On the Importance of Being First.

What is the difference between being first and being second? Luck usually.

Carlota Bohm tentatively named Bankruptcy Judge

No. 649 A merit selection committee has tentatively named Pittsburgh attorney and Chapter 7 Trustee Carlota Bohm of Houston Harbaugh as Bankruptcy Judge in the Western District of Pennsylvania, subject to public comment until August 5. CLT

Casey Anthony Verdict: Give Credit Where Due.

Is it possible, just possible, that defense counsel may have had something to do with the outcome?

Fiftieth Anniversary of “Tossin’ and Turnin'”.

No. 647 Rock and roll singer Bobby Lewis came through Pittsburgh briefly this weekend, on his way to perform in a concert in Folansbee WV. On July 10, 1961, fifty years ago yesterday, his hit song “Tossin’ and Turnin’” hit number one and stayed there all summer — ten weeks. It sold three million copies, was […]

One Thousandth Follower on Twitter: Thr!ve Marketing.

ON THE EVE OF THE THIRD BIRTHDAY OF PITTSBURGH LEGAL BACKTALK, OUR ONE THOUSANDTH FOLLOWER, THR!VE MARKETING OF CHANDLER AZ LOGGED IN.

Group Therapy

The discussions range from trivial to absurd to self-serving to intermittently informative. The most popular ones involve giving each other (or newbies, or wannabes) advice. “When do you run, not walk, from a client?” was a popular one. It ran for months and months beyond its shelf life expiration date, with at ll the same advice eventually being repeated in an endless loop.

Security Alert

No. 644 With the advent of all that cloud based stuff and free wifi, etc etc comes the specter of hacker threats and data security. Here’s a pretty good checklist of things you might wan’t to consider in this era of cybertheft. Hat tip to my friend Lance Godard of the always-worth-reading Are You Reading […]

Turning Three.

No. 643 This Thursday is the Third Anniversary of the first post on this blog. I say this with pride, since most blogs don’t last so long. Most authors simply run out of ideas or enthusiasm or both. I run out of ideas, too — often. But eventually new ones pop up. One reliable means […]

The Continuing American Revolution, 2011

We held these truths to be self evident on July 4, 1776, but ironically we are still exploring what these truths might mean in 2011, 235 years later. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The story of American Law has been the story of this quest and it shows no sign of completion. It is the story of the individual vs. the state, the many vs. the few; the powerful vs. the powerless. The outcome may seem self-evident in hindsight, but it is never so while the struggle is joined.

The Founding Fathers and Slavery.

So, Michelle Bachman is being called a non-leader by some for making a statement that the Founding Fathers worked tirelessly to abolish slavery. When pressed about it, the only example that she could come up with was John Quincy Adams. Whereupon, she drew a certain measure of ridicule by certain persons tho declared John Quincy not to be a founding father. The critics were willing to admit that JQA worked to abolish slavery, though.

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