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July 07, 2007
Live Earth: Saving planet, WAC? duck-walks soulfully in Chicago Marriott; hotel staff upset.
Hull McGuire is torn. We love people, animals, plants and the outdoors. Yet with one notable exception, we are mostly Republican types with several longstanding industrial clients; for money, the more the better, we represent and defend entities which "spill and/or emit things" into the environment. We think it's challenging and interesting work. We don't care what you think about it.
You just never know these days what humans who are lawyers will do. But no matter what your politics are on the environment, do tune into Live Earth tonight or on encore nights on Sundance or Bravo! or any number of cable channels. Concerts are in New York (well, Giants Stadium in NJ, where Al Gore appeared), London, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hamburg, Johannesburg and Rio de Janeiro.
At the London event, Madonna in a semi-formal black dress jumped up and down with an electric guitar. In New York, and even better, Sting and The Police did "Roxanne", which for a while (under-35 Americans need to know this) replaced the "Star Spangled Banner" as the national anthem ("You don't have to put on a red light..."). I understand that WAC?, while working on a Clean Air Act permit, and very moved, duck-walked for a good 20 minutes in his hotel room until asked to stop.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Just bulls, religion and middle-age angst
Fiesta de San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain, or the running of the bulls, dates back to 1591. But Hemingway made it way cool in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises. I've never been to it, but people I really like swear by the week-long festival and the steady intake of Rioja and beer coupled with mystique.
Despite the hype, I am intrigued. Folks from all over the world--the kind, like WAC?'s Holden Oliver, who've given up all hope of ever behaving normally in public--go there every year to be menaced and chased by mean, fast and heavy semi-feral animals through the streets. Or to see a possible goring. It is, they say, the Spanish version of the Kentucky Derby, or the Hells' Angels Labor Day Picnic.
Anyway, it began today and continues until July 14. Only 13 people have been killed since records were first kept starting in 1924. Just 13. Sign me up for 2008. Another milestone birthday that year. WAC? may just go to Spain and do himself in.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:09 AM | Comments (0)
July 06, 2007
Real Lawyering: Flash vs. Hard Work--and Clients
Here's a you-must-read gem by Carolyn Elefant at her "beat" over at Legal Blog Watch: "How Law Students Become Lawyers".
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 12:00 AM | Comments (0)
July 05, 2007
Holden's "Mr. Rogers" Contest: A Cry for Help...
Please enter Holden Oliver's damn Gen X light bulb contest. New deadline is July 9. And for inspiration see from today's WSJ "Blame It on Mr. Rogers: Why Young Adults Feel So Entitled".
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
July 04, 2007
Happy 4th--and what's a "head boy" , anyway?
On Independence Day, Americans celebrate their world-changing split from Great Britain, which arguably began in earnest on July 4, 1776. Americans and Brits, who share folkways, institutions and language, have been on speaking terms continuously for nearly 200 years, since 1814.
The rub: when we do talk to each other, there are two different English-es at play.
So in case you need it--and you will if you're a Yank who does business globally--see the English-to-American Dictionary, courtesy, once again, of our patriotic Blawg Review. NOTE: There are more differences and surprises than you might think. For instance, if you're on the blower with a good punter back in Blighty, you don't want to faff around and cock it up. Know what we mean?
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 10:28 AM | Comments (0)
July 03, 2007
It's that Muscle Boutique thing again...
While WAC? still thinks that solos face a tough time obtaining and keeping Fortune 500 clients (minimum: you need 3 full-time higher-end well-paid lawyers--each king-hell crazy about client service), we do like Susan Cartier Liebel's post "Solo and Small Firms Should Go In For the Kill", which echos some of our own usual rants re: firms between 5 and 100 lawyers serving clients normally represented by much larger law firms. And we love Susan's pluck. Her post turns on yesterday's Patrick Lamb discussion on GC dissatisfaction. Hat tip to the mysterious Editor of Blawg Review.
Posted by JD Hull at 08:44 PM | Comments (0)
July 02, 2007
Nearly Legal in London (Blawg Review #115)
Today from across the pond we have a first-rate Blawg Review (#115) hosted by London-based Nearly Legal. There's some nice coverage of both US and UK blogs here. In closing, NL wishes American readers a happy Independence Day, and: "if you feel capable of happiness, and to the rest of us, pull your socks up and stop grumbling". Quite right.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:07 PM | Comments (0)