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Lawyers and who else?
A Look Back, A Look Ahead. Last year today, I was doing research for what would become an article on legal blogging. Ernie’s page was just a few days old.…
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Who knows Jack?
Great article in Slate identifying the failures of some of Jack Welch’s protogés. Moneybox editor Daniel Gross looks at Jeffrey Immelt at GE, Gary Wendt at Conseco, Paolo Fresco at…
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Another client demanding efficiency from their law firm
Microsoft’s law firm pushes lawyers to be more document efficient. In late 1999 B. Gerald Johnson, Preston Gates’s managing partner, told his lawyers to start acting more like their clients:…
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Herring on a fork
The Death of Red HerringWow. I’m in shock. I was a reader back in ’93 long before the dot com era boom and this feels like a part of the industry…
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Billboards on the 101 at low tide…
My wife and I moved to the Bay Area in 1999, while the bubble was growing. We lived less than a mile from the 101, the highway that cuts through…
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“Get my MoFo lawyer on the phone!”
If you haven’t seen Jay Leno’s video clip from last week where he dissed Morrison & Foerster, it’s pretty funny. For those that don’t know, Morrison & Foerster goes by…



