The Rodent: Attorneys Bandy Fevers As Badges Of Honor
The Rodent elucidates the cost-benefit equation of attorney illness: Come to work sick equals miserable. Stay at home sick equals miserable — and poorer.
The Rodent
The Rodent: Managing Partners Rest As Uneasily As Royalty
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" goes Shakespeare's lament, and it is as true for managing partners as it was for Henry IV, but for different reasons, writes The Rodent.
May The Wheels Of Justice Grind Fine For Suspect No. 2
The wheels of American justice are and will be grinding for Suspect No. 2 in the Boston bombing, slow but fine, to which The Rodent says: "Grind, baby, grind."
The Rodent: Zombie adjudication a needed practice area
Given the trend toward more and more zombies, there's going to be a growing call for this zombie lawyers, writes The Rodent.
The Rodent: Today's wars waged with suits of pinstripe, iPads
Unlike the suits of armor and swords used in feudal courts of the Middle Ages' kings and queens, today's attorneys don suits of pinstripe and wield iPads to duke it out in courts of law — but the battles are every bit as epic, writes The Rodent.
The Rodent: Exercise for lawyers an exercise in futility
The lawyer form of weight-loss exercise entails the expenditure of much more money than energy, lightening, at least, the bank account, writes The Rodent.
The Rodent: A lawyer's time is less valuable than you think
A lawyer's doing well if she can bill an hour for every hour and a half she works, writes The Rodent.
The Rodent: Succession planning at The Firm can learn a lesson from current events
There are obvious parallels between absolute monarchies based on divine right, totalitarian states based on power growing out of the barrel of a gun and the power structure at the very top of The Firm, writes The Rodent.
The Rodent: Quasi-prosecutors infuriating, even downright dangerous
The most annoying thing about quasi-prosecutors is their prosecutorial attitude, an infuriating and dangerous blend of self-righteousness and state-sanctioned authority, writes The Rodent.
The Rodent: Even the bad lawyers are good at bamboozling
Despite the universally held lawyerly belief that he or she is not merely good, but great, it simply is not true that all lawyers are great, or even good, at lawyering, writes The Rodent.
The Rodent: Someone else's failure to plan may well become your emergency
Crash projects usually arise because the responsible attorney has failed to prepare. Indeed, failure to prepare can be planned out well in advance of the consequences of said preparation failure. This is just the way some lawyers operate, writes The Rodent.
Most Popular Stories
- Judge Says Rothstein's Defunct Firm Won't Be Liquidated
- Family Seeks To Reach A Deal With Marriott Over Key Biscayne Doctor's Death
- Florida Bar Wants Disbarment For Ana Gardiner
- Florida Supreme Court Rules Against 'Super Priority' Liens
- Automated South Beach Garage Isn't Living Up To Promises, Lawsuit Says
