If you were among the many who extended the holiday vacation all the way through the short week following New Year’s Day, you may not have seen the year-end retrospective articles that I posted last week, including my list of the Top Ten D&O Stories in 2012 (here), and my year-end analysis of
Post-Holiday Quick Hits
This mix of items from around the web may be just the thing after a long weekend of leftover turkey –even though we are well aware that nothing can come close to a heaping helping of Turkey Tetrazzini three days after Thanksgiving.
Adding up the Likely Legal Costs from H-P’s Autonomy Accounting Scandal: Last
Storm Remnants: Interesting Items That Blew Past Our Screens
Can I just say that I find it mighty depressing that everyone is talking about Hurricane Sandy in the past tense, as if the storm were already done and gone? Here in Northeast Ohio, as I write this blog post on Thursday evening, the rain continues to fall and the cold and gloomy damp lingers on.
Justice Kagan at the University of Michigan Law School
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