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Published on: February 20, 2009

Four years of creating LawDepartmentManagementBlog.com

Today is the fourth anniversary of this blog and it began with 4,053 posts.. As has been my custom each year, herewith a retrospective (See my post of Feb. 20, 2006: one year and 1,000 posts; Feb. 20, 2007: retrospective on second anniversary; and Feb. 25, 2008: third birthday of the blog.).

Blook. A post early this year announced my first blook (blog book), on outside counsel management. The blook organizes and comments on almost 500 posts.

Embedded Metaposts. Starting on Feb. 3, 2008, I began publishing collections of six or more posts on the same topic as metaposts (See my post of Feb. 6, 2009: 240 metaposts.). I have now accumulated and published 25 collections of them for a total of 250 embedded metaposts. Citations to the metaposts dot my recent writings. Even a couple of hyper-posts have appeared, posts with more than five metaposts. Where will it all end?

Published on: May 24, 2006

The Inside Write Stuff – absolutes to modify and add details

By Rees Morrison

Absolutes, not the vodka of bottle-shape fame (which itself is an absolute), are phrases that look like sentences but lack the verb “be,” and let the lawyer add modifying details to a sentence. Because the absolute has its own subject, it can describe just a part of whatever it modifies.

(1) We tried to license the patent. Its value would be mostly for defensive purposes.

(2) We tried to license the patent, its value mostly for defensive purposes.