Duke Chanticleer 1975: Gonzoid Specimen No. 1.
People don’t want to accept that about themselves, that they’re part of the general rot, and they react to that angrily, which […]
Wild Men 2026 Rankings
The Rankings 1 through 100 as this blog sees them as of April 1. Living or (mainly) dead since the beginning of […]
REDUX: The Shakespeare Edition. Blawg Review #318: Fully-Engaged, Participatory, Risk-Taking, Pro-Immersion, Get-Off-Your-Knees, Change-the-World Will Shakespeare-Hunter Thompson Edition.
HORATIO O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! HAMLET And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more […]
Wild Bill
This is the Oklahoma Veterans Home, in Ardmore, OK, circa 1910. My great-great grandfather, William Beard Hull (1837–1929), died in this building […]
The 7 Habits of Highly Clueless Corporate Lawyers.
Lawyers who won’t take a stand is a time-honored tradition. Ernie from Glen Burnie, a lawyer and a life-long friend of mine, […]
Lawyering Done Right: A Backstage Pass to the World.
The Strip, Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood. As the fictional movie character John Milton said, law done right is a “backstage pass to […]
St. Genevieve saves us all.
“I know it, I see it. The Huns will not come.” Sainte Genevieve (422-512) saved Parisians from the Huns, the legend goes, […]
Dan Hull’s Rum Diary: Growing up Hunter Thompson.
Kurtz. He got off the boat. He split from the whole goddamn program. –Captain Willard, Apocalypse Now (1979) Thompson had a way […]
The World-Famous 12 Rules of Client Service: Embrace Them. Improve Them. Teach Them to the Help.
The 12 Rules, that’s who. Sometimes all you need is what one favorite poet called a New Mind. These now classic if eternally […]
107 Things Slightly Amoral Yank Lawyers Know
1. Date no one named Zoe, Brigit or Natasha. 2. No one you just met can leave anything in your home or […]
Draconian
Greek lawgiver Draco (c. 600 BC) standing in U.S. Supreme Court building between the “Light of Wisdom” and Confucius. South Frieze, right […]
Melvin Tolson’s Harlem Gallery
A funny, fearless and densely layered poem (1960s super-critic Karl Shapiro said the “baroque” style used made it funnier and more ironic), […]
Standards
Just realized today that I’m generally not good friends with anyone who hasn’t been (a) kicked out of a bar, (b) thrown […]
O Rare Partner Emeritus Redux
If you work for a peer firm, you will encounter me or someone very much like me. [Y]ou cannot avoid the essence […]
In Praise of Structure
Above: E practicing Structure. This 2006 post is from our famous Evergreen Collection. We haven’t seen a need to revise it much. […]
Racehorse Haynes on Imperfections
“I would have won them all if my clients hadn’t kept reloading and firing.” –Richard “Racehorse” Haynes (1927-2017). Trial Lawyer.
Christmas Clients
Just opened a nice Christmas card from a brand new, youngish CEO (born late 1980s) of an Ohio-based company. He also handwrote […]
One Night/One Person: 2025-26 Edition
The purpose of this post—which we keep revising every time we post it—is simple. To keep humans alive during the 30 coldest […]
Our World-Famous 12 Rules of Client Service: Embrace Them. Improve Them. Teach Them to the Help.
The 12 Rules, that’s who. Sometimes all you need is what one favorite poet called a New Mind. These now classic if […]
Manhattan Congressman Dan Sickles: Player. Planner. Original Gangster. Radical Dude.
In 1859, in Lafayette Park, U.S. Representative Daniel Sickles shot and killed fellow lawyer Philip Barton Key II, son of Francis Scott […]
The Real St. Nick: 4th century bishop, philanthropist, pol, crowd-pleaser.
Died December 6, 343 AD Happy Holidays. A word about the real Santa is in order, and we are happy to report […]
Merry Christmas…
Merry Christmas, All. And in 2026 worry about everyone’s culture globally, not your pedestrian “politics.” We are in a fight to preserve […]
My season in Hell.
Once again, it’s a miserable tortuous Hell to be a ridiculously good-looking Anglo male on American streets. You’re treated like a decorative […]
We miss you, Big John…
“John Daniel Hull III ( May 17, 1928 – December 27, 2012) of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Marco Island, Florida, a longtime executive […]