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May 19, 2007
Queen City
Queen City, Clean City, City-State, the City of Seven Hills, and very well-kept secret, Cincinnati, Ohio was the only town my family lived in for more than three years in a row when we were "growing up moving" around the East and the Midwest in the 1950s and 1960s. It has everything you'd want: attractive, highly educated, family friendly, business oriented, lightly industrial and German-efficient yet friendly. It has and always has had a vibrant arts community. Quirky fact: for a while, lawyer Jerry Springer was our mayor.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:36 PM | Comments (0)
May 18, 2007
Francois Fillon, new French prime minister
No--not Francois Villon, the 15th century French poet and vagabond. This is a much different Francois: an experienced French politician and reformer with strong ties to Britain, including a Welsh lawyer wife. So see Spiegel International for a report about Francois Fillon, just appointed prime minister by the new French president, Nicolas Sarkozy. French conservatives expect Fillon, who has a more moderate style than Sarkozy, to be smooth, pro-business and a talented PM.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:47 PM | Comments (0)
International arbitration: dealing with delay
Save this if you litigate abroad. "Faster, cheaper and better" is not, unfortunately, every business litigant's experience in obtaining and enforcing awards in international arbitration. But even under the current scheme of laws, conventions and treaties, arbitration still makes sense. So our friend Mel Simburg of Simburg Ketter, the Seattle member of the International Business Law Consortium, has written "Delay and Sanctions in International Arbitration." Simburg's guide is our kind of article by a fine lawyer. In 8 pages, Simburg (a) takes us through the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act, the New York Convention of 1958 (on the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards), and the procedural rules of UNCITRAL, WIPO and ICDR (international AAA), and then (b) offers practical devices and strategies for moving arbitrations along, combating delay and the use of sanctions.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 03:20 AM | Comments (0)
May 13, 2007
Legal Sanity and Blawg Review #108
New York's Arnie Herz is a thinker, writer, seer, and a guy my Mom in Ohio wants me to be more like. He will be hosting Blawg Review #108 tomorrow at his fine Legal Sanity blog. Arnie is and always has been light years ahead of most lawyers on issues of law firm culture, workplace and mentoring. He knows that great lawyers are great people: the ones who can grow. His theme at BR #108 will be creating successful business relationships in the law. In the meantime, see this recent Legal Sanity post, one that people I barely know keep e-mailing to me, called "Why Evolution Doesn't Favor Lawyers Who Are Jerks."
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