The Law Blog of Plaintiff's Attorney Max Kennerly
Even Thomas Jefferson joked about lawyers being paid by the word; for hundreds of years, we’ve been paid to work in words yet terrible at doing so effectively.
Sure, it’s not necessarily our fault — a lot of our work is awfully complicated, and we’re held to peculiar standards that often require we use specific…
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
—Shunryu Suzuki in Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
By coincidence, yesterday I saw two complementary and intriguing notions.
First, from Alain de Botton:
We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of
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The almost-unbelievably amateurish nature of the recent Times Square "device" — so poorly designed and built it’s hard to call it a "bomb" — has prompted a new round of speculation as why well-organized, successful terrorist attacks aren’t more common.
Into the fray steps Bruce Schneier, the Internet’s favorite security commentator (and a distinguished cryptographer, too)…
Yesterday, after posting a link to a productivity guide recommending email be checked twice daily, I saw this leaked email from a big name at a litigation powerhouse:
Now more than ever there are many talented lawyers and law firms competing for our business. Doing really good legal work is not enough. Clients expect that
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At Rolling Stone:
Weigman’s auditory skills had always been central to his exploits, the means by which he manipulated the phone system. Now he gave Lynd a first-hand display of his powers. At one point during the visit, Lynd’s cellphone rang. "I can’t talk to you right now," the agent told the caller. "I’m
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Time for a change of pace, some outside ideas to keep our minds limber.
First, "What’s Wrong With E=MC^2?"
So what is the problem with Einstein’s mass-energy relation?
Well, to put it bluntly, there is no such thing as a mass-energy relation. What does exist is a mass-energy-momentum relation. The equation
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Following up on their own post a month ago, the dynamic defense duo at Drug & Device Law posted:
A couple of weeks ago, Herrmann noted in passing that, although many big firms now sponsor blogs, none of the ten firms with the highest profits per partner (that much-despised, but oft-cited metric) do. …
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Two posts on the same day. Sarah Randag at ABA Journal Law News Now:
Jordan Furlong wonders in a recent post at Law 21 if "we’ll soon be closing the book on one of the legal profession’s most-used and least-understood phrases of the last decade: ‘work-life balance.’ "
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Two interesting stories today.
Twittering Teens Terrorize the City:
A mob of tech-savvy teens tweeted their way into the same place in South Philly over the weekend and then went wild.
"It’s kind of a new dynamic that’s growing, with large groups of juveniles using the social networks to get out the word," said
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Since I don’t have access to President Obama’s "shortlist," I’ll rely on Intrade to tell me the most likely nominees for fill Justice David Souter’s seat on the Supreme Court.
Right now, five candidates break double-digit odds (links are to Wikipedia):
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