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March 04, 2009
Optional: Panic, Pessimism & Self-Pity
The other "E", in his studio, goofing on us.
Redux: So, tell me again, what do we do now?
Bad stock performances lately. More road rage, as even mellow car-centric Californians lose their tempers. And dog kicking, we hear, is way up in the Midwest, where until now "Appropriate" had served as Mantra, Law and Religion since early 1900s. There are also reports that, in the last 3 or 4 days, people in Boston and NYC are one (1) degree meaner than usual, i.e., bordering on criminally insane. Even the resourceful, lyrical, way-smart "E", domicile unknown, exists in a celestial malaise.
So again we summon the Masters of Professional Service Firms for guidance in the The Way-Down Global Economy. Some advice, with great related links, from people who think about this stuff all the time (so you don't have to). They were thinking about it all along. You can hire them, too.
Ed Poll: "Three Lenses for Law Firm Recession Survival" (9/16/08)
Jim Hassett: "The First Thing Lawyers Should Do In A Recession" (1/30/08)
Dennis Kennedy: "Planning for Legal Technology in a Recession" (1/22/08)
Tom Kane: "Time to Get Closer to Clients" (9/25/08)
Bruce MacEwen: "Costs & Revenues: Health Check Time" (9/5/08)
The prescient Larry Bodine: "Get Ready for the Coming Recession" (8/26/07)
Jennifer E. King: "Marketing Your Firm’s Legal Services During an Economic Decline" (2008 LexisNexis white paper)
And finally, Chicago trial-lawyer, thinker and value architect Patrick J. Lamb: Read Anything Pat writes these days.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (1)
The China instability hype.
Dan Harris at China Law Blog explains Why China Will Remain Stable. "I am getting so tired of the media litany that an economic downturn in China essentially guarantees political instability."
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Massey Coal due process-recusal case argued.
Fourteenth Amendment--Due Process Clause--Popularly Elected Judges--$3 Million Campaign Contributions--Overturned $50 Million Verdicts--That Recusal Thing. Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Company, Inc. (08-22) was argued before the Supreme Court yesterday. We're on pins, needles and West Virgina wheedles. Via Lyle Denniston at SCOTUS Blog the transcript is here.
Posted by JD Hull at 12:00 AM | Comments (0)