At a legal technology conference in New York last week, I attended a number of seminars regarding Web 2.0 and its application and uses in legal practice — specifically in law firms. A prevailing theme that emerged from many panelists ...
Read More »The pros and cons of BlackBerry technology
Having worked with a Motorola Q9C for six months, and more recently a BlackBerry Curve 8330, I’ve become rather addicted to instant telephone and text communications, and having schedules, notes, newspapers, music and photos available at the press of a ...
Read More »Napier: My brain needs to hit the gym
Ever open your mouth and spew mush? It’s happened to me a couple of times in the past few weeks. While I have had work to do the past few months, it seems since November I’ve had little but status ...
Read More »Woolner: Cap $1,000-an-hour lawyer fees while you are at it
As you may have noticed, these aren’t especially happy times for those used to the good life or those who merely get by. New York’s Rainbow Room is shutting down after 74 years as the dining room of the glamorous ...
Read More »My brain needs to hit the gym
Ever open your mouth and spew mush? It’s happened to me a couple of times in the past few weeks. While I have had work to do the past few months, it seems since November I’ve had little but status ...
Read More »Cap $1,000-an-hour lawyer fees while you are at it
As you may have noticed, these aren’t especially happy times for those used to the good life or those who merely get by. New York’s Rainbow Room is shutting down after 74 years as the dining room of the glamorous ...
Read More »CEO cult torched in crisis bonfire
The John Thain vs. Kenneth Lewis public dust-up may signal the death of a species. The once-powerful chief executive officer cult went into decline in recent years when members of the class were imprisoned for defrauding investors (Jeffrey Skilling of ...
Read More »GE’s AAA rating starts slow trip to graveyard
Oh, the sweet, saccharine smell of pretense. It looks as though the days may be numbered for General Electric Co.’s top-notch, AAA credit rating. Sure, the debt swamis at Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s haven’t cut it yet. ...
Read More »‘Davos Man’ finds BRICs of little help in crisis
The subprime crisis is containable. Asia has decoupled from the West. Europe’s banks are sound. Japan is a haven from turmoil. The worst is over. To the list of faulty bits of conventional wisdom, add that the BRICs will save ...
Read More »Torre recalls A-Rod ego and joyless Steinbrenner
Everybody’s talking about Joe Torre. About the book he wrote, coming out just two weeks before spring training begins. About how he has it in for Alex Rodriguez, maybe the most talented player in baseball and certainly the most narcissistic. ...
Read More »U.S. Supreme Court to make ruling on searching students
You be the judge: School officials strip search Savanna, a 13-year-old girl, believing she possesses prescription-strength ibuprofen in violation of the school’s zero tolerance policy on drugs. Officials’ only evidence is the uncorroborated accusation of a classmate who was caught ...
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