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May 17, 2008
London star Ms. Ruthie hosts next Blawg Review.
Ruthie of Ruthie's Law is the ultimate London law bird: (1) solicitor-writer-biker and (2) one of the few women who on earth who can make my badly jet-lagged boss--now on his way back to California--gush, rock back and forth like a mental patient, and make noises like a damn raccoon. "To most of the world, she's a saucy if talented flirt--but she melts my heart". Ruthie hosts Blawg Review this week, Monday, May 19th.
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May 16, 2008
Mike Huckabee: He's back!
And we're seeing Mike on and in the national news a lot lately. We kind of missed him, even when he was acting weird, and even though we generally have good taste. Ah, memories...
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Writing Well: The Criminal Defense Trial Lawyer Weenie-Client Exception.
New York's Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice makes a good point in "Crossed I's, Dotted T's, Enough".
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EU steps up antitrust investigation of drug makers.
BRUSSELS (Canada's Law Day) – European antitrust investigators are expanding their inquiry of the European pharmaceutical market in an effort to determine whether companies are blocking generic drug makers from getting less-expensive medicines to market quickly.
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Rjon Robbins: Failing to win.
Whether you are hunting mega-large publicly-traded or mom-and-pop small ones, to land clients, maybe you should "double your rate of failure". See Thomas Watson's Formula for Success at HowToMakeItRain.com.
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May 15, 2008
Profits
Ron Paquette at More Partner Income has a 3-part series: "Partner Cost And Client Profitability".
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Holden heads to northern England, gets his solidarity thing on.
Hearing "Blackleg Miner", a 19th century Northumberland, England folk song, could make a serious, union-hating industrialist drink too much, give all his money away to orphans, and buy up all the Pete Seeger recordings in Palo Alto. Especially this version with video. Via the UK site White Rabbit:
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May 14, 2008
Persistent Cleveland
Like other Midwestern U.S. cities with manufacturing roots, it has tried to diversify. In recent years Cleveland lost TRW, Office Max, BP, and Oglebay Norton to acquisitions, mergers and re-structurings. But it's still headquarters to National City Bank, American Greetings, Eaton Corporation, Sherwin-Williams, Parker-Hannifin and Aleris International. It's become a go-to city for biotechnology and fuel cell research, led
by Case Western and the Cleveland Clinic. Jones Day (in our view, one of the few functional mega-law firms still out there, along with Skadden and a few others) started in Cleveland over 100 years ago. It has about 2300 lawyers. It's had only 7 managing partners since 1913, including the respected Dick Pogue during the 1980s and 1990s. Dean Erwin Griswold was a partner there.
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Patent reform in in the US--and business-method patents.
The Economist: America's Patent System: Methods and Madness. "The federal court charged with hearing patent appeals has hinted that it may use a case [Bilski, argued at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in DC last Thursday with 200 people present] to cut back the scope of patent protection for business methods." [more]
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May 13, 2008
China's earthquake: How you can help.
See China Law Blog and the UN's ReliefWeb. Yesterday's earthquake, China's worst in 30 years, has left at least 10,000 dead. Countless more are trapped, isolated or homeless.
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May 12, 2008
Toyota suspends southwestern China plant after quake.
TOKYO/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp. on Monday suspended production at a 13,000-units-a-year joint venture plant in Chengdu, southwestern China, after a powerful earthquake struck, killing at least 107 people. [more]
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Blawg Review #159
This week's Blawg Review #159 is hosted by Brian LaBovick at the Whistleblower Law Blog.
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May 11, 2008
BBC News: French industrial output way down.
You are holy conservators of the best things Western: ideas, art and living. But you must get back to work. Sixty-three years is too long a holiday.
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French Moroccan
Writer-photographer Maryam at My Marrakesh heads north to Casablanca.
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