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December 15, 2007
Fancy Texas litigators in The Hague discuss global ADR.
And you thought those guys never left Houston. Listen to this interview of three fine lawyers by Michael McIlwrath, Senior Counsel, Litigation for GE Infrastructure-Oil & Gas, who is based in Florence, Italy. This is podcast No. 6 in the International Dispute Negotiation (IDN) series of The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR).
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Kane: “Sign The Damn Holiday Card!"
A Southern gentleman, careful lawyer and much-respected consultant, Tom Kane rarely loses it and swears--so you should read this one.
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December 14, 2007
Don't Bogart that story, Hillary.
Politics of Bong Hits, Part II...
MSNBC: "The Audacity of Dope". Boston Globe: Shaheen resigns. Good. NYT: Ex-Howard Dean wonk and Edwards top aide Joe Trippi catches HRC chief Mark Penn in a complicating televised act of utter classlessness. Bad--but good for Trippi. Now WAC? may want its HRC DC summit money back. And we'll gladly give back all the business cards and ashtrays we horded.
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Getting nastier: Guild files NLRB complaint against studios.
LOS ANGELES (AP)- Union officials representing striking Hollywood writers said Thursday they have filed an unfair labor practices complaint claiming studios violated federal law by breaking off negotiations [on Dec. 7].
The Writers Guild of America demanded in a statement that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers return to the bargaining so the six-week strike can be ended and thousands of workers idled by the walkout can return to their jobs.
The studios quickly responded: the "baseless, desperate NLRB complaint is just the latest indication that the WGA’s negotiating strategy has achieved nothing for working writers.” [more]
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Jim Hassett: Selling legal services is different.
The week's post from his Legal Business Development is here.
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"Is Bangalore another Silicon Valley in the making?"
Maybe. But there's more than just hype here. See at London-based The Economist "Indian Start-Ups: Entrepreneurial Push". Excerpt: "The demand in India is not so much for new technologies as for new ways to make technology affordable to the masses." Warning: You should factor in the usual dose of British condescension where India is concerned.
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December 13, 2007
Needed, inevitable, vainglorious, troublesome: Nuke Energy.
The return of nuclear power. Expect pitched battles. And give credit to USA Today for continuing (e.g., June 2005 item) to follow and cover the biggest environmental story since climate change--which, at least for now, gives nuclear power development new importance, new legs. See "How Risky Is the New Era Of Nuclear Power?".
Posted by JD Hull at 11:01 PM | Comments (0)
2008 Campaign: The Politics of Bong Hits.
Booze, pot, the antler dance and breakin' bad. Welcome to the invisible ink in the resumes of not a few talented people born between 1946 and 1963. The Associated Press reports that Bill Shaheen, a key Hillary Clinton aide, hinted to The Washington Post that HRC may try to do in Sen. Barack Obama with his admissions of drug use in his youth. See "Clinton Adviser: Obama's Drug Past A Liability". Shaheen later said he regretted the remarks; the Clinton campaign said they were not authorized. But that's like trying to un-drop recreational acid.
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December 12, 2007
The Oscars for Legal Tech
See the results reported by Robert Ambrogi at Legal Blog Watch or by Monica Bay at The Common Scold. The IT Director of the Year is John Sroka of Philadelphia-based Duane Morris. More honorees.
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Citigroup: Pandit new CEO, Bischoff new chairman
Citigroup Names Pandit CEO to Clean Up Subprime Mess
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) - Citigroup Inc. named former Morgan Stanley President Vikram Pandit as chief executive officer, ending a monthlong search after Charles O. Prince stepped down amid at least $9 billion of mortgage losses. [more]
Former U.S. Treasury chief Robert Rubin engineered the change.
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Moment at Paris Parfait
Stop by writer Tara Bradford's elegant Paris Parfait and see The Three Graces fountain at twilight in Chinon, France , the Super Bake Girl Emilia and a sign of the season on Oxford Street in London.
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Blawg Review #138
The Human Rights Day Blawg Review is hosted by PG at de novo.
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December 11, 2007
Wild Bill menaced by non-GOP robot.
'Robot' heckles Bill Clinton (MSNBC).
And from Iowa the National Journal has more details.
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Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is Argentina's new president.
Argentina's Fernandez Succeeds Husband As President
Buenos Aires, Dec. 10 (Reuters) - Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner took office as Argentina's first elected female president on Monday in a rare husband-to-wife handover Argentines hope will sustain an historic economic boom.
Fernandez, a former first lady and senator, began a 4-year term promising to continue the policies of her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, who presided over a dramatic recovery in South America's second-biggest economy. [more]
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December 10, 2007
GeekLawyer: American attorneys are "revolting".
But it's an ex-New York Governor Mario Cuomo solidarity-with-Pakistan-lawyers-so-why-not-against-George Bush thing, and we can't get a copy of the speech or a report from a non-blog news source. A couple of weeks back, Cuomo allegedly said: "If US lawyers are marching in the streets in support of the rule of law in Pakistan [referring to a NYC protest], why aren't we marching in support of the rule of law here?" Upcoming (June 30, 2008) Blawg Review host GeekLawyer, a feisty London barrister with that rare lawyer mix of guts and credentials, actually loves Yanks, mainly, sort of. Anyway, see "American Lawyers Are Revolting".
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More gratuitous holiday advice
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle."
--Philo of Alexandria (20 BC-50 AD), with a nod to writer Dan Wakefield
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EU-Africa trade summit in Lisbon ends badly, bitterly.
Lots of coverage on this today but see Edinburgh-based The Scotsman, one of the oldest papers in the UK:
Mugabe Rallies Africa Against Europe As talks End In Disarray
LISBON - Africa and Europe's first summit in seven years ended in disarray yesterday, with no agreement on the key issue of trade and a defiant Robert Mugabe telling Africa to "fight the arrogance" of European countries opposed to his regime in Zimbabwe.
The two-day summit in Lisbon did agree an action plan and a promise to meet again in 2010, but the world's largest trading bloc and its poorest continent remained bitterly divided over how to replace current economic agreements. [more]
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Yanks in Wonderland: Your IP in China
There is still only one real solution to protecting your trademarks in China: register your trademark as soon as possible. --CLB
And do it first. See at China Law Blog Dan Harris's post "The Technical Side Of China Trademark Law: Forget You Ever Read This". And see one of our favorite CLB pieces: "China Trademarks--Do You Feel Lucky? Do You?". Well, do you, punk?
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