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January 23, 2009
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Redux: Ernie's Churchyard Find.
Ernie From Glen Burnie. Not his real name--but he's a real person, a D.C. lawyer with a golden resume everyone speaks about in low tones (which he thinks is pathetic). We like to protect him. He made partner a long time ago, still tries cases everywhere, and writes well-received fiction on the side; so he probably doesn't care. Some nights he can be found at The Old Ebbitt, in the smaller bar in the back left, drinking a lot of coffee, so maybe you've already met him. He's rarely alone. Women like him. He doesn't eat much. He talks a lot, in a lyrical yet measured way. Ernie always makes a good point, however he has to make it. See The 7 Habits of Highly Useless Corporate Lawyers.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 12:21 AM | Comments (0)
January 22, 2009
Cross-cultural mediation: "Don't have a list of do's and don't's."
At the award-winning podcast series sponsored by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR), hear General Electric in-house lawyer Mike McIlwrath interview mediator and author Jenny Beer, who over 25 years ago co-authored the cross-discipline guide, The Mediator's Handbook. The topic: "Setting up the Cross-Cultural Mediation". Negotiators, Beer says, "need a mindset--not a list.” This is program 56 in CPR's International Dispute Negotiation series. The January 9 interview with Beers is here, and follows a longer interview McIlwrath conducted of Beer in September 2008. Based in Florence, Italy, McIlwrath is Senior Counsel, Litigation for GE Infrastructure-Oil & Gas.
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January 21, 2009
It may be one for the ages: the inauguration address.
To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West — know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
The text as delivered is here. But forget about the reaction of the crowd, and the sound of Obama's voice, if you saw or heard it. Forget about Justice Roberts' muffed lines just before it happened. It should be read, whether you voted for the 44th President or, like me, you did not. Ted Sorensen writes in UK's The Guardian that he was moved by the speech and the event--and that is indeed praise. If you're an American lawyer and don't know who the 80-year-old Sorensen is, stop eating and watching television for five minutes, and find out. Finally, consider at Legal History Blog the notion that The District of Columbia is "the window through which the world looks into our house".
(Photo: Paul Schutzer)
Posted by JD Hull at 11:52 PM | Comments (0)
January 19, 2009
American Signage: Bed-Stuy, Seattle and Johnstown PA
New York Times: "‘Not Much of a Block,’ but It’s Named for a King". The Seattle Times: "Dream Remains Alive on Seattle's Street Named for King". The Tribune-Democrat: "Johnstown Bridge Renamed in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.".
NYT: Martin Luther King Jr. Place, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
Posted by JD Hull at 11:16 PM | Comments (0)
Popular election of state judges in America: are we done yet?
For watchers of American state judiciary systems, on Tuesday, March 3, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. (No. 08-22). See summary and list of amicus briefs in West Virginia Business Litigation.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 12:07 AM | Comments (2)
January 18, 2009
Andrew Newell Wyeth (1917–2009)
"Weatherside", 1965
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