Happy New Year may 2006 surpass even your wildest dreams.
Wishing You a Happy and Peaceful Holiday
Greetings from our largest parrot, Pekoe, from our home in Anguilla, British West Indies, who joins all of the Riskins in wishing you a Happy Holiday and wonderful 2006.
(Pekoe is an Orange Moluccan Cockatoo standing on the rail on our front porch with St Martin and St Bart’s behind in the distance… when you
Allen & Overy creates Managing Associates category
The legal profession is extremely fragmanted. There is no IBM, Ford or even Price Waterhouse Coopers in the legal profession – the mega law firms are tiny. I believe that explains why there has been so little R&D and innovation in the profession. That may be changing. According to Bruce Macewen’s Adam Smith Esq. post
First Fun – then happiness.
Anthony Cerminaro OK – I don’t want to overdo this “fun and happiness theme” but there’s lawyer Anthony Cerminaro blogging about Happiness Breeding Success. Read his post it captures the gems from the article he referred to in Live Science by the same name. The other quote I liked was:
Scientists reviewed 225
Stephanie West Allen – Don’t Deck the Clown
Stephanie West Allen After seeing my post called “Fun in a law firm? You bet!”, Stephanie West Allen has authorized me to share with you a glorious little piece of work she did in 1997 called DON’T DECK THE CLOWN悠NVITING HUMOR INTO THE LAW FIRM Have a look – Download file – there may be
Clifford Chance Managing Partner Too Rusty to Return to Practice
Peter Cornell, Managing Partner, Clifford Chance I admire 53 year old outgoing Clifford Chance Managing Partner Peter Cornell for his integrity and self awareness in saying that “his skills as a lawyer were too rusty for him to return to practice” according to an article in today’s New York Law Journal by Anthony Lin titled:
$16 Million anyone?
Well not just anyone…
DuPont, Sara Lee, Shell Oil and Wal-Mart put there money where their proverbial mouths are.
The National Association of Minority & Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) applauds these corporations for their committment to place a total of at least $16 million dollars of legal work with minority-owned law firms during
Fun in a law firm? You bet!
Managing Partners start thinking of ways to harness this little philosophical gem in your firm:
Fun is not a distraction from work or a drain on our revenue; it is the very source of both our inspiration and our value. A genuine sense of play ignites our creativity, eases communication, promotes goodwill and engenders
A New Breed of Global Superlawyers Traveling at 18,000 MPH
Follow me on a journey of logic skip a decade to 2015 when air travel may dramatically increase in speed to 30,000 km per hour or 18,000 miles per hour imagine a trip from Moscow to New York in 50 minutes or Moscow to Sydney in one hour and six minutes. (See reference
Bruce MacEwen can even make a looming strike fascinating.
Bruce MacEwen (of Adam Smith Esq. fame) has one of the most valuable blogs on the blogosphere if we measure that objectively based on its (richly deserved) popularity Bruce shines a light on the looming New York Subway strike in his post: Limits to Capitalism: The New York City Subways and When Public Benefits Private