Author: Rick Klau

I’ll be wrapping up our initial fundraising effort here in Illinois (if you’re in Illinois and haven’t contacted me yet, please do so asap) in the next couple days. But there’s an update from the AP that just hit a couple hours ago indicating that Governor Dean had $157,000 on hand at the beginning of…

In The Dot-Firm’s Dot-Bomb, writer Daniel Gross lays out more on the conventional wisdom on why Brobeck failed, and tries to generalize out to the law firm market. Here are some, um, surprising assertions: “During the ’90s, law firms happily rode the technology wave without fundamentally altering their business. As associates defected to dot-coms and…

Tune in to C-Span on Sunday for clips from the “Road to the White House”: Gov. Dean spoke to a gay rights advocacy group in Charleston and visited the U.S.M.C. Recruit Depot on Parris Island. (On C-SPAN, Sunday at 6:30 & 9:30)Links will be on the video page once they’re available online.

Ahem: West Coast Law Firm Closing After Dot-Com Collapse By JONATHAN GLATER artners at the San Francisco law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison decided yesterday to wind down the firm, bringing to an end a 77-year-old Bay Area institution that rose flamboyantly and rapidly on the Internet boom. [NYTimes.com: full article] Top S.F. dot-com…

Brobeck DissolvingBrenda SandburgThe Recorder01-30-2003 Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison — just two years ago the most profitable firm in the Bay Area — is dissolving following the collapse of merger negotiations with Philadelphia-based Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. [more…]This has been in the cards a while. When you rack up $90m in debt, don’t pay your bills and…

Audio/video links updated. Swing by the Audio/Video page – I’ve added a couple historical links (August 2002 NPR profile, July 2002 NPR one hour interview) and added Friday’s Tavis Smiley show link. As always, let me know if you’ve got links to audio or video that aren’t linked here.

Added a link in the Press Page to the upcoming Newsweek article by George F. Will about Governor Dean. Overall, Will doesn’t cover new ground but does identify some rough edges in Dean’s positions – specifically, Dean’s “rhetorical retreats” on the Bush Administration/Taliban remark, and the is-it-five-justices-or-three that are “too far to the right”. (And what’s with…

As picked up by the AP: “The president continues to threaten war without making a case for war; he promises to stimulate the economy yet runs the federal budget deep into debt; and he proposes no serious health care reform.” —Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean.

Linked from the Dean2004 blog at blogspot.com, here’s a pointer to the RNC talking points on Dean.

I’m at a trade show this week, where you spend the majority of your waking hours on your feet. It feels an awful lot like Groundhog Day – except that the “day” is five minutes long and you have the same five minute conversation with hundreds of people. I saw this post by Ross Mayfield…