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May 31, 2008
Saturday's Charon: The PM feels your pain.
Charon QC gets a cold call from Britain's Prime Minister in "Gordon cold calls British public…Hello…is that Charon?…".
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Big Dog finally hosts Blawg Review.
Old China Hand, fellow ex-Midwesterner and another guy who travels too much, Dan Harris of China Law Blog and Harris & Moure hosts Blawg Review this Monday. Expect the usual Harris: insightful, innovative, feisty and cosmopolitan. He wants us all to make money in China. And he owes me a one-on-one game of hoops--but I can take this Hoosier.
Posted by JD Hull at 12:26 AM | Comments (0)
Holden Oliver's first trip to Pittsburgh.
Summer Clerkship. I've not lived anywhere but Europe, Massachusetts, Manhattan and Palo Alto. So there were problems.
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May 30, 2008
The Paris Blog
The Paris Blog is a group site in English by Americans, Canadians, Brits and Frenchmen, mainly expatriates, who write about "the daily intricacies of life in Paris". It's edited by Laurie Pike, like me a Midwesterner who lived in California for a while. There's a bit of everything/anything about La Ville lumière: arts, politics, neighborhoods, French culture, work (no jokes please). We liked "Cops Bust Gypsies at Notre Dame"--but how could such a thing happen on ground zero for things French?--and "Festival of Pain" (bread, not physical suffering), about an outdoor makeshift bakery and "bread-fest" just across the Seine.
Ille St. Louis, island of dreams
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Corporate Japan closes up.
In "Power Struggles", London-based The Economist reports that Japan is excluding foreign investors and may be "the most closed market in the industrialised world".
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May 29, 2008
Update: Blawgs Abroad--75 more non-U.S. blawgs and sites.
Americans do tend to think that the rest of the world is rather far away and not terribly important.
--Delia Venables, UK legal IT commentator, in UK's Law Gazette, March 2, 2006.
Today at What About Clients? we add another 75 international blogs to our Directory of Non-U.S. Blogs on the left-hand side of this blog (scroll down a little). We started the Directory in early 2006; see here, here and here, a/k/a the World Cup Blawg Review. It now has nearly 300 sites, and the list of course belongs to everyone. Our last update was in August 2007. Since then, we've worked to discover more international legal weblogs, sites and resources. We list the good ones: active, high quality and preferably in English. We'd have done this earlier--but clients and our boss The Timesheet got in the way.
An important thank you is in order to five important sources: pioneer Bill Gratsch and his Blawg.com (US), Diane Levin (US), Dan Harris (China/US), Guy Kawasaki (Universe), and Jordan Furlong (Canada).
The new blogs come from 26 countries, including Belgium, Malaysia, Romania, Sri Lanka and Turkey. Are there more out there?
Argentina: 4
Blog de Mediacion, Daniel Martinez Zampa
eMediacion by AcuerdoJusto, Franco Conforti
Resolución Electrónica de Disputas, Alberto Elisavetsky
Secretos del Meliador Exitoso, Nora Curtis, Franco Conforti and Nora Femenia
Australia: 4
Adelaide Criminal Defence Blog, Simon Slade
Australian Mediation Association, Callum Campbell
Open and Shut, Peter Timmins
Belgium: 1
Réseau Médiation, Dominique Foucart
Brazil: 2
Brazilian Arbitration Law, Pedro Alberto Costa
Gestão de Conflitos Familiares
Canada: 16
bc business law blog, Meldon Ellis
The Bizop News, Michael J. Webster
Class Actions in Canada, Ward Branch
Law Firm Web Strategy, Steve Matthews
A Mediator's Calling, Ken Bole
NALP Canadian Directory of Legal Employers
Perspectives from a Mediator/Arbitrator, Stephen Raymond
Precedent: The new rules of law and style, Melissa Kluger
Vancouver Law Librarian Blog, Steve Matthews
The Work it Out Blog, Allan Revich
Workplaces That Work, Lynne Eisaguirre
Chile: 1
Servicios de Mediacion, Paola Aedo Peralta
China: 3
Chinese Negotiation - Negotiating in China, Andrew Hupert
Go East - Outsourcing to China, Dean Stevens
England: 6
Communication and Conflict Blog
Conflict Resolution Network UK
The Mediation Times, Amanda Bucklow
European Union: 2
The Blog of European Patent Law
France: 3
L'Observatoire du Droit Panameen et du Droit International, Pierre Julie Ivan Alonso
Parliaments Ideas, BsiLi AdeL
Germany: 8
Beckmann und Norda Rechtsanwälte Bielefeld
Die Maschinistin, Kirstin Nickelsen
Institut Sikor, Marianne & Markus Sikor
Kleinblog, David Klein
Konfliktmanagement, Mediation & Dialog, Dr. Simen Joachim and colleagues
Master of Mediation, Christoph Stroyer
Mediation Solutions, Natalia Martin Rivero and Axel JC Brodehl
Unternehmensjurist.de, Stefan Deyerler
India: 2
Legal Process Outsourcing, Rahul Jindal
Technology Law India, George Vivek Durai
Indonesia: 1
Israel: 1
Italy: 1
Malaysia: 1
Malaysian Mediation, Chan Kheng Hoe
Netherlands: 2
Fer Kousen Conflictmanagement, Fer Kousen
ComparativeLawBlog, Jacco Bomhoff
New Zealand: 2
Mediation vBlog Project, Geoff Sharp
My Weblog, James South
Peru: 1
Poland: 2
TogetherResolve, Emmy Irobi
Portugal: 5
Associação de Mediadores de Conflitos
Conflito: uma oportunidade!, David Santiago Pires
Justiça Restaurativa em Portugal
Romania: 1
Singapore: 1
The Negotiation Guru, Jens Thang
Spain: 3
El Blog Derecho Público de Sevach
blog solomediacion.com, Miquel Tort
todomediacion.com, Isabel Medina
Sri Lanka: 1
ICT for Peacebuilding, Sanjana Hattotuwa
Turkey: 1
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May 28, 2008
The Greatest Generation interviews the Lamest.
