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June 01, 2007
German anti-Americanism, U.S. French-bashing, and soo much more.
Are we of western European stock small-minded and silly or what? From the consistently interesting and fresh Atlantic Review, a press digest with commentary written by German Fulbright alumni, see "Transatlantic Obsessions". Twenty-four comments so far to a post yesterday by Joerg Wolf, who thinks that the U.S. media needs to lighten up on how France manages its affairs, and that the German press should focus on a current world evil other than America.
It remains weird and unfortunate that the German media is soo obsessed with the United States and that the US media is soo obsessed with France. Both country's media outlets would do good to reduce the obsessions on some silly topics and cover more important issues like poverty in our own countries and around the world, wars and conflicts in Africa, how to increase energy efficiency.
Posted by JD Hull at 06:46 PM | Comments (0)
May 31, 2007
LawBlog 2007: The Pub
An associate lawyer has been playing this podcast lately. For a couple of days I wrongly assumed it was an audio of the Hells Angels 1968 Memorial Day picnic or maybe the soundtrack from Barfly, the 1987 film on low-bottom Los Angeles drunks starring Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway and the elegant South African-born actress Alice Krige. Neither. It's a post-LawBlog 2007 debauch in a London pub on May 18 starring GeekLawyer and co-counsel Ruthie and featuring the astonishingly slurred voices of otherwise reputable solicitors, barristers, journalists and academics who went to schools like Oxford and Cambridge. Anglophile WAC? is both shocked and impressed. Update: More sober coverage was offered by Rupert White of The Law Society's Law Gazette, here and here.
Posted by JD Hull at 08:28 PM | Comments (0)
May 30, 2007
Large Law Firms
Patrick Lamb and Tom Kane comment on "The Way of the Mastodon", by Sun Microsystems General Counsel Mike Dillon. That article, which appeared on Dillon's own blog last week, has attracted major attention. Update: At Legal Blog Watch, lawyer-journalist Robert Ambrogi was also impressed by Dillon's piece.
Posted by JD Hull at 09:29 AM | Comments (0)
May 29, 2007
Client Service Explained
Well, WAC? could not have said it better. For some time now at Hill & Knowlton's Client Service Insights (CSI), Leo Bottary has de-mystified the whole thing for us in 22 words in the upper right hand corner of his site. Bottary calls it Insight #1:
Put another way, client service is (1) easy to "get" (2) but hard to do--and only because very few of us will discipline ourselves to think it through and do it.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 12:04 PM | Comments (0)
May 28, 2007
Memorial Day Blawg Review
Lawyer-biker Norman Gregory Fernandez at Biker Law Blog does the honors this year in his thoughtful, knowledgeable and heart-felt Blawg Review #110. Here's a guy who appreciates one of Carl Sandburg's best poems on exactly the right day for it. The Editor of Blawg Review notes that Fernandez will be updating #110 with posts from other blogs throughout the day.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:13 PM | Comments (0)