For the 30 days preceding July 24, 2011, SiteMeter shows the web pages ranked by visitors they directed to my blog. Towering over all other sites is Law.com (245 referrals), in part reflecting the fact that this blog stands as one of the Law.com blog family and my posts circulate…
Charles Darwin scrupulously tried to address the criticisms he recognized would follow the publication of his revelations on evolution. He bent over backwards to honor all attacks he could anticipate. That style, once called the “habit of sympathetic summary,” philosophers now refer to as the “principle of charity.” Summarize a…
If you would like to receive my no-cost newsletters, click on the notice to the right and enter your name and e-mail address. This issue went to 367 subscribers. As with my previous newsletters, I looked to my readers to decide what to write about. The spoke through Feedburner, which…
And the seasons they go round and round, so I combed through the 120 posts that I picked in the last twelve months as the best of a month. That covered the posts of June 2010 through June 2011. My goal was to code the posts and then see what…
Here are my choices for the most interesting posts from two months ago. Sorry, it’s perfectly fine if a firm sets a fee based on estimated hours of work (May 8, 2011) Estimated hours represent a solid basis for a flat fee. Moreover, a flat fee, however derived, differs enormously…
Just shy of three years after I started this blog, I realized that I had created at least 10 metaposts – collections of at least six posts on a topic. So, on Feb. 3, 2008, I published my first group of what I called embedded metaposts, and published three more…
Claims management (See my post of June 14, 2011: management of claims with 11 references.). Contracts work core to in-house counsel (See my post of June 16, 2011: core function of inside lawyers is contracts with 13 references.). Contract practices (See my post of June 14, 2011: practices related to…
For online, tech-savvy lawyers of law departments, one of the ways to keep abreast is Twitter. For example, the posts on this blog appear there under my Twitter handle @ReesMorrison. The headers and text compress automatically through some magical software that I don’t pretend to understand. With somewhat fewer followers…
Studies have shown that conservative bloggers cite other conservative blogs and include links to them in their blog rolls; liberal bloggers likewise segregate their references and citations. This point Cass Sunstein makes in Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge (Oxford 2006) at 190. A test of this proposition would be…
An article in the Acad. Mgt. Learning & Ed., March 2011 at 41, distinguishes between “explanatory sciences and design sciences. The explanatory paradigm, as predominately followed in business schools, is concerned with understanding what is, while design science (as predominates in medicine and engineering) is concerned with what should be.…