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                  Alan Dershowitz

Extracts from yesterday’s letter To the Editor:

"I share your outrage at Charles D. Stimson’s ‘loathsome attempt to punish lawyers who represent inmates of the Guantánamo Bay internment camp.’ "

"But I cannot join you in your proposal that the bar disciplinary committee investigate Mr. Stimson for conduct ‘prejudicial to the administration


NYT: Apology Not Accepted

Apparently: "It is hard to render a convincing apology when you are not really apologizing."

FASTFORWARD:  If you are wondering why I am tracking this on Amazing Firms Amazing Practices it is because this is what I love about my profession and the great individuals and firms that practice in it


Seth Godin explains this distinction simply with a post well worth reading: "The difference between strategy and tactics". 

Punchline:  My experience working with law firm leaders is that many are quickly seduced by discussions about tactics.  Perhaps they are more familiar with tactics than strategy or simply enjoy debating tactics.  The great firms


    BEN STEVENS
THE MAC LAWYER

If you are a lawyer and you use a Mac (even if you only use it at home) and you do not already know Ben Stevens of The Mac Lawyer Blog, then allow me to introduce you.

Ben is a bright Spartanburg, South Carolina, lawyer with an all Mac-based

The inventive entrepreneur and former child prodigy, and I am glad to add, "friend", Rajesh Setty, at Life BEYOND CODE, has honoured me by including me in his series of Quoughts for the Day.  He invented that word but then if you know Rajesh, being inventive is child’s play.
 
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