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April 21, 2008
Golden on mentoring.
Mentoring can be ugly or rewarding--and even euphoric. It depends on whether you plan it and tweak it right. See Michelle Golden's "Internal Mentoring Programs: The Wrong Approach" at her Golden Practices.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (1)
Is GAAP on its way out?
Will the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) soon replace Generally Accepted Accounting Principles? See this post by Brian Ritchey at More Partner Income, inspired in part by "Goodbye GAAP" in CFO Magazine.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
"Have you ever been punched by a client?"
We mean literally. See this one by David Giacalone, both lyrical and spiritual leader of the entire blogosphere, at f/k/a....
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (2)
The best books on "all you can be".
...Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . .
--F.Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
See the second appearance of Stephanie West Allen's "Reading Minds" column in the ABA's Law Practice Magazine for April/May. Marian Lee, Bruce MacEwen, Michael Melcher and Catherine Hance make their selections. Which one of these reading minds chose The Great Gatsby?
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 01:22 AM | Comments (1)
Blawg Review #156: Are you an Avatar?
"Are virtual worlds the beginning of the end of society?" And what's virtual law, anyway? Author-blogger Benjamin Duranske hosts this week's Blawg Review #156 at Virtually Blind. Strange, wonderful, even inspiring. And a very nice review of last week's posts. BR #156 also gets a write-up by Robert Ambrogi, who like us is intrigued by virtuality, at ALM's Legal Blog Watch.
An Avatar, pre-Durankse.
Posted by Brooke Powell at 12:58 AM | Comments (0)