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August 10, 2007

91% of Lawyers Unhappy about Lack of Marketing Training in Law School

Courtesy Larry Bodine's Law Marketing Portal, see this interesting Daniel Guttman article re: Buy-Laws' recent survey on lawyer satisfaction with marketing training in law school. Daniel's conclusion: "most lawyers, to use a Nixon-era phrase, are left twisting slowly in the wind." We at WAC? particularly enjoyed the comments to the survey at the end of Daniel's article.

Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:21 AM | Comments (0)

Anchorage, Alaska

627,000 people live in Alaska, and 275,000 of those are here in Anchorage. The people of Anchorage will probably consider naming their next airport after someone no longer living and capable of being investigated by the FBI.

Posted by JD Hull at 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

August 09, 2007

Johnson & Johnson sees red, sues Red Cross

From MSNBC.com, see the story here. J&J is demanding that the Red Cross stop using a red cross symbol on goods it sells to the public.

Posted by Tom Welshonce at 11:40 PM | Comments (0)

Powell secretly writing memoir on Iraq war?

Ex-Clinton wonk Sidney Blumenthal asks in Salon: Will The Real Colin Powell Stand Up?

Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:38 PM | Comments (0)

August 08, 2007

Tom Kane: Listening

Like any number of lawyers, or people you'll find in a U.S. law school, I don't listen that well, even though it's part of my job. As a first child, I was encouraged to "achieve"--but also to talk-talk-talk, not listen. In my case there are other character flaws in play too numerous or disturbing to list here. But on a bad day, and especially if I am excited about something, my poor listening skills border on both rudeness and world-class dumbness. Well, the always-even keeled Tom Kane reminds us that listening is an art. And Tom even mentions that our mutual friend Jim Hassett, who also writes and coaches on listening, turned him on to the International Listening Association. Blimey! Say what?

Posted by JD Hull at 11:29 PM | Comments (0)

August 07, 2007

Arnie Herz: It's personal.

See this one (along with the linked-to materials) by Arnie Herz at Legal Sanity. I first saw this post last week, got distracted with other things, and then was reminded again today that it's out there and how great it is by the always-vigilant Stark County Law Library Blog.

Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)

Murdoch and the "Timeses"

Hey, this is international news, and it affects YOU. In Newsweek, Johnnie Roberts writes wonderfully-entitled "Forward Into Battle". Excerpt:

With plans to expand the [Wall Street] Journal's political and international coverage, Murdoch is itching for a fight with the nation's presumed newspaper of record, The New York Times, as well as the Financial Times of London. "I want it to be more competitive with The New York Times," Murdoch told Times columnist Joseph Nocera on Saturday. Last week, after the deal was clinched, the Journal's editorial page, accusing Murdoch's critics of "commercial" and "ideological" motives, blasted the two Timeses for giving credence to concerns that Murdoch will turn the paper into a mouthpiece for his own right-wing political and business interests.

Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 10:57 AM | Comments (0)

Rule Seven: Know the Client

Here.

....Take time out to learn the stock price, industry, day-to-day culture, players and overall goals of your client. Visit their offices and plants. Do it free of charge....Devise a system to keep abreast.

Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 12:59 AM | Comments (0)

August 06, 2007

3rd Carnival of Trust

The Editor at Blawg Review is pulling double duty this week, hosting both Blawg Review #120 and the 3rd Carnival of Trust (a monthly blog carnival where selected hosts feature ten of the most interesting blog posts they can find related to trust). Make sure you read both of these great posts.

Posted by Tom Welshonce at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)

Losing it in America

AP: French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on holiday in America, loses temper with press. Reuters: Talented actor/world class player Charlie Sheen, allegedly eyeing marriage again (his 4th), loses mind. Washington Post: GAO says U.S. Defense Department loses a whole mess of guns intended for Iraqi security forces.

Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)

Sensitive Litigation Moment No. 27: When Men Were Men...

Here, folks: ADR, the old way.

Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)

Prof. Kingsfield derides again: Blawg Review #120

So you call me a son-of-a-bitch, Mr. Hart?

Yes, sir.

Well, that's the most intelligent thing we've heard today.

Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)

Strongest small business areas in US: Ah, Albany, lad, what's your secret?

Whether 250 years old or a start-up, most professional services firms in the U.S. and Europe--including most people's idea of a large law, accounting or consulting firm--are small businesses. According to BizJournals, the American markets with strongest growth of small businesses per 100,000 residents from 2000 to 2005 were the following. Note that "southern" American urban areas seem to do especially well. One exception: more wintery Albany, New York. WAC?, cursed and blessed with some damn strong Gaelic DNA, attributes this to Albany's large, colorful and hard-working American-Irish population:

Sarasota-Bradenton, Fla. 9.3%
San Diego 8.2%
Jacksonville 7.2%
Orlando 6.4%
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks, Calif. 5.3%
Miami-Fort Lauderdale 5.3%
Albany, N.Y. 5.2%
Virginia Beach-Norfolk 5.2%
Tampa-St. Petersburg 5.1%
Los Angeles 4.7%

Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:25 PM | Comments (0)

August 05, 2007

Update: New Non-U.S. Blogs

Over the last 18 months, WAC? has worked hard to discover and share with you non-U.S. blogs, sites and resources. See here, here and especially here, our "World Cup" Blawg Review of last summer. We list the good ones--active, high quality and preferably in English--on the lower left hand side of this site. Today we add more non-U.S. blogs, 136 to be exact, to our Directory of Non-U.S. Blogs, bringing the total number of non-U.S. blogs and sites to 302.

An important "thank you" is in order to the five sources of nearly all of the 136 new sites: Blawg.com (US), China Law Blog (US), Nearly Legal (UK), Charon QC (UK) and Diane Levin (US).

The new blogs come from 19 countries, including Bangladesh, Denmark and Moldova:

Argentina: 1 new site

Derecho y Tecnología, Francisco de Zavalía

Australia: 9

The Australian Professional Liability Blog, Stephen Warne

Australian Technology and IP Business, David Jacobson

IP Down Under

IPwar’s, Warwick A. Rothnie

JLU: Junior Lawyer’s Union

Lightbulb, Noric Dilanchian

Moral Dilemma, Mirko Bagaric

Small Firm and Solo Practice