On Friday September 7, 2012, the University of Michigan Law School dedicated its new South Building, an impressive new facility that beautifully complements the school’s venerable Law Quadrangle (see picture below). U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan delivered the keynote address at the dedication ceremony. (I attended the event because it coincided with my 30
Summer Time
One of the many gifts my wife brought to our marriage was a generations-long family tradition of spending summers in Pentwater, Michigan. If I were, like a true Michigander, to hold up the back of my left hand as a map of Michigan’s mitten-shaped lower peninsula, I would point to the outside knuckle at
Then and Now (Leaving Out Obvious Technology Differences)
Things That Were in my Childhood Home That Are Not in my Current Home: 
Whole milk
A popcorn popper
Waxed paper and Freezer Paper
Wooden tennis rackets
A Sears catalog
Pipe cleaners
Typewriter ribbon
A skate key
A coffee percolator
Green Stamps
Calamine lotion
Evening newspapers
A slide rule
Encyclopedia Britannica
Margarine
Camera film
The Travel Issue: Singapore Edition – And What I Learned in Asia
The final stop on The D&O Diary’s Asian Tour was the island city-state of Singapore. Located only about 60 miles north of the equator, Singapore is a sun-drenched commercial center that has managed despite its slight size to become one of the world’s wealthiest countries.
Prior to boarding my flight to Singapore, I purchased a bottle
The Travel Issue: Hong Kong Edition
The D&O Diary’s Asian mission continued this week, with Hong Kong the next stop on the itinerary following Beijing. If Beijing is a Chinese city wearing a new Western-style business suit, then Hong Kong is a Western city with a Chinese heart.
Hong Kong is topographically complicated; it is divided by bays, harbors and
The Travel Issue: Beijing Edition
The D&O Diary is on assignment in Asia this week, with a first stop in Beijing and with other Far Eastern stops scheduled after that. Even traveling “over the top,” Asia is very far away. When the flight progress monitor shows your plane traveling over Irkutsk and Ulan Bator, you know you are far from
The Travel Issue: Dublin Edition
On first encounter, three impressions immediately emerge regarding the throngs of pedestrians walking along O’Connell Street, the main thoroughfare in Dublin’s central district: first, everyone is incredibly young; second, they are a surprisingly diverse crowd; and third, there are a hell of a lot of babies in strollers everywhere you look.
The D&O Diary was
Lloyd’s and the London Market
The Lloyd’s Building, at 1 Lime Street in London, is the vital, dynamic heart of the London insurance market, as well as the historic center of the global insurance industry. The D&O Diary is on assignment in the U.K. this week, and one of the high points of the business itinerary was a tour
The Travel Issue: London Edition
The D&O Diary is on assignment in the British Isles this week, with the first stop on the itinerary in London. The London sojourn represented a return engagement to a familiar and favorite place, both for myself and for my 18 year-old son, who accompanied me.
Because we have seen most of the major
The Tech Issue: Apropos of iPad Apps
With a relatively recent purchase of an iPad 2, I have made a quantum leap in technology utilization. The iPad is not only a brilliant piece of technology in and of itself, but it is also a platform for a host of brilliant applications. Indeed, there are so many nifty applications that using my iPad