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Jake Tapper’s profile in Salon yesterday was another solid piece fleshing out details of Dean’s candidacy. It’s a lengthy piece that both reinforces some stereotypes (“the most liberal of the Democratic front-runners”) while at the same time tries to give Dean chance to counter with his side of the story. (“I don’t mind being characterized as…

Just noticed that Ernie just went over 100,000 page views at his blog. I believe this settles it: Ernie is the best Swedish/Panamanian lawyer blogger on the planet. 31. Ernie the Attorney100,093   Seriously, congratulations Ernie! You continue to impress!

An absolutely fantastic article in next week’s New York Magazine outlines Dean’s growing appeal as a Democratic candidate. (Thanks to Jason Rothstein for the link.) Perhaps most interesting is the collection of quotes from Democratic establishment types: George Soros (billionaire philanthropist): “Howard Dean impressed me as a serious candidate with a broad vision and a…

I am thoroughly stunned at the brazen efforts to erode basic civil liberties currently going on in Washington. “But we’re at war!” say they. Way back when I was a sophomore in high school (1986, for those keeping score at home), I wrote a paper on ex parte Milligan. It was this case that showed…

Run, don’t walk, and visit this post by Deborah McMurray about the lessons not to learn from Brobeck’s demise. Deborah is one of my co-authors (for The Lawyers Guide to Marketing on The Internet, the book whose blog she posted this to), and I think her post is one of the most cogent to come out…

So says Emmett Tyrrell, the founder of The American Spectator. (Yes, that American Spectator.) Turns out that Tyrrell and Dean did a TV show together in Montreal called The Editors while Dean was governor in Vermont. Tyrrell was writing about a perceived gaffe by Kerry – wearing an apparently leather jacket with a fur collar…

BBC America is a great channel. What a shame you can’t get it in the UK. And just saw Coupling for the first time. What a fantastic show. Adding it to the Tivo subscriptions as we speak.

Lawyers are finding that Brobeck’s dissolution is going to dog them for a while: Partners may not only lose their capital contributions — typically worth hundreds of thousands of dollars — but could be forced to fork over additional money to pay off the firm’s current debt of approximately $55 million. In addition, partners also…

As summarized in Hildebrandt Headlines: As Brobeck Phleger & Harrison closes its doors today, many of its lawyers have already found new homes. Approximately 60 partners are joining Morgan Lewis & Bockius, which is allowing them to defer putting in capital for two years. A group of 18 corporate lawyers from Brobeck’s Silicon Valley office…

Courtesy of MyDD.com is this nugget, suggesting that Arizona and Illinois may become more important in the Democratic primaries. With the very real possibility of the field rising to double digits (Lieberman, Kerry, Gephardt, Dean, Edwards, Moseley-Braun, Sharpton, Kucinich, Hart, Graham, Clark, Dodd, and Biden), it will be good to broaden the field to those…