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Summer Reading List 2025

In keeping with our tradition at Adam Smith, Esq. of publishing a summertime diversion in the form of a selective list of what we’ve been reading lately, herewith the 2025 installment: Fiction, nonfiction, and one millennia-old classic. Our hope is that you might find... read more +

Henry Kravitz on Line One?

by | Jan 23, 2005 | 1 Comment

Is there anything interesting to be said of the potential Pillsbury/Shaw-Pittman merger?  Regular readers will know that I approach mergers with a jaundiced eye, given their frankly embarrassing track record of destroying rather than creating value in...

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Eat Your Spinach

by | Jan 21, 2005 | 0 Comments

More on Marketing 101 for lawyers:  Do you know how to work a room?  Are you comfortable delivering an elevator pitch about what you do for your clients?  Both these articles cover the basics in reassuring, albeit non-negotiable, terms.  For...

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Natural Born Pitch-Men?

by | Jan 20, 2005 | 0 Comments

You would think lawyers should be natural-born pitch-men.  Trained to present their case orally and on the page, taught to analytically arrive at the heart of the matter, peeling away dross and marginalia, understanding the appeal of a simple story with a strong...

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Debating Affirmative Action: Ideology or Data?

by | Jan 18, 2005 | 1 Comment

The current issue of the Stanford Law Review has an empirical analysis of the impact of affirmative action in law school admissions on black students, written by UCLA Law Professor Richard Sander, which concludes that the "costs of preferential admissions appear to...

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I’ll Drink to That. On Second Thought,…

by | Jan 16, 2005 | 1 Comment

Which profession is most likely to suffer from stress, depression, and alcohol or substance abuse?  That's right—here's lookin' at you, kid.  According to the FT, alcohol-related deaths in the UK among lawyers are double the rate of the general...

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