Are You "Just Happy to See Me," or Looking to Get Fired?
This grocery store worker from Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y, was terminated for leaving work with far more meat in his pants than he arrived with. $1,200.00 more meat, to be precise. (Make…
Garry Wise
140 Law is Taking a Break
We will be taking a short hiatus from 140 Law, in furtherance of that elusive work-life balance thing we keep hearing so much about (not to mention the domestic bliss…
Counsel: Your Crystal Ball is Busted (@SlawTips)
Today at SlawTips, I look at research that tells us lawyers’ predictive abilities could use a bit of work: The take-away from this research is that legal professionals appear to…
Lawyers: To Blog or Not To Blog (Today @SlawTips)
In my post today at SlawTips, I answer a reader’s question about blogging for lawyers: Hello Mr. Wise, …I am considering blogging this year. I was wondering if you have…
Merry Christmas from Wise Law
A Merry Christmas to readers, colleagues and clients from all of us at Wise Law Office. We will be taking our usual seasonal hiatus. Our office will be closed until…
Human Nature?
Is it just an oddity of human nature that we can get so much done when we have absolutely no time, while having so little relative productivity when we have…
Glenn Greenwald on the Complacency of Corporate Law Partners
Journalist/lawyer Glenn Greenwald, with observations on the leadership of America’s corporate law firms, from his early days as a BigLaw associate: There’s a huge dichotomy between people who grow up…