Or, Work much? About a 60 Minutes segment on Generation Y, originally aired in November and updated this past Sunday, Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice has a few thoughts in "Millennials: It's Awesome to be Us". Excerpt:
One of my issues with 60 Minutes is that, while they court controversy well, they rarely challenge the self-serving statements of their interviewees directly. As the video shows, the consultants who are busily earning some very good fees from companies by advising how to make Millennials "feel good" about their work, the only thing that seems to matter to the members of this group, attribute some wonderful qualities to them.
Are Millennials really so wonderful? Let's see: They're well educated, but inherently lazy. They are techno-savvy, but don't see themselves as serving anyone but themselves. They are the most talented generation? Says who? Are they talented in treating your clients with respect? Not that I can see. And they have to be taught how to eat with a fork and knife? They have to be cajoled into showing up for work every day?
Ah, the new Slackoisie.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Fun new game: MSNBC's GOP Veepstakes.
Click above to play new VP game with MSNBC's Chuck Todd and David Gregory. Our pick and prediction is lawyer Rob Portman, 53, not nationally known, but a talented Bushie and conservative who goes down well with the "real" GOP rank and file, which has been grooming him for years. With roots in southern Ohio's Republican "Taft country", Portman's been a Cincinnati congressman, and both U.S. Trade Representative and Director of the Office of Management and Budget under George W. Bush. That's an exemplary resume for a relatively young guy. Long-term weak point: he has hardly any enemies, which makes you wonder about him.
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International Dispute Negotiation: Asian Tiger Singapore
Listen to IDN's latest podcast, No. 27, "Mediating from Singapore: An Interview with Christopher Lau". In this segment, GE's Mike McIlwrath and Lau talk about how to find the right mediator in Singapore. And they talk about critical cultural and historical traits that may make Singapore different--different from, say, South Korea, Hong Kong and mainland China. Lau is a senior counsel in the Singapore office of the London-based barristers' chambers of 3 Verulam Buildings.
Posted by Brooke Powell at 11:52 PM | Comments (0)
May 27, 2008
Veni, Vidi, Venti
Stephen Albainy-Jenei at Patent Baristas is hosting this week's Blawg Review #161 in honor of "those who have fought and died for our freedoms." We think BR #161 is among the most comprehensive, thoughtful and quality Blawg Reviews presented this year.
Posted by Brooke Powell at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
"Do work that changes the way clients think about lawyers."
That's Rule Four from our 12 rules of client service.
Let's not kid ourselves. Why "try to exceed expectations" when the overall lawyer standard is perceived as low to mediocre? Why not overhaul and re-create the whole game?
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 12:55 AM | Comments (0)
U.S. still most competitive economy.
For 15th year in a row. AP: "Swiss survey: US maintains edge in competitiveness". Excerpt:
Asian tigers Singapore and Hong Kong ranked just behind the U.S., as they did last year. Switzerland jumped two places to fourth, while Luxembourg rounded out the top five most competitive national economies, said the Lausanne, Switzerland-based, IMD business school, publisher of the World Competitiveness Yearbook.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 12:30 AM | Comments (0)
Warren Buffett on recession: "Long and deep".
According to Reuters:
BERLIN - The United States is already in a recession and it will be longer as well as deeper than many people expect, U.S. investor Warren Buffett said in an interview published in German magazine Der Spiegel on Saturday. [more]
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 12:00 AM | Comments (0)
May 25, 2008
Saturday and Sunday's Charon
London's Charon QC, a man with a velvet voice, was kind enough to interview a Paris-bound WAC? last year in London near the Marble Arch, aided by his stunning 26-year-old sound assistant, and we've been intimate friends ever since. I've grown close to Charon as well. The lawyer-prof-writer does take time away from interviews and lengthy stays at The Bollo and The Swan to write his well-known blog. He generally writes a review of the past week in his Weekend Review and recently introduced Charon after dark... Tonight he nods to London's new eccentric young mayor, Boris Johnson, an Etonian*, and muses on "The Thirteen Horsemen from Eton".
*An Etonian is a person who attended Eton, which is a boarding school for young men in Britain and has produced English statesmen for nearly 600 years. Eton is a bit like the fine American private boarding schools, Phillips Andover, Deerfield or The Hill School, except it's "public"--and with far more extensive and imaginative cross-dressing. (The new London mayor, in that respect at least, is normal.)
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