Mac Lawyers User’s Group.

Posted by Cliff Tuttle Any Pittsburgh area lawyer who is interested in helping to form a Macintosh Users Group, give me a call at 412-561-6303. CLT

Then Who?

When PNC acquired Dwelling House, for better or worse, it acquired its mission. So now we ask PNC the question. What are you doing to keep the dream of home ownership alive in the Hill District? Every Pittsburgher should ask the bank that bears this city’s name that question.

If not PNC, then who?

G-20, the Agonizing Reappraisal.

Pittsburgh has been trying to attract the attention of opinion-makers and corporate leaders in European markets for generations. Now, the same group we have been trying to impress is coming here. They know all about Chicago but most of them know precious little about Pittsburgh. We can change that in a hurry. Yes, there are risks. Didn’t your grandfather teach you that big opportunities mean equivalent risks?

As the Visa commercial might say: “Having the G-20 meet in your City — priceless!”

Why Do You Care? Or, Putting It More Bluntly, Why Aren’t You Minding Your Business?

Of course, everybody knows that if he hadn’t been a premium NFL quarterback, he would have probably been unable to get a job taking tickets at the gate or selling popcorn in the stands. Does that actually mean something?

Anonymous Lawyer Follow Up: Working Mom/Lawyer Competition.

Equally interesting, was Jones’ comment that he received a large number of formulaic press releases from many of the fifty firms who actually were named by Working Mother, begging for a mention. That kind of PR doesn’t get the attention of the WSJ Blog. You gotta have some imagination. (PS, law firms, that’s how you win hard cases, too.)

In Denial and Sticking to It.

It is an interesting psychological phenomenon that fear of loss is far more motivating than hope of gain. The people who are going to absorb the economic burden of a changing system will become politically motivated while those who stand to have a reduction in assessments remain indifferent and politically unorganized. This has happened in the recent past. Spot reassessments in Mt. Lebanon and Sewickley, seen as an expedient to balance the county budget created such a groundswell that the Republicans were swept into office for the first time since 1932. Onorato can see that coming again if he energizes the opposition by making the wrong political move.

Foreclosure Court

Posted by Cliff Tuttle (c) 2009 I went to civil division motions this morning. Just about all of the local lawyers representing mortgage foreclosure firms were there. They all had a few motions, mostly unopposed. Very few lawyers were there with motions or arguments on any other kind of case. I’ve seen this phenomenon occur […]

Getting Stuck With The Tab For G20 Security: a Modest Proposal.

Well, we all got of taste of what it might be like when the G20 meets in Pittsburgh next month. There was a motivational seminar at the Mellon Arena today and the seminar attendees (probably over 20,000 of them) attacked downtown Pittsburgh from every direction. It was a gridlock in a town that doesn’t have too many. Then they swamped all of the eateries at lunch time (at least those near the Arena). Who knows what other mischief they performed just by being here?

A Second Life? What Would You Do?

But if there is any good news that came from this tragedy, it is that many others did not die. All of the wounded are expected to recover. Others who were in that dark room when the shooting began were spared by fate. And there were many others who heard the shots and experienced various degrees of awareness that their time on earth might come to an abrupt end.

Pittsburgh Legal Newslog: Attorney General May Preemptively Challenge Ordinances That Violate State Agricultural Law.

Posted by Cliff Tuttle August 9, 2009 Law of the Land Blog.

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