Re: In-House Question
 

My friend is also terrible at subtlety.

Thank you everyone, this has been very useful. Food for thought.

Re: In-House Question
 

Two years ago I was running with the CEO/controlling shareholder of a client who had also become a personal friend. We were talking generally about law firm economics and partnership deals and somewhat more specifically my deal. I inserted the story of another lawyer I knew of who had gone in house and as a result the client saved about 750K/year (he knew the client, a closely held company, and could correctly speculate that the 750K in savings went into the principals pockets).

That's called planting the seed.

Now I am the GC/Acquisitions guy at his company.

That's called reaping what you sow.

YMMV.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

That's the most self-indulgent thing anyone other than Penske has ever written.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

The first time I read your post I was upset. The second time I read it I realized you've spent the last 10 years or so on these boards looking (and failing, evidently) to find some means to tear down my substantial and well regarded internet presence. And the third time I read it I realized why that was. To spend so much time and energy and apparent relish being so bitter and judgmental about someone you don't know and a legend you lack the sophistication to truly appreciate: How sad for you. Me? I take comfort in the thousands of people, men and women, both on and off the internets, who take me at my premium value and see in me the better angels of our nature, who don't project their own failures and insecurities upon me, and who are kind and compassionate instead of… well, instead of like you. :mad::):D:P

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Reader's digest cond. v: he's a hater.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

It's too bad we're so far from 5K, because that would have been a beautiful coda on the thread you named after yourself.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Can I get a do over?

And if you let me do it over, I promise to do it right :(:o;):)

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

i've pulled last night's letter from the mail the next morning on more than one occasion. lord knows how I'd have fared when I could have hit send the night before.

Re: In-House Question
 

honest question- do you find yourself missing the viets when you pee?

Re: In-House Question
 

Honest answer, yes, just the other day I felt a little verklempt while at the urinal in an otherwise empty bathroom. I almost twittered about it, but that seemed a little tmi, in a bad way.

Also, for the record, now that outability is not an issue, they were really Taiwanese, but I suspected more than a couple of being Red Chinese agents.

The End is Nigh
 

ADA absurdity reaches new hig ..., um, lows.

Re: The End is Nigh
 

is there a minimum number of employees for ada to apply? like if I own a 1 branch small restaurant am i exempt?

Re: The End is Nigh
 

That's absurd. The courts and the regulatory agencies have been off the rails for a while, but Congress is too cowardly to say what it meant. See also: Education law (except the courts have been SLIGHTLY more sensible than they've been in the ADA context).

Re: The End is Nigh
 

To me this is exemplary of California as a dying state. Why anyone would want to do business there (other than maybe in the wine industry) escapes me. Probably in the bottom ten from a regulatory/administrative cost/barriers to entry in my industry.

No offence.

And in fairness, I do like the wine.

Re: The End is Nigh
 

Nah, plaintiffs' lawyers are fist-fighting for office space.