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A. Harrison Barnes, Founder and CEO, JD2BHow You Deal With Problems Will Determine Quality of Your Life
A. Harrison Barnes | Dated: 01-05-2009
One of the things I have learned throughout the years is that anyone can be up when things are going well. However, the real challenge is when things are not going well and there are problems. All businesses and all relationships go through problems. There is no such thing as an absence of problems. How you deal with problems will determine the quality of your life more than any other single thing. Far too few people know how to effectively deal with problems, and they end up having their lives sidetracked by these problems. The more you delay dealing with problems the more they build up. The more problems are allowed to build up the more difficult your life ends up becoming.
Last night my wife and I drove by a furniture store that is going out of business. It was a beautiful furniture store and used to be the nicest furniture store in Pasadena, where our company’s main office is. I went inside the furniture store and saw markdowns so extreme I could h.
Sheppard Mullin “Freezes” 2009 Salaries
Dated: 05-Jan-2009
If you’re an associate of AmLaw 100 firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, and you haven’t checked your email because you were busy figuring out whether to spend your big 2009 salary increase on a solid gold car bra for your BMW M6 Convertible or on that Lladro figurine that will complete your collection, [...]
Lakin Law Firm Renamed In Wake of Drug Scandal
Dated: 05-Jan-2009
The Lakin Law Firm has been renamed LakinChapman LLC, and former Appellate Court Judge Charles Chapman will join Brad Lakin as a named minority partner in the Wood River, Illinois firm. Chapman, 66, was a Madison County circuit judge from 1979 to 1988, when he has elected to the 5th District Appellate Court in Mount Vernon. Following [...]
Anti-virus Firm Doesn’t Want to Pay WilmerHale for “Luxury Hotel Rooms, Limousines and Bar Tabs”
Dated: 05-Jan-2009
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By Liz Jernigan
Marc Dreier, sole equity partner of New York firm Dreier LLP, has gotten himself into quite a predicament.The charges seem to mount against him daily, with the latest being SEC filings that allege funds are missing from clients' escrow accounts.Just last week Dreier was charged with impersonation in Canada and creating a $100 million dollar scam to obtain funds for his law firm.To top it off, Dreier (along with several others) and Dreier LLP are also being sued by Wachovia who alleges that a...
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Rachelle Ann Beal credits her professors as being the biggest influences in her law life so far.By Mahsa Khalilifar
''Ever since I was little, I either wanted to become a doctor or a lawyer,'' says 23-year-old Rachelle Ann Beal. She finally made a decision some years back between the two and is now venturing through her first year at the University of La Verne College of Law.
"In high school I volunteered at a hospital and didn't like it at all," she recalls. "Then in high school I joined Mock Trial, and we visited law firms and courthouses, and that was what helped me decide on this career path."
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Penn Law places great emphasis on what it calls ''cross-disciplinary studies,'' a fact...By Akbar Ali
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