by Experience, Dedication, Results | Jan 6, 2010
If the economy is improving, why does it feel so bad? Has anyone actually met a “GDP”? Ever snuggled up with a productivity index, or nuzzled with “increased inventories”. Do any of these “signs of improvement” have children or...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Jan 6, 2010
Banks were first drunk with lending, and now are frozen like cowards. Small businesses with good credit histories are routinely being denied SBA loans. The L.A. Business Journal reports that Capital One Financial Corp. did not make a single SBA loan in 2009. I believe...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Jan 5, 2010
Oh, if only life followed the dictates of the Supreme Court. We would have a greatly simplified and predictable world. Once upon a time, the Court was troubled that managers were being sued individually for acts of discrimination. (Reno v. Baird). On the other hand,...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Jan 5, 2010
My observation over time is that we lawyers do not generally make good dancers. Dancers are connected in multiple dimensions. They are connected to the floor, to the rhythm, and to their partner. They FEEL the music, and translate that feeling into a fluid motion that...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Nov 12, 2009
That expression “couldn’t see the forest for the trees” assumed new meaning in a recent blockbuster case, Nazir v. United Airlines (2009 Cal.App. LEXIS 1659). The meaning might be that the forest was ravished by the paper tonnage needed to support...
