate lawyers to inspire new efficiency techniques and (2) if you do tax work at your shop, find out who these 157 people are--and hire them.
Posted by JD Hull at 10:14 AM | Comments (0)
Coming of Age: Legal Blogs as a "Vast Amicus Brief".
See this particularly insightful and--if you think about it, exciting--Howard Bashman special to Law.com.
Posted by JD Hull at 09:16 AM | Comments (0)
Blawg Review #67 - Rules of reason and much more.
David Fischer and his colleagues at Antitrust Review have covered last week's better posts in Blawg Review #67. There's a nice balance here of everything from Denise Howell, Alison Margolin's wonderful YouTube performance and golfers on drugs to Ted Stevens, Presidential cursing and even BAR/BRI, which may owe quite a few of us money under the antitrust laws.
Posted by JD Hull at 06:48 AM | Comments (0)