Welcome to the Refreshed Adam Smith, Esq.

The observant and—one can hope—the unobservant alike among you will note an updated look here at AdamSmithEsq.com. We readily admit this “refresh” means more to us than it means to you, and we’re fine with that.  Indulge us a moment. A few of the...

A Brief Interlude on Language

In the midst of our series on Jim Collins’s How the Mighty Fall, it occurs to me it might be valuable to pause and talk for a moment about language. Partly this is prompted by a bit of self-consciousness on my part, that the true value of Collins’s five...

FRCP Webinars

AccessData webinar series: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the FRCP Amendments I will be moderating a series of three webinars on the amendments to the FRCP.  Registration is free and each webinar will last about 45 minutes. AccessData is running an eDiscovery...

Happy Birthday, Adam Smith!

Today is Adam Smith’s birthday: 1723, so he would be 292 today. Well, at least we think so. His birth was registered at the church in Kirkcaldy, Scotland (just across the Firth of Forth north of Edinburgh, not 10 miles as the crow flies) on 5 June 1723, so...

Pericles’ Funeral Oration (Memorial Day + 1)

Nothing can possibly accompany a silent captioned picture of Arlington, so I publish this separately and for your reflection at your leisure and as with all things only if you wish. But for those of an historic bent, the tradition of annually setting aside a day to...
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