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September 16, 2011
Where Do You Practice Law? In ClientTown? Or LawyerTown?
"The Lawyers", circa 1855, Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)
Are the three gentlemen in Daumier's famous sketch "client-centric" or merely "lawyer-oriented"?
We will never know. WLCs, maybe? A WLC is a Weak or Wimpy Local Counsel engaged by your firm and/or your client for litigation or other contentious matters who, after being hired, instinctively, routinely, and most often inadvertantly place their relationships with local lawyers and other players in their jurisdiction ahead of the interests of your shared client, which is almost always "an outsider".
Signature noise: "I have to practice in this town." They are akin to rocks, plants, and household appliances. They are legion. They don't get it. Avoid them and hire someone else (or shop for a different forum). See our world-famous October 2008 piece "Weak/Wimpy Local Counsel: The Next Epidemic?".
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Marrakesh in Egypt: Did You Ever Love a Gifted Woman?
He told me that the secret to marrying a successful woman was to realize that you had married not just the woman but the talent, too.
My Marrakesh, an elegant mix of photography, writing and charm by an American girl living in Morocco, deserves several of your real-world minutes every day. See this December 2010 post: "Cairo, Egypt: A Tale of Love and Egyptian Journalist Louis Greiss". Learn, too, something about the regal actress Sanaa Gamil, who died in 2002.
Photo by M. Montague
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September 12, 2011
Well, here's our 9-11 Ten Years After Post: American Life, Fear and Squeak-Squeak.
Once they let you get away with running around for ten years like a king hoodlum, you tend to forget now and then that about half the people you meet live from one day to the next in a state of such fear and uncertainty that about half the time they doubt their own sanity. Their boats are rocking so badly that all they want to do is get level long enough to think straight and avoid the next nightmare.
--HST, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail (1972)
Americans learned nothing--i.e., zilch--from the Tragedy of 9-11-01. We still prefer to live in our own remote, insulated caves. Hey, we like it in here.
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September 11, 2011
Egypt. Ireland. America. Iraq. Ancient Greece. Watts. South Boston. Tribal Warfare is What Humans Do.
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