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September 12, 2009
Two Windsor Castle gargolyes
Posted by JD Hull at 11:00 PM | Comments (0)
September 10, 2009
Extreme ambitions suddenly seize Russia.
Maybe master shape-shifting first, Comrades? See Newsweek: "Medvedev's Anti-Alcohol Campaign Tries to Make Russia Sober Up". The idea is to cut the country's per capita intake of booze by 25% by 2012. Seriously, sirs, good luck with this one: a hard problem that is likely beyond cultural.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
September 09, 2009
Litigation: Two Ways of the Trial Notebook.
Originally posted September 8, 2008 from Amsterdam:
From the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, where there are Old Ones and Young Ones in their dark Monday suits: Men of all ages with shaved heads who look a lot like Moby, in different sizes. Two guys who resemble the late Hunter Thompson, only calmer. And tall trilingual Nordic women, many beautiful, none serene today, with serious faces, clutching open cell phones and tiny red laptops.
All prepare for battle this week in the mostly-down markets of the West.
Grasshopper, when you get back to the States, it's trial time again. ADR, with its frequent moments of sanity, is over. Change gears to U.S. courts. For business trials, or non-business trials, bench or jury, see for starters the outlines for Trial Notebooks, either One or Two, at Evan Schaeffer's Illinois Trial Practice. We like the latter, but please mix and match. Utilize your barely-used brain. Both sides of it.
And be advised. As Tom Hanks, or someone, once said: "There is no boilerplate in baseball". Each client, each problem to solve, each transaction, and each trial: each is wonderfully unique, and Different From The Other, whether your firm does "cookie-cutter" work or not.
(Photo: Warner Bros.)
Posted by JD Hull at 11:50 PM | Comments (0)
September 08, 2009
Remedies: More China Mistress Sex Contract Law.
Chinese courts tend to look much more at the equities of a situation than at the literal meaning of the contract or of the written laws.
Me pay you long time. See China Law Blog and "China Sex, Mistresses, And Improper Payments, And What They Mean For Your China Business Litigation. Part II, The Contracts Do Matter Edition".
Posted by Rob Bodine at 10:00 AM | Comments (0)
The 3 best damn podcast shows for business lawyers.
WAC?, and the undersigned especially, is wrong about many things. We would never have predicted that "Podcasts"--or Internet-based radio shows--would have lasted, due to competition with so many other new forms of media, both Net and not-Net. "Build it, and they will come--if they are interested enough", however, seems to be the Law of the Net.
Nor would we have necessarily expected that some of the lawyer podcast "shows" would be so consistently first-rate, and always worth our time to listen. We lawyers are notoriously late to anything novel, excellent and fun. Not so with the Art of the Podcast.
Below without question and in alphabetical order are the best three damn podcasts shows for lawyers, and especially for thinking business attorneys. Each covers or touches on more than lawyering, transactions, and courts and forums around the world; these broadcasts also take on global news, international business, the Net, new IP, and politics. Each has been around a few years, and endured through persistence, quality and continuing improvement:
1. Charon QC's Podcasts, Mike Semple Piggot, London, England.
2. CPR's International Dispute Negotiation series, Mike McIlwrath, GE, Florence, Italy.
3. Lawyer-2-Lawyer, Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi, LegalTalkNetwork, Los Angeles and Boston.
Posted by JD Hull at 12:01 AM | Comments (0)
September 06, 2009
And the girl in the 100 year old dress is...?
See Maryam's My Marrakesh.
Photos: "Mr. Maryam"
Posted by JD Hull at 08:49 PM | Comments (1)