I grew up in a family of Depression Era Parents and Boomer Kids. For us, the U.S. economy overall was very good in the 1950s-1970s as we moved around in corporate America from D.C. to Chicago,...

I grew up in a family of Depression Era Parents and Boomer Kids. My mother placed emphasis not only on achievement in school and sports but on working with the physically or mentally...

Well-traveled St. Elsewhere star: "Georgia is in the Caucasus region of Eurasia, right?" Our friend Ellen Bry, a nighttime drama television mainstay (St. Elsewhere, Dexter, Boston Legal, Monk, The...

A wise man's country is the world. --Aristippus (435-360 BC), as quoted by Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosphers "There is hope. I see traces of men." Aristippus was shipwrecked on...

At Richard Nahem's I Prefer Paris, see "Meredith Mullins: Chantilly Night".

CQC aims to add paintings through New Year's Eve. We don't understand the Art or the Context, but it did put us in a holly jolly mood. But the "F**kART" series? We'll noodle that awhile. Never law cattle, always original, CQC makes us like the...

"Know the Client" is from our world-famous if nettlesome--we're right about this stuff; so just get over it, and do it, OK?--12 Rules. Learn the stock price, industry, day-to-day culture, players and long-term goals of the client. Visit offices and...

Robert Palmer once sang, persuasively and with brio, that "the women are smarter". We'd add braver, and more motivated. It's bracing to hear we may have new heroes and leaders. Just stay focused on merit. Some worry that the frightened U.S. male...

John Hope Franklin, author, historian and civil rights figure, died this past year at the age of 94. Franklin wrote From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans, a classic first published in 1947. He taught at Fisk, St. Augustine's,...

Small, powerful ads. See our Rule Six: When You Work, You Are Marketing. Every moment your law firm "works for a client"--it sends the client something, it talks with the client, it does virtually anything for or about that client that the client...