Archive for July 2010
The Declaration of Independence: The World’s Most Successful Mission Statement
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.…
Read MorePostcards from the Bar Exam (circa 1988), Up At An Associate’s Mind
In anticipation of a trip up to Ithaca, New York (more on that later) where I attended law school and studied for the bar exam, I decided to take another trip down memory lane and rifle through an old box of writings from that time in my life. I uncovered an essay that I’d written,…
Read MoreWhy Biglaw Billing Is Like Brown M&M’s
In the context of $201 million in legal fees, a superfluous $1600 charge — for a fancy dinner and reading a newspaper article — is chump change, something that wouldn’t have registered a blip on the client’s radar screen but for this New York Post article. Yet while the monetary value of the $1600 charge…
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