Transcend your mundane day-to-day to-do list with a journey into space I would say imagine but I don’t have to because it is real. Go to the most unbelievable web site in existence and enjoy the preview This is NOT fiction this is an understated and underpublicized miracle that may someday save your
Gerry Riskin
Ethnocentricity in a Global Village – take the test
July 1 was Canada Day, July 4th is the US’s Independence Day. Is that it? I DON’T THINK SO!!
July 1 was also:
Aarauer Maienzug in Switzerland
Bank Holiday in Taiwan
Communist Party Foundation in China
Emancipation Day in St. Eustatius
Freedom Day in Suriname
Heiva i Tahiti in French Polynesia
Hong Kong Special Administrative…
The Mediocre Law Firm Emergency
For law firm managing partners, executive committee members, marketing partners, practice group leaders, industry group leaders, chief marketing officers, chief technology officers, executive directors and other folks involved in the management of your law firm, there is a gentleman who holds an MBA from Stanford, and who was called “the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information…
Is Law Firm Marketing a Great Big Fish Story?
A lot of law firm marketing is absolute science fiction. Some people in the marketing profession are suggesting that they can help lawyers catch the big fish. These people are selling diet pills to the gullible.
The biggest fish every caught was snagged today in the Mekong River in northern Thailand. If you read the…
Take Bruce MacEwan’s pencil test – how long is yours?
Bruce does not pose this as a test, but I believe you can use his post that way at least in the privacy of your own mind.
Thank you Michelle Golden of Golden Practices
Check out Michelle’s Blog, Golden Practices. I confess that I discovered Michell’s blog when she was kind enough to reference one of my postings, “Commitment and Doubt”. Thank you for that, Michelle. Her “tag line” is:
Ideas, tips and best practices for and from professional service firms: CPAs, Lawyers and other business advisors.
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Heenan Blaikie gets amazing client support
Can you imagine having a good client trolling for a great lateral hire for your law firm and making it happen? Heenan Blaikie, is one of Canada’s premier law firms (heck, they attracted former Prime Minister Jean Cretien and years ago, the even more famous former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau).
According to yesterday’s Globe…
Insight on Law Firm Decision Making
Every marketing professional can sing the same lament about trying to get a decision made in a law firm. Even brilliant suggestions are met with resistance that is so elegant that you have to almost admire it.
Thanks to The Economist, I think I may have an insight to offer
no offence, it’s because we…
Holland & Hart Lawyers are Heroes
Holland & Hart lawyers meet the dictionary definition of heroes: “A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed
” They are in good company. Allow me to excerpt my earlier post on another legal hero, second US President John Adams:
“Mr. Adams added honor to…
Heinz hits new low exploits 」4 lawyer story
You may recall the incident of the 」4 drycleaning bill reimbursement request by a solicitor in one of the world’s largest firms. (If you didn’t catch the story, then check your watch because you may have been abducted by an alien for a few hours.)
Michael Mullen, the director of European Corporate Affairs for Heinz…

