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Two Senior UK Lawyers Knighted

Nigel Knowles and David Lewis have been knighted in the New Year’s Honours List, for services to the legal profession. Sir Nigel, joint chief executive of law firm DLA Piper, is credited with transforming DLA from a relatively small British regional law firm into one of the world's premier...

"Quote of the Week"

  From Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (ca. 56 – ca. 117,) a senator and historian of the Roman Empire. More evidence that there truly is nothing new under the sun. Hat tip to Mark Chandler, GC of Cisco, who used this quote in his luncheon speech to the Northwestern School of Law’s 34th...

Who is in recession and who not

The OECD Economic Outlook No. 84 dated November 2008 includes this very neat graphic of which nations in the world are likely to be in recession next year and which not. Blue indicates negative growth in 2009; orange indicates positive growth; white indicates zero growth and gray indicates...

Surviving the Slide

It's not often that no fewer than three of my friends are simultaneously featured in the leading article of a journal, but that is the case with Gerry Riskin, Karen MacKay and Merrilyn Astin Tarlton in the current edition of LawPro, which is a Canadian journal that features "information and...

Please help my puny brain understand ..... $7.4 trillion???

OK .... I'm stumped. I may not be an economist, but something just doesn't make sense here to my puny mortal brain. $7.4 trillion (the current total estimated cost of the economic stimulus / bailout package in the USA) is just a crazy figure (remember when it was "only" $700 billion,...

The most exciting things in business today ....

Just over 60 seconds on this videoclip from Big Think, on what the most exciting things going on in business today are. Highly relevant when thinking about what kind of world both business and otherwise will emerge as the recession passes and life goes on, and how one should be aiming the...

Post Mortems

Post mortems are never pleasant to read but if they specify the maladies that caused death in sufficient detail then sometimes they can be useful for others wishing to avoid the same fate. Here's a good one from law.com titled "Why Heller Died." Unsurprisingly, it suggests that although...

Delighted

To all my many and dear American friends, no matter for whom you voted, CONGRATULATIONS on your new President. May he keep you proud! And to Senator John McCain .... congratulations also on an honorable campaign that was well fought. Now, of course, the real work begins ....  

Thanks, Mr Taxpayer ... that will do nicely!

So, apparently $20 billion of the first tranche of $125 billion of US taxpayers money being handed to US banks is going to fund the executive bonuses. After all, they did all work quite hard through the year, the poor chaps, so I suppose that they feel one shouldn't be too hard on them for causing...

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