Practice Management Blog Posts from July 29, 2010
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More summer fun: American family vacation moment.
Play loud: You remember the Griswolds, Clark and Ellen, don't you?Posted on What About Clients? on July 29, 2010 at 2:59 AM
Depositions: Use them to get Badness out in in the open.
Making a friend of Badness: Our chief writer working with Montagnard troops, Cambodia, 1968 (Photo: Paramount Pictures). Man up. Learn not to cringe. Savor the evils, the brutalities, the pain. At depositions, remember to "get The Badness in your case out in the open". Hostile witnesses. Non-hostile witnesses. See a 2008 article by Chicago triPosted on What About Clients? on July 29, 2010 at 1:59 AM
Witnesses: The problem of demeanor in international disputes.
In international arbitration and mediation, first-language barriers can be the least of your client's difficulties. How does a mediator or arbitrator arrive at a true--and fair--consensus on the meaning of ordinary verbal and non-verbal conduct by a witness? What is the significance of the "delayed answer" to a question? In one culture, delay mPosted on What About Clients? on July 29, 2010 at 1:59 AM
Writing Well: Editors
"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft." --H.G. Wells (1866-1946) "I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse." --Henry James (1843-1916)after a request by the Times Literary Supplement to cut 3 lines from a 5,000 word article. Herbert George Wells, 1908Posted on What About Clients? on July 29, 2010 at 1:59 AM
Writing Well: John Dryden
A London Renaissance man. During his life John Dryden (1631-1700) had few peers as a well-rounded English man. The major literary influence and figure of his time, Dryden was poet, critic, playwright and leader. Indeed, the period of England's Restoration is also called the Age of Dryden. Samuel Johnson, born a few years after Dryden's death, once caPosted on What About Clients? on July 29, 2010 at 1:30 AM
Bad Craziness: E-mailing "just because".
(Art: R. Steadman) E-mailing "just because" is Bad Craziness--and you might start seeing those bats. Or worse. I remember when I first got e-mail, back in the mid-1990s. I would rush home with great anticipation and dial in my 4800-baud modem and I would have four messages from four very good friends. Now I get up in the morning and go to myPosted on What About Clients? on July 28, 2010 at 2:59 AM
Men's Room: Why WAC/P's last girlfriend exited in May 2009.
And there have been no quality prospects since then. Listen to this Sunday, May 10, 2009 Charon QC podcast with Dan Hull's ex-friend Scott Greenfield. Skip up to 25:00 through 28:00. Children must leave the room.Posted on What About Clients? on July 28, 2010 at 2:00 AM
This Profession: Desperate for A New Mind.
Our thinking tends to circle around established conventions whose basis is forgotten or obscure. --Daniel Pinchbeck (1966- ) in The Return of Quetzalcoatl (2006) Unless there is a new mind, there cannot be a new line; the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness. --William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) in Paterson (1948), Book 2,Posted on What About Clients? on July 28, 2010 at 1:59 AM
This Profession: Desperate for A New Mind.
Our thinking tends to circle around established conventions whose basis is forgotten or obscure. --Daniel Pinchbeck (1966- ) in The Return of Quetzalcoatl (2006) Unless there is a new mind, there cannot be a new line; the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness. --William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) in Paterson (1948), Book 2,Posted on What About Clients? on July 28, 2010 at 1:59 AM
Anonymity on the Net: Peter Friedman Weighs In.
Located in a Midwestern American city that has hatched some of the best, oldest and most enduring law firms ever built, Case Western Reserve's School of Law in Cleveland continues to be a first-rate place. Associate Professor Peter Friedman interests us for that and three additional reasons. In fact, he's commanded our attentions for some months now.Posted on What About Clients? on July 28, 2010 at 1:38 AM
Anonymity on the Net: Peter Friedman Weighs In.
Friedman: A Man in Full Located in a Midwestern American city that has hatched some of the best, oldest and most enduring law firms ever built, Case Western Reserve's School of Law in Cleveland continues to be a first-rate place. Associate Professor Peter Friedman interests us for that and three additional reasons. In fact, he's commanded our attentPosted on What About Clients? on July 28, 2010 at 1:38 AM
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My fiance's check is DD into a local credit union. Bank seems to have a pattern of "invisibly holding" charges from the debit card until just HOURS before his DD is processed (and this is after hours, of course). Over th
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I am being accused of hitting a 7 yr old child with my car, but I honestly don't think I hit the child. The Child was never knocked down, ran around my car to go back to ball practice, and was walking around with the par
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