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Georgetown Law Dean, Millennials, and Unrealistic Expectations at the ABA
The ABA Journal recently put up a brief comment from the new Georgetown Law Dean: The new dean of Georgetown University Law Center sees an upside to the tough job market for lawyers. In an interview with the Washington Post publication Capital Business, Georgetown law dean William Michael Treanor says grads are now more likely to [...]
Think People Are Too Negative Online? Welcome to the Internet
Note: This post doesn’t have much to do with professional development and is instead a brief commentary on the legal blogging sphere (read: navel-gazing). It also contains some strong language. Feel free to skip it if that’s not your thing. Nancy Myrland over at Myrland Marketing recently made a post about a spate of negativity in comments [...]
China Law Blog – Supply Chains and Culture
I sent a link over to Dan Harris at the China Law Blog about supply chain problems that arise between Western buyers and Chinese suppliers. The article is a breakdown between: Family orientation vs self-interest Guanxi network vs multiple institutions Guanxi building process vs Western relationship-building process Mr. Harris shares his experience in regards to [...]
Protect Your Location Information Part II: iPhone Geo-Tagging
There has been more than enough praise written in regards to the iPhone, in all its incarnations. Regardless, of one’s feeling about Apple and their business strategy and practice, the iPhone is probably the best smart phone around and certainly one of the more popular (I use one). iPhones, and most modern Android phones, have [...]
Facebook Places – Don’t Let Others Geo-Tag You, Protect Your Location Information
For the unaware, Facebook has recently rolled out a feature called “Places.” Places is very similar to another website/service called FourSquare, which allows users to “check-in” at locations (businesses, homes, parks, etc.) in real life. When a user “checks in,” this information is broadcast to the service – either to friends or the whole world. Why [...]
Remember Everything, Find Anything
I think many lawyers, law students, anyone really, could benefit from the use of a program/service called Evernote. I am a huge, huge fan and user of Evernote and thought I would talk about it briefly since many people don’t seem to understand the concept – or have never heard of it. Most importantly, it’s [...]
Anticipating the Unexpected
I would hope that most people at this point are familiar with Nassim Taleb and his work The Black Swan. For the unaware, from Wikipedia: The Black Swan Theory or “Theory of Black Swan Events” was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to explain 1) the disproportionate role of high-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare events that are beyond the realm of [...]
Shu Ha Ri – Martial Arts Theoretical Framework as Applied to Learning/Practicing Law Part III
Note: This is the final Part in a series on the traditional Japanese educational (master/apprentice) framework, Shu Ha Ri, and it’s correlation with the study/practice of law. Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here. Ri Wikipedia describes it as “leave”, “separate” — transcendence — there are no techniques or proverbs, [...]
Tattoos, Technology, Tolerance and TMI
Interesting breakdown on Gen Y/Millennials found here, from The Jury Expert. Quick excerpt: Case themes a. Millennials led very structured and protected early lives. Themes of how investors/plaintiffs/trainees were not protected, trained or supported may resonate with them. Betrayal of trust is a serious violation. The trial theme trifecta of T-L-C (training, leadership and communication) [...]
