http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq breathless punditry and one-breath poetry with David Giacalone Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:49:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en digital age aging digits pause at the keyboard ... dagosan Notice: After almost 6 years, 2500 postings, and a million visits,  f/k/a stopped publishing new material (and accepting new Comments) as of March 1, 2009.  The content is all still here in our archives, of course, so please browse to find unique and wide-ranging ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2009/02/28/were-all-archive-now/ We wouldn't be the f/k/a Gang, if we weren't frantically scampering to meet a self-imposed deadline on a Saturday night.  It's a good thing we can re-use the same words written the first time we closed down this weblog, in October 2003, with only minor changes: Doing ethicalEsq f/k/a has ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2009/02/28/just-getting-to-know-you/ .. .. last day for ice fishing buckets half-full - photo by dagosan (Feb. 24, 2009, Mohawk River, Schenectady, Riverside Park) How does one say goodbye to a weblog and its readers after almost six years and 2500 posts?  I'm not sure, but happily won't have to decide until the next and final ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2009/02/28/a-few-farewell-haiga/ reprise: "ethicalEsq's first slippery slope" (posted Dec. 23, 2003) giacalone giacalone & giacalone, Christmas 1950 (photo by Mama G.) moving day dust bunnies and shadows left behind .... by dagosan http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2009/02/28/probably-not-our-last-slippery-slope/ Consumers of legal services won't find much information online or at their public library to help them keep their costs down when they hire a lawyer.  Some websites or firms might hawk their own services or materials as being a great value, or as an option far cheaper than using ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2009/02/28/understanding-and-reducing-attorney-fees/ February thaw a new patch of orange on the river ... by dagosan Catching another sunset or two in photos before we "archivize" this weblog on Saturday seemed like a good idea, as the afternoon waned today. [click "more" below to see some of the photographs]  Naturally, I managed to dawdle so long ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2009/02/26/rivers-sunset-metaphors-galore/ .. They're peeved over time-based pay . . note: this is #4 in our final week’s erratic ALF Series on American Legal Fees; click for #1; #2; #3 . . It's my last week of posting, so I'm going to indulge myself and discuss a pet peeve or two of mine ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2009/02/26/alf4-crushed-by-clocks-insulted-by-intervals/ In this last week of new posting at f/k/a, how can I possibly put together a piece that pays adequate homage to the vast body of haikai -- haiku, senryu and related poetic-literary genres -- that our Honored Guest Poets have allowed me to share with you?  In two words: ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2009/02/25/all-that-great-haikai/ .. Click for the video of ALF's "Risky Business" spoof ..  .. [or, Heidi's R-rated version] note: this is #3 in our final week's erratic ALF Series on American Legal Fees; click for #1 and #2 (hmmm, that sounds scatological); and #4 - While I was in law school, ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2009/02/24/alf-3-dont-forget-those-minimum-fee-schedules/ .. .. ALFEsq & Prof. Yabut discuss self-regulation .. .. ALF: But, Yabut, why can't the Melmac Bar & Grill sponsor the Feline Protection League?  You know how important cats are to us. Yabut:  For snacks and meals, you mean. ALF:  Like we tell them, "we always serve you first." - note: ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2009/02/24/alf-2-foxes-guarding-the-golden-eggs/ .. Ed & Edison in Schenectady (Jan. 2009)  .. .. What a strange coincidence: Just as I was announcing that this would be the last week of production for f/k/a, my friend "Ed Post" was putting together this week's version of Blawg Review -- #200!! -- which opens with a ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2009/02/23/nostalgic-about-blawg-review/ ... We're going to permanently stop production at this weblog on March 1, 2009.  As Your Editor and his alter egos wind down the blawg formerly known as ethicalEsq, the f/k/a Gang is going to do what we've done since the spring of 2003:  Focus our punditry on American ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2009/02/22/alf-1-other-thoughtful-voices-on-the-lawyer-billing-debate/ .... Prune Juice Journal ... at last in his coffin depressed friend is smiling ... by George Swede - Prune Juice (Issue 1, Winter 2009) morning after— what’s left of the cheese has a bite .... by Jim Kacian - Prune Juice (Issue 1) .. Haiku legend Alexis Rotella has uncorked her first distillation of Prune Juice: ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2009/02/21/is-prune-juice-your-cup-of-tea/ In a thoughtful 12-page decision, dated Feb. 18, 2009, Albany [New York] City Court Judge Thomas K. Keefe refused to enforce the City's sex offender residency law, using the Oberlander case as precedent, and refusing to follow a decision by his City Court benchmate, Judge Rachel Kretser.  See Peo. v. ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2009/02/20/albany-city-court-judge-says-local-sex-offender-law-is-pre-empted/ .. The tired old fogies at f/k/a want to thank the energetic Scott Greenfield for covering the latest Schenectady cop scandal at his Simple Justice weblog, so we won't have to think too hard this morning.  See "Even Cops Need Some Sleep" (Feb. 19, 2009) Teaser: Schenectady Police Officer Dwayne ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2009/02/19/officer-johnsons-undercover-operation/ ..  The newest issue of Frogpond [Vol. 32:1, Winter 2009], the journal of the Haiku Society of America, arrived at my door this snowy February afternoon.  Frogpond always has a lot of winning haiku, but this issue also announces the winners of HSA's most prestigious annual contests: The 2008 ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2009/02/18/frogpond-brings-hsa-winners/