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November 18, 2006
Saturday's Charon & Maitland's Lament
London's Charon QC, one of 3 or 4 Europeans who can use "dumbass" properly in a sentence, is regular WAC? reading on Saturday, whether traveling or working. Today as usual lots of good things from Charon, and he refers to UK IP solicitor Maitland Kalton on the link between unhappy lawyers and unhappy clients, springing from a piece in The Gazette, the official publication for The Law Society of England and Wales, and the major legal weekly in Europe. Has Mr. Kalton hit a nerve for us all? See also Justin Patten's heads-up post on this subject.
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November 17, 2006
Redux: The 7 Habits of Highly Useless Corporate Lawyers
Remember Ernie from Glen Burnie and his story about the 1836 Virginia document? Tonight I met with EFGB at the Old Ebbitt Grill on 15th Street. Under blistering cross-examinations by three of our old friends, mainly transactional types, the kind of guys who beat fish to death with their bare hands, Ernie stuck to his story. "The 7 Habits of Highly Useless Corporate Lawyers".
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In search of: French legal weblogs in English.
Law is the ultimate backstage pass. There are more students in law schools than there are lawyers walking the Earth.
--John Milton/Satan (L’Associé du Diable)
French blawgers: Dites-le en anglais, s'il vous plait. Because WAC?'s and other U.S. lawyers' French is rusty, and maybe dying. We all promise to get it back--but in recent years, the French language has waned as an international language. Tragically, English, German, Japanese and Chinese are becoming bigger deals. So does anyone know of French blawgs in English or with English translations? Are you out there--especially anything on French employment law?
Posted by JD Hull at 08:59 PM | Comments (0)
November 16, 2006
Del Bianco, the Blog.
My trip tomorrow back to old haunts and new projects in DC reminds me that my friend and Washington, D.C. colleague Mark Del Bianco, a telecom lawyer and consultant with a golden resume, has a very fine blog, BroadbandLaw.info. See "Dubai's Brick Wall for VOIP".
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CQ on 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
From the Congressional Quarterly Weekly, here's "The '08 Race for the White House Begins", by Craig Crawford. Twenty-six candidates.
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KFB sounds off on U.S. Mideast foreign policy, terrorism.
7/21/06 video clip. This is America, where all viewpoints are considered. So should The Kid from Brooklyn testify before U.S. Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees? Why not?
Posted by JD Hull at 08:19 AM | Comments (0)
Patten: Unhappy Lawyering = Unhappy Clients.
From Britain's Justin Patten at Human Law, see "If 40% of lawyers are not happy with their career choice do you expect good client service?"
Posted by JD Hull at 12:59 AM | Comments (0)
November 15, 2006
Measuring Client Satisfaction
See Jim Hassett's two most recent posts at Legal Business Development.
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China and the new U.S. Congress.
See "China's Reaction to The Democrats Taking Congress" by Travis Hodgkins of Transnational Law Blog.
Posted by JD Hull at 05:05 PM | Comments (0)
November 14, 2006
Defendants Mounting A What?
WAC? is defense-oriented and written by leading heterosexuals so this interested us. "Why Do Defendants Always Mount a 'Vigorous' Defense?" Peter Lattman at WSJ Law Blog wants to know and suggests we all get a new and better word than "vigorous" for our SEC reports, ABA Accounting Standards No. 5 letters, GCs, the press, wives and girlfriends, and others who require ostensible accuracy combined with a show of strength. People are voting over there for a better word. Law Blog likes "robust". But we like "soulful", "lusty" and "prohibitively expensive". These are descriptive, trial-lawyerly and way manly.
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"Ten Ways Law Firms Lose a Lot of Money"
From the the always excellent Clients section of the Canadian Bar Association's Practice Link, it's here, an article by Janice Mucalov. No. 7 is "Keeping Mediocre Clients". CBA Practice Link is rich with resources on running firms and client care and retention.
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November 13, 2006
Election Law Special at Blawg Review #83
See this week's Blawg Review hosted by Rick Hasen of Loyola Law School at Election Law. BR No. 83 features an especially good mix of articles and posts on last week's mid-term elections.
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