Recently I was in a meeting with a group of attorneys reviewing two proposed addenda to a contract. One was very detailed – contained definitions, covered all possible contingencies and outcomes. Its sheer length and complexity made it more difficult to follow. The second was much shorter thus easier to understand and addressed only the …
Ciao, Italia
As Nancy or Andrea told you, I was gone and off the map in January. I was in Italy playing house husband to my wife and father to my kids while my wife taught a St. Olaf College art history course in Florence. Now, before you think my days were filled with leisurely lunches of …
Not Even My Two Front Teeth
I am caught between Thanksgiving (when I express thankfulness) and Christmas (when I ask for gifts) and New Year’s (when I make resolutions). Best to combine them all and devote this post to a list of those things I resolve to be thankful for if they come about in 2010: 1. Computer silence. I ask …
Don’t Right Click This Post
The Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility has been busy with its opinions in the last year, amending two prior opinions, proposing and approving two new opinions, and proposing a third new opinion that is currently open for comment. The two relatively new opinions cover the use of the term “& Associates” in a firm’s …