Richard Nixon was President of the United States from 1969 until he resigned in disgrace after Watergate in 1974. Before that, he was the unsuccessful candidate in the 1960 presidential election which brought John F Kennedy to the White House, and I recall that this poster of an unshaven and rather sinister looking “Tricky Dicky” contributed… Read More »
One thing I learned from my recent trip to Zimbabwe is that it is safe and welcoming, at any rate for tourists. Many people have expressed surprise at my destination, mainly on the grounds of a probably misplaced perception that the place is inherently unstable and unsafe. The picture below shows a scene of contented… Read More »
Judge Shira Scheindlin of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has been at it again! Famous for her ground breaking judgments on e-discovery spoliation in the Zubulake and Montreal Pension plan cases, the judge has now delivered a third ruling on this subject. Law Technology News carried an article earlier this… Read More »
Recently (July 10th 2013) I wrote a piece called Hang a Shingle which featured a certain Casey Flaherty who is corporate counsel at Kia Motors America. My piece featured a short five minute interview with him by Monica Bay of Legal Technology News (Casey Flaherty on Tech Audits.) where Mr Flaherty discusses making lawyers undergo… Read More »
When David Miranda was stopped at Heathrow in transit to Brazil, the police detained him for the nine hours maximum allowed by the relevant anti-terrorist legislation. He was questioned about classified material on his laptop said to have been obtained from Edward Snowden, the whistleblower now kicking his heels in Russia in an attempt to escape inquiry and… Read More »
American friends of mine emailed from sunny Washington the other day to complain (if that is the right word) that they had been living and working in the UK for a number of years and that it was only after they left to go back to the US that we in England had what you might call… Read More »
We are clearly in the silly season! Or are we? At least one high profile person has their business head firmly screwed on. The tennis player Maria Sharapova is not one for bashfulness at the best of time. No one who grunts as she does, could ever be accused of shyness! Sharapova was reported recently to… Read More »
You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. So the saying goes, but if that means that it is impossible to make something of quality with inferior materials, it seems that scientists beg to differ. The Economist reports that a few weeks ago on August 5th, in London, approximately one hundred journalists… Read More »
I confess that I had forgotten that there was a draft report on my trip to Southern California this spring lying unpublished in what passes for my junk drawer for this blog. Publication of the latest edition of the Commentary published by the Litigation Counsel of America (LCA) has stirred me into action. You can read… Read More »
Once again we appear to have encountered a problem with email notifications to our subscribers. Many of you will see the posts anyway, either by logging onto the blog or by following us on Twitter where the links are always published but in case you have missed one or two posts, here are links to… Read More »