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The f/k/a gang isn’t going to take all the credit, but we’d like to

thing we helped bring about a major improvement in legal ethics

weblogging that occurred today: the return of Ben Cowgill to active

status, at his renamed ‘Ben Cowgill on Legal Ethics‘ website.

 

When Ben launched his Legal Ethics Blog last March, we said:

“The weblog itself shows a love of writing and reflection,

along with legal ethics, that will bring me back frequently.”

When the (knuckleheads at the) Kentucky Lawyer Advertising

Commission virtually closed Ben’s weblog down, by asserting that

every blawg post is an ad (June 20, 2005), we led the charge rallying

to his support.  But, that investigation apparently kept Ben from any

substantive posting for more than half of a year.

 

“lost!G”

 

We’ve missed Ben’s updates and insights.  Today, however, Ben Cowgill’s

weblog came roaring back to life, with five posts, including:  

One praising Will Hornsby‘s “ ‘Will Hornsby on the Boundaries of Legal Marketing'”>exceptional ethics site on legal marketing;”

One explaining that the Colorado Consumer Protection Act applies to lawyers,

under a recent opinion by its highest court.

   Another showing the common concerns of disciplinary lawyers on both sides

of the aisle (examples: applying the rules to under-staffed public defender offices

and to overzealous prosecutors)

thought-provoking comments on case citations, competence and computers

What did f/k/a do to assist this auspicious event?  Three weeks ago,

in a post called speak bocce?, we set out English-to-Bocce transla-

tions that we thought might be particularly useful for several of our

weblogging colleagues. Here’s one of them:

for Ben Cowgill at BC’s Legal Ethics   

Can you send a pilot to guide me in?

Mil weez joto ne dimiix?

That’s about as close to a prayer we get around here, and it seems

to have worked.  Ben’s back and we’re happy.  Get over there and see

why.

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  To whoever it is up in Star Wars Heaven, who
  
  
  heard our plea for Ben’s return, we say:
  
  

  
  

  “Ker pazet on bpnip Holonot.”

  
  

   

  
  

  [“The payment is in the HoloNet.]

 

Kobayashi Issa celebrated many kinds of

returns with his haiku (click here for more):

 

 

flitting butterfly
to Buddha’s lap
returns

 

 

my dog returns
to the dragonfly…
field of flowers

 

 

the lover cat
with a shameless face
has returned

 

 

 

to the world of man
the moon deigns
to return

 

 

 

the hawk returns
to the goblin village…
with a nest-warming bird

 

 

 

up to today
such perserverance and strength!
returning geese

 

   Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue
                                                                                                               “phantomMask”