Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Vikings, maybe not so much after all.
Wednesday, May 5, 1915. The Germans broke through and took 140,000 Russian soldiers in the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive.
Last edition:
Monday, May 3, 1915. In Flanders Fields.
Monday, May 4, 2015
The diversifying editorial
Truly, it's 1983 all over again. Not that the economy shouldn't be diversified, it's just that we're truly seeing history repeat, including editorials of the past.
The fiction of the life work balance.
Ball and Chain, Janis Joplin.I don't mean, if you, say maybe you wanna' care for 365 days, right? You ain't got 365 days. You got it for one day, man. Well I tell you that one day man, better be your life man, because you know you could say oh man you could cry about the other 364 man, but you're gonna loose that one day man, and That's all you got. You gotta' call that love, man. That's what it is, man. If you got it today you don't wear it tomorrow, man. 'Cause you don't need it. 'Cause as a matter of fact, as we discovered on the train, tomorrow never happens, man. It's all the same f*** day man.
Some time ago, I posted this item on stress and the law in the career advice category:
Lex Anteinternet: Unsolicted career advice for the student No. 2: S...: Quite some time ago I wrote a couple of posts that are basically directed at people pondering the law as a career; one being a Caveat Aucto...
With lawyers its very much the case. At least it is in some branches of the law. I frankly don't know about every area of the law, as one of the things about the law is that law is a career "field", not one single career house, so to speak. Lawyers who do one thing often don't know much if anything about lawyers who do something else. So what I can say is that at least for people who handle litigation this is true. They basically never are totally away from work.

Most attorneys that tell you they are concerned with their ‘lifestyle’ and ‘balance’ never really amount to much in the law, and that is OK, because not everyone is cut out for practicing law in a high-pressure environment,"
As an aside here, I wish the ABA would get over this entire concept of "Big Law". It may be just me, but I really think the "Big Law" they conceive of was an institution that last existed in the form they think of it some decades ago. Almost ever issue of the ABA journal's email features some article about some Big Law firm laying off a drove of people. As The New Republic explored some time ago, the "white shoe" firms aren't what they once were. Far more lawyers of all types practice outside of Big Law than in it, and as a result, nearly ever discussion of "Big Law" expands out the definition until firms that probably wouldn't recognize themselves as "Big Law" are included in the discussion. It's time for "Big Law" as a term, to go the way that the term "The Big Three" did in regards to automobile manufacturing.

Thomas Jefferson. lawyer, farmer, politician. He had a nice life work balance, but I doubt that was because he'd been counseled to have one.

This wouldn't mean, of course, that a person ought to surrender themselves to the office and ponder nothing else, although there are plenty of lawyers who do just that. Rather, what it means is that a person should realize that their life is their life and incorporate a worthwhile approach to their work and profession within that. That isn't possible for every line of work in the same way. In many, indeed most, lines of work a person is actually free to be more themselves and bring their strong loves with them, something that's an irony about a professional life. That is, for people who work jobs that fall outside this scope of things, lets say mechanics, or mail carriers, etc., their personality can be actually more reflected in their daily lives as nobody expects them to serve in the capacity of their occupation without end. For people who are doctors or lawyers, etc., this isn't true and people will indeed both identify with you constantly in your profession, even where you with they wouldn't, and the profession will follow you around night and day no matter what.
Monday at the Bar: Courthouses of the West: Campbell County Courthouse, Gillette Wyoming
This is the Campbell County Courthouse in Gillette Wyoming. The courthouse has been recently added on to, but the additions match so well that it is not really possible to tell. The court houses the district and circuit courts for Wyoming's Eighth Judicial District.
Campbell County's war memorial is located on the same block as the courthouse.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Monday, May 3, 1915. In Flanders Fields.
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae of the Canadian Army, whom a great aunt of mine served with, wrote In Flanders Fields.
Italy officially left the Triple Alliance.
Russian forces retreated from Gorlice.
Australian, New Zealand and British forces withdrew from Baby 700, a hill at Gallipoli after sustaining 1,000 casualties.
Last edition:
Friday, April 30, 1915. Events on either side of Turkey.
Sunday Morning Scene: Churches of the West: Christ Episcopal Church, Glenrock Wyoming
Friday, May 1, 2015
Some Gave All: Santa Fe Plaza Obelisk, Santa Fe Plaza, Santa Fe ...
Holscher's Hub: Route 66. When the highways used to run throught town.
Sena Plaza
Lex Anteinternet: Working around the clock
Lex Anteinternet: Working around the clock: We are told that, prior to the influence of labor unions, working hours were long (and conditions dangerous) and about the only day anyone go...Examples:
Conducting business. . . at Bandalier National Monument.
Painted Bricks: Evangelo's, Santa Fe New Mexico
Painted Bricks: Evangelo's, Santa Fe New Mexico:
We also posted this on our blog Some Gave All.Tavern sign for Evangelo's in Santa Fe, New Mexico, featuring the famous Life Magazine cover photograph of Angelo Klonis, the founder of the tavern. The late Mr. Klonis was a soldier during World War Two when this photograph of him ws taking by Life photographer Eugene Smith. Konis, a Greek immigrant, opened this bar in his adopted home town in the late 1960s, at which time his identify as the soldier photographed by Smith was not widely known.
There's some interesting things going on in this scene, that are worth at least noting. For one thing, we have an iconic photograph of a U.S. soldier in World War Two, which is often mistaken for a photograph of a Marine given the helmet cover, appearing on the sign for a cocktail lounge in 2014. Sort of unusual, but the fact that it was owned by teh soldier depicted explains that.
Note also, however, the dove with the olive branch, the symbol of peace. Interesting really. Perhaps a reflection of the views of the founder, who was a Greek immigrant who located himself in Santa Fe, went to war and then came back to his adopted home town.
All on a building that is in the local adobe style, which not all of the buildings in downtown Santa Fe actually were when built.
I don't know what all we can take away from this, but it sends some interesting messages, intentional or not, to the careful observer.
The Big Speech: Roosevelt on Leadership
Theodore Roosevelt
Thursday, April 30, 2015
The Oldest House in the United States, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Friday, April 30, 1915. Events on either side of Turkey.
The Royal Navy Division landed at Gallipoli.
15,000 Armenian refugees were allowed into Van on the thesis that it would strain the city's food supply.
Last edition:
Thursday, April 29, 1915. Things in Africa and Arabia.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Thursday, April 29, 1915. Things in Africa and Arabia.
Senussi rebels defeated a force of Italians at Gasr Bu Hadi, Libya.
Italy was not yet a combatant in the Great War.
A small force of British colonial troops defeated a much larger German force at a fort in British Nigeria.
Survivors of the SMS Emden arrived in Al Wajh on the Red Sea where they'd connect with the Hejez railway.
Last edition:
Tuesday, April 27, 1915. Advance at Gallipoli.
Working around the clock
The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: