Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Happy Twinkie news....

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See here and here .  I'm looking forward to being reunited with my favorite guilty pleasure.

Dinosaur or phoenix?

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There have been numerous stories about outsourcing in law practice (for example, here ), and lately, I've been reading about outsourcing...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Rats. I hate reading about stupid Marines.

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I love my Marine Corps.  (And I love my hubby, brother-in-law, father-in-law, and friends who have served.)  So it bothers me when I read op...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

One of my former Contracts students found this great link.

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If you've missed it, enjoy the contract interpretation of Bilbo's contract here .
Friday, January 18, 2013

Let's take this two-year/three-year law school proposal a step further.

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Today's New York Times has an op-ed by Dan Rodriguez and Samuel Estreicher suggesting that the third year of law school could be opti...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

Congrats to Sherri Wattenbarger!

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Sherri , who is a trial attorney for the USTP in Kansas City, MO, received the U.S. Attorney General’s Community Service A...
Sunday, January 06, 2013

You can only call it a "genius bar" if the people doing repairs are actually thinking: UPDATE.

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Normally, I love Apple Computers.  Love the products.  Love the service.  But not this time. 1/2/13:  Brought in my MacBook Pro to the App...
Friday, December 14, 2012

Dear Godiva Chocolates: No, you're actually not passionate about customer service.

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Dear Godiva: Here's what your website says about customer service : Customer Assistance We are as passionat...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

OK, that expensive book might not be a "must-read," but this one's really intriguing...

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See here .  The book'll be out on Amazon and Kindle in the not-too-distant-future.  I read it in one sitting and had a blast.

Expensive new book out (but I have an essay in it).

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See here .  This book came out of a wonderful set of conferences at the University of Edinburgh, and I owe my participation in the conferenc...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

My buddy Tim Canova just wrote a great piece about Treasury.

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See here .  Tim's one of my go-to guys about all things financial.

Ever want to be a movie producer?

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Here's your chance . 
Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Dear Law Firms: This re-post is a must-read for you.

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From law.com's Corporate Counsel site, Susan Hackett's piece, Ending the Holiday Tradition of Outside Counsel Rate-Increase Letters ...
Sunday, December 02, 2012

Yet more on Larry Mitchell's sunny op-ed on why law school is a good idea.

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On another blog ( Law School Survival Manual ), I've spent a bit of time ruminating over just what in Larry Mitchell's op-ed rubbed ...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

Happy 237th birthday to the Marine Corps!

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Happy birthday to my beloved Corps .  Semper fidelis .
Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Some advice to our elected officials, now that the election's over.

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First, some superb advice from Jack Ayer's niece ( here ).  Jack's one of the smartest people I know, and he's a heck of a good...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Thanks, Rebel Yell, for a very nice write-up.

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See here .  Shout-out to Sergei Shapoval and his professional partner, Ania Tarnowska .
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Cool video of the space shuttle Endeavour reaching its display place in L.A.

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See here .  But I'm still ticked off that Houston didn't get one of the shuttles.
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Why the deanship at the Boyd School of Law is a plum deanship--and why I'm not a candidate.

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We have just posted our ad inviting nominations and applications for the deanship here at Boyd Law (see here for ad).  I am having a marvel...
Sunday, October 14, 2012

After reading about today's extreme skydiving event....

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When I heard that Felix Baumgartner actually completed his jump ( here ), all I could think was that the dude has some serious thrill issues...