The J. of the Legal Writing Inst., Vol. 15, 2009 at 266, tells about asking law school students to try haikus. Seventeen syllables. I tried my hand. In-house lawyers, Silos or teams, Rules but people, Always altering Yes, Rees, stick to prose.
Ten more embedded metaposts (See my post of Aug. 14, 2009: Part XXXVII), each conjoined with the number of its back references. Benchmarks hyperpost (See my post of July 19, 2009: ten metaposts on benchmarks.). Email effectiveness rules (See my post of Aug. 26, 2009: 30 e-mail effectiveness tips with…
Back references to metaposts on this blog. In the first 224 posts after number 4,500, I included back references to 215 metaposts. That is nearly one per post. Since I have 370 metaposts, almost anything I write could point to a previous collection of posts. At times, now, I grow…
An exercise for the mind is to catalogue beliefs held by lawyers legal departments that are myths, that serve some felt need but are inaccurate, that exhibit prejudice or wishful thinking not borne out by facts. For example, the easy and ample availability of comparably-skilled lawyers (See post of Aug.…
The CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution www.cpradr.org is a non-profit initiative of general counsel, law firms and legal academics “whose mission it is to install alternative dispute resolution (ADR) into the main stream of legal practice.” More than 4,000 operating companies have committed to its Corporate Policy…
Visitors from 29 non-US sites in the last 100. About 80 percent of the readers of this blog come from the United States. But a significant number of international visitors also come. For example, SiteMeter tells me that of the last 100 visitors (at about 9:00 AM on Friday, August…
The importance to companies of their brands and trade protections is evident (See my post of May 27, 2008: intangibles like trademarks account for 1/3rd of value of companies; Aug. 14, 2005: 248,000 new applications for trademarks filed with the U.S. PTO in 2004; May 28, 2005: online applications for…
Ten more embedded metaposts (See my post of July 26, 2009: Part XXXVI), each coupled with the number of its back references. Bad behavior by managers II (See my post of March 31, 2009: nine more posts on poor behavior.). Employee satisfaction (See my post of Aug. 13, 2009: employee…
More poll results about the positions of readers – have you taken the poll? Since about July 15th, 81 readers have taken my little poll about positions. As of Aug. 11th, poll takers from law departments rose from 58% to 63%; those from law firms dropped from 22% to 16%;…
Having published recently by first two blook reviews, (See my post of July 30, 2009: Leigh Dance book; and Aug. 5, 2009: Laura Empson book.), fairness urged me to recognize another pair of books. First is a UK-published book that covers many topics, Ann Page and Richard Trapp, Managing External…