Associate's Mind

I continue to focusing on an excerpt from Dr. Robert Jeffery Sternberg’s book, In Search of the Human Mind, written in 1994. In it, Dr. Sternberg lists what he believes to be the twenty reasons why intelligent people fail. Now, regardless of public perception or personal anecdote, lawyers are intelligent people. Certainly some are more intelligent than others, [...]

For Tiberius, maintaining an honourable and just cause, and possessed of eloquence sufficient to have made a less creditable action appear plausible, was no safe or easy antagonist, when,  with the people crowding around the hustings, he took his place, and spoke  in behalf of the poor. “The savage beasts,” said he, “in Italy, have their particular [...]

From across the pond, Darren Sylvester of Interalialegal.com is featured in today’s Postcard from the Bar Exam. I was Called to the Bar in 2003, after graduating from University of Essex (LL.B.) and the Inns of Court School of Law, City University, London. While I had a good time at law school, it was also [...]

After having shown a number of new clerks the ropes, (I’ve been clerking at the same firm throughout law school) I thought I’d list a few basic mistakes to avoid of which I think every new associate or clerk should be aware. I include associate as I’ve seen freshly graduated law students come in as [...]

Dan Ross, President of Wechsler Ross & Partners, recently highlighted an interesting story on his firm’s blog, Bagel Tuesday, from Felix Salmon, an economics writer. An excerpt: The more you know about your beverage, the better it tastes. That’s why so many wineries put so much effort into wine tours and that’s why you’re much [...]

Here we have the final installation of Postcards from the Bar Exam – Ithaca Law Grad 1988 (Part I here Part II here Part III), kindly provided to me by Carolyn Elefant of My Shingle. I will let her parting words stand on their own. A Last Postcard from the Front. Deep down, I’m troubled when [...]

For as it is the opinion of philosophers, that could you take away strife and opposition out of the universe, all the heavenly bodies would stand still, generation and motion would cease in the mutual concord and agreement of all things, so the Spartan legislator (Agesilaus) seems to have admitted ambition and emulation among the [...]

I continue to focus on an excerpt from Dr. Robert Jeffery Sternberg’s book, In Search of the Human Mind, written in 1994. In it, Dr. Sternberg lists what he believes to be the twenty reasons why intelligent people fail. Now, regardless of public perception or personal anecdote, lawyers are intelligent people. Certainly some are more [...]

Steven Pressfield (author, Legend of Bagger Vance is probably his most famous) regularly writes about, well, writing. Being an accomplished author, he is entitled to do so. Mr. Pressfield recently put up an entry in regards to waiting until one is “ready” before beginning writing. An excerpt below: Can you stand another Pressfield military analogy? This one’s [...]

Legal Crisis Strategies has a post up in regards to titled Is Anyone Ever Really “Off-the-Record” in the Digital Age? Excerpt below: …this kind of “gotcha” citizen journalism means no one is ever truly “off” the record. Which is why a company should warn key managers, the pubic face of the company, to guard against those embarrassing [...]