For Corporate Counsel || Stalking Horses, Pitchfork Crowds, Narrow Neckties, Mr. Rogers’s Slippers and Indicted Employees: 6 Steps To Dodge Being Deweyed
You may (or may not) recall the Boy Scout Law: “A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, friendly, brave, clean and...
Friday Cocktails | Drinking In London, Watching Your Vocabulary and Freezing Your Cubes
To begin the weekend: London’s top cocktail bars, a whiskey glossary and a history of ice cubes. London Calling. The drinks aren’t cheap, but here’s...
Dewey indictments and their significance for corporate counsel
Look for upcoming notes on the Dewey & Leboeuf indictments and their significance for corporate counsel....
Clarence Darrow and What A Lot of White Collar Lawyers Think
Via Vanity Fair, a quote from a hell of a defense lawyer: “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with...
Need to Know | Nuts-and-Bolts of The Toyota Deferred-Prosecution Agreement
From the Wall Street Journal‘s law blog (@WSJLaw and @jacobgershman), here is a good summary of the Highlights from Toyota’s Deferred Prosecution Agreement With Prosecutors. Note...
“After Deadline” and What White-Collar Lawyers Need: Grammar and Style
From Philip B. Corbett and the indispensable folks at “After Deadline,” the New York Times grammar and style column, this post on Bright Passages. In particular:...
White Collar Wire: Now On The ABA Blawg Directory
We’re very happy to now be part of the American Bar Association Journal’s Blawg Directory. Here’s the ABA post: White Collar Wire Website RSS...
Red Harvest: Crime Fiction and Gospel Conviction
Pop culture and theology mix fruitfully in pulp-crime fiction. Here’s a four-part course from 2012: Red Harvest: Crime Fiction and Gospel Conviction . Here’s the blurb...
Of Grand Juries and Ham Sandwiches
It is true: having long ago become unmoored from its origins as a shield between Crown and subject, a grand jury can indict a ham...
Gastronomista: “cocktails, punch bowls and boozy babes”
The law can be dreary, so at White Collar Wire we follow cocktails, as well. For weekend viewing and sipping, we point you to Gastronomista, which...