Tuesday, April 28, 2009

The death of the billable hour continues

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This morning's ABA Journa l post on the percentage of ACC -member GCs who dislike the billable hours system (see here ) continues the ...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

Does anyone know how to fix Microsoft Word for Mac and the creation of .doc.hqx files

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My Microsoft Office for Mac keeps turning my .doc documents into .doc.hqx documents that are unreadable. Does anyone have any solutions? T...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

Reason #1,029,203,245 why I love NASA

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Our buddy Randy just sent us this info, tied into yesterday's Earth Day celebration: Celebrating 2009 Earth Day: NASA is Leading the Gre...
Thursday, April 09, 2009

And for an interesting essay on BigLaw....

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See here .
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Two of the best opinion pieces published in the last few weeks

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Jake DeSantis's A.I.G. resignation letter ( here ) and Nassim Nicholas Taleb's piece in this morning's Financial Times, list...
Monday, March 23, 2009

It's a textbook! It's a weapon!

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Richard Pachter of the Miami Herald has this to say ( here ) about our second edition of the Enron book . Although he missed a letter of ...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

A horrifying website--and an update

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My dad and my friend Seymour called my attention to this site, jewwatch .com, I was appalled. There's a petition to remove the site fro...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

DePaul's upcoming Biz & Comm L J Symposium

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Seventh Annual DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal Symposium Into the Sunset: Bankruptcy as Scriptwriter of the Dénouement of Finan...
Sunday, March 08, 2009

And another great idea for the economy

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In response to this post ( here ), one of our best friends suggested the following: Here's my plan: (1) stimulate the economy by increas...
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Friday, March 06, 2009

BRAVO, Race to the Bottom Blog!

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The Race to the Bottom ( http://www.theracetothebottom.org/home/covering-churchill-v-university-of-colorado.html ) is going to cover the tri...
Thursday, March 05, 2009

A hat tip to John D. Geanakoplos and Susan P. Koniak

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This morning's New York Times op-ed by John Geanakoplos and Susan Koniak ( here ), Matter of Principal , is right on point: without re...
Wednesday, March 04, 2009

The Van Niel mortgage proposal

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So I was talking with Jeff Van Niel this morning, and he came up with a simple and effective mortgage proposal for the rest of us--those of...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Can ANYONE in Las Vegas reach Rowlands News Service?

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I am one of those people who loves reading newspapers--in print, not just online. And for the past month, I have been trying to reach Rowlan...
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Friday, February 27, 2009

Dan Filler's very cogent observations on recent big firm layoffs

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See here for his post, over at The Faculty Lounge .
Monday, February 23, 2009

My letter to the Nevada Legislature

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Each of us can weigh in on Nevada's budget. Here's a text version of what I've sent. To my colleagues in the Nevada Legislature:...
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Congrats to Rice U students Faheem Ahmed and Anish Patel!

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Rice University students Faheem Ahmed and Anish Patel won the right to represent mtvU at last night's Academy Awards. BRAVO, Faheem and...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

Let's play "connect the dots"

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I read these three pieces in today's local paper: Gibbons'[s] budget would kill higher education ( here ), Drop, drop, drop . . . ....
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Our second edition of the Enron book (Enron and Other Corporate Scandals: The Corporate Scandal Reader, 2d) is on Amazon now.

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Jeff did the cover art (see here ), and the link is here .
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I am, apparently, still a "bargain."

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See here .
Friday, February 20, 2009

Want to see my personal trainer, Jeff Monroe, and his wife, Priscila Monroe, on my gym's website?

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Click here and then click on "guests." For Jeff's ad, see here .
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