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June 11, 2010
Overheard in San Francisco: The Man With No Enemies.
At the Clift on Geary Street, in the famous Redwood Room, three people are going over candidates for a high salary lateral hire to join their business.
The Boss, in his sixties, listens for a long while to a glowing report about one candidate, and then says about that candidate in a short monologue:
He's a person with no enemies in the industry?! Really? None?
Sorry, but that's not very good news. "No enemies" means we can trust him with small things, and he'll be loyal. But we can never give him anything risky or important to do. He seeks only to please. More I think about it, I don't want to even meet him.
So, who else do you have?
"Beware of the lily white."
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
June 07, 2010
Fellow Alpha know-it-alls: Get Lamb's book on Value Pricing.
And read it. "Alternative Fee Arrangements: Value Fees and the Changing Legal Market". See here and here. At this blog we still embrace the billable hour as the main event--but we do abhor "contempt prior to investigation". And we have been wrong about many things. So buy Pat's book especially if, like us, you are skeptical or largely ignorant about how it all works.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:57 PM | Comments (5)
Holden Oliver: Turning Dem we really think so.
Buy Killdozer. Dump BP stock. Lose the Law Thing. Fight the Power.
Above all: be a man/woman (you cannot be both), think your own thoughts, stand up for something or somebody, ya' big wimps.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 12:00 AM | Comments (0)