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December 11, 2004

crow with a mouthful

Filed under: pre-06-2006 — David Giacalone @ 10:32 am

on the highwire

crow with a mouthful

buzzed by a sparrow

 

 

 








Christmas eve-
the row of cut trees
no one took home

 



credits: “on the highwire” – “Summerday, Puget Sound,” a haiku sequence

           “Christmas eve” – Modern Haiku XXIX:2 (Summer 1998)


 



by dagosan:  





waiting room –

the masked man

brings his own magazine


                            
   [Dec. 11, 2004]

 

one-breath pundit



Do Lawyers Slow Income Growth?  First we mentioned Prof. Magee’s estimate of lost   plunge graph sm 


productivity; then RiskProf extrapolated some new numbers; now, Walter Olson points

to a recent study on lawyers per capita per state, described in an article at Expansion-

Management.com.   Despite his awesome concession, I’m not sure Walter’s suggestion

of a better yardstick would work very well, either:


“Where you have a lot of business centers, generally you will have a lot of

attorneys, and it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are bad for the economy,”

said Walter Olson, founder and editor of the Web site, www.overlawyered.com,

and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Olson said he has a better yardstick.

 

“If you could measure how many attorneys are out there advertising for injury cases,

that would be a much better indicator for how high the expected hassle value is of

doing business in a given state,” he pointed out.

tiny check This time, we agree with Prof. Bainbridge: “it is grossly unethical for a professor to

take money to speak on behalf of some interest group without disclosing the conflict of interest

thereby created. “

 

tiny check We also agree with the NYT editorial staff:  Harry Reid shouldn’t be suggesting

Antonin Scalia for Chief Justice, merely because Scalia’s “one smart guy.”

 

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