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June 04, 2011
Cross-Border Unbundling and Signs of Times: "Need to litigate in Germany?"
Got Grϋndlichkeit? A telling ad appears in this month's Washington Lawyer magazine. It's placed by a Frankfurt-based lawyer--a Total Teutonic Betty, too, based on her photo--with 25 years experience in corporate law, finance and commercial transactions as well as in contentious work. Affiliations (and ads) like this were not mainstream until relatively recently. It reminds you, among other things, that business is increasingly global and that Europeans speak both fine UK English and American English. It begins: "Need to litigate in Germany but have no office there?". It goes on in compelling detail. Apart from the merits and value this particular lawyer could or could not add to a project, think about what this kind ad represents.
Oberlandesgericht Zweibrücken, Higher Regional Court Zweibrücken,
located in Zweibrücken, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany.
Posted by JD Hull at 02:39 PM | Comments (0)
June 03, 2011
The Unbearable Lightness of Lawyers.
Risk-aversion can be annoying. Get off your knees. Tell the client what it can do, too. What it should do. Take a stand. And just say it. See "The 7 Habits of Highly Useless Corporate Lawyers" and "Just Say it: More Good Things on Good Writing".
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
June 02, 2011
Sarah Kate Silverman for Congress in 2012 (NH CD1): "Unforgivable" if she doesn't run.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 12:00 AM | Comments (0)
May 29, 2011
Doing Duke: John Chambers does Commencement.
Sunday, May 15, 2011. An "R" who admires Bill Clinton. The light bathroom humor worked. Reputed to be a fine fly fisherman, too.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:37 PM | Comments (0)