Ken Adams cannot stand legal jargon. If a contract contains the word witnesseth, the transactional lawyer shudders. The old-fashioned phrase represents and warrants is another common culprit, a waste of time and energy, according to Adams.
We started Day 4 of our Rebels Tour with a surprise visit from Rebels profile writer Jenny B. Davis, who happened to be in town for Fashion Week.
By Day Three, we have one valuable lesson learned: The longer into the night one edits video and multimedia, the more punchy/silly one becomes.
Dan Schwartz is a rabid Yankees fan, a former contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, a father of three and a Connecticut Bar Association junkie—although, as his Twitter bio notes, not necessarily in that order.
Phew, we made it through Day Two.
The Rebels tour crew is about to hit the Big Apple (if the Big Apple doesn’t hit us first), and we want to get together with anybody who’s interested in Rebels, the ABA or the practice of law.
There’s a framed picture of a prowling snow leopard in Susan Cartier Liebel’s living room. It’s a stunning piece, a limited-edition print Liebel loves both for the way it looks and for what it represents.
The fine folks at the Legal Talk Network were kind enough to ask Rebels Tour crew members Ed and Rachel to appear yesterday on the latest installment of their Lawyer2Lawyer podcast.
Our first official tour day was action-packed. In the morning, we visited our first Rebel of the journey, Cheryl Conner, at her home in Sherborn, Mass., her wooded property as our backdrop.
Sometimes it takes an ethereal person to make us more grounded. Cheryl Conner, 56, who sees herself as a “change agent, visionary, lawyer and economist,” hopes to use age-old concepts to inspire new approaches to the law as applied to business and politics.
The Rebels Tour crew – Molly, Rachel, John and Ed – touched down in Boston on Sunday.
Next week, the Legal Rebels ‘09 Tour will be visiting an expert on going solo.
It’s nearly 1 a.m. on a summer night in Taiwan, and Mae O’Malley still has work to do.
As we motor down I-95 from Sept. 14-25, we’ll be stopping along the way to visit with some of the most innovative lawyers in big firms, solo practice, bar associations, law schools, nonprofits and legal technology companies.
With reality TV all the rage, it may only be a matter of time before camera crews start following Carl Malamud. Exterminators, nannies and fishermen get their own shows, so wouldn’t it make sense that America would tune in to watch a guy who resembles Paul Simon—the musician, not the late senator—driving an old Jeep Wrangler from library to library to check out how they’re storing documents?
Four people trapped in a confined space for two weeks as they barrel down the highway, in search of the future of the practice of law. Is it a reality show in the making, a homicide waiting to happen, or both?
Thomas Bruce, co-founder of the world’s first legal information website, is many things.
His wife, playwright Judith Pratt, describes him as a polymath, and she ticks off an imaginary list: “He knows computers, theater, opera, woodworking tools. And although he hasn’t studied French, Italian or German since college, he can cope in those languages.”
With more than 200 nominations of could-be Legal Rebels, we had a lot of choices of where to go for our Rebel-a-day road trip. Our choice – the tradition-bound but hungry BosWash corridor, right down that scenic boulevard I-95.
It was fall 2005, and Indiana University law professor Bill Henderson had a dilemma. He was gathering statistics, analyzing data and speaking at law firms across the country, but none of his IU Bloomington colleagues, all experts in established legal practices such as constitutional law and torts, could fathom exactly what he did.
In the world of academia, where tenure is won through peer recognition, that’s a problem.
Adam Reich knew early on it would take more than just good lawyering to free his client. It would take a movement.
So he set out to start one.
