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May 05, 2006
Superfund: "A Dark Legacy's Impact"
You will need to click at two points to bring it up, but here's the on-line version of our firms' sixth and final "Waterlawged" column this year for the tony glamour periodical Water and Wastewater Products Magazine about groundwater contamination and the federal Superfund law. Pretty gothic but apt title, and not the one we chose, as I recall--but you get the idea. Superfund, or CERLCA, deals with abandoned hazardous waste sites. It's not a humorous topic--nor should it be--but I did my best to make it interesting and at points entertaining enough so that more readers than just environmental lawyers and chemical engineers could get through it.
Posted by JD Hull at 12:25 PM | Comments (0)
We are the world/We are the children?
An NBC reporter thinks blogs are coming into their own. This spare but thoughtful article by NBC correspondent Dawn Fratangelo bloomed last night. It's a very upbeat piece. She says blogs are increasing in number, power and influence. They are the "new age opinion pages" by names, no-names and Everyman. Shucks.
Posted by JD Hull at 02:50 AM | Comments (0)
May 04, 2006
My Firm Would Like That Compliment, Too.
"We don't have their phone number, we have their DNA". Two weeks ago, Patrick Lamb, the Chicago-based trial lawyer and blogger at In Search of Perfect Client Service had a post reporting that Cox Enterprises' General Counsel Andrew Merdek had said this about his outside law firm, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, in an interview with the National Law Journal. I noticed the quote when Patrick relayed it--and I can't get it out of my head. The ultimate. Talk about clients being and feeling safe.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:02 AM | Comments (0)
May 02, 2006
"Can't stay late tonight...I got a thing."
Please see at Peter Lattman's WSJ Law Blog yesterday's short article "Today's Associates: Slackers or Just Smarter?". For a few years I've been wondering about this myself, but maybe the answer is the latter: how can you argue that not being a workaholic is bad? Do note the number, nature and heat of the comments to this post--16 of them so far.
Posted by JD Hull at 01:10 PM | Comments (0)
May 01, 2006
All Day on Law Day: Ben Cowgill's Blawg Review #55
Other than some good works by yours truly, and infrequently at that, one of the few good moments lately for a certain enduring university in Durham, NC is Blawg Review #55 by fellow alum Ben Cowgill at SoloBlawg.com. Is this Blue Devil talented and multi-faceted or what? An innovative and very interesting bonus is that Blawg Review #55, with its looking-for-America theme, runs all day, today, which is Law Day. Very clever. If you're a boomer, Ben's treatment may make you a little nostalgic.
Posted by JD Hull at 05:57 PM | Comments (0)