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May 11, 2012
China in Africa: Is China putting the hurt on Africa's free press?
Western media has long given Africa a consistently negative--if indeed often painfully accurate--portrayal as troubled, poor, corrupt and violent. Is China, now Africa's biggest trading partner, engaged in a new public relations crusade to counter that image? If so, is China's new campaign an even-handed one? See at Deborah Brautigam's China in Africa "Africa's Free Press Problem: Is China Causing It?"
From Henry Hall's China Africa News
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
May 10, 2012
What do GCs, CEOs and savvy clients want from a law firm?
1. Quarterbacks. Not mechanics and generic dweebs.
2. Value. Not reduced rates.
3. Verve. Not risk aversion.
4. Straight Talk. Not lawyer-accountant wank-speak.
5. Sane Writing. No typing with a lisp, either.
Lord Chief Justice John ("Pompous") Popham, 1603.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 01:00 AM | Comments (0)
May 07, 2012
One possible business model: Choose your clients. Research them. Snipe.
Read at Simple Justice Scott Greenfield's masterfully-titled post "The Message of 500 Clients". And then read my comment:
Stick a fork in Hull McGuire PC. As Scott well knows, on clients, we snipe. We choose. We go after at most 2 new clients a year after we research them like you would research a stock. We consider it a success if we get one of them as a client in 18 months after the first face-to-face meeting. The rest is repeat biz. Rather be a street person than market or practice any other way. Just one possible way to look at volume in clients.
500-Clients Specimen.
Posted by JD Hull at 06:15 PM | Comments (0)
May 06, 2012
Love and hope and sex and dreams.
The winners? They refused to follow other people's bad scripts.
--KLK, All Over Manhattan Tonight
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