{"id":10433,"date":"2008-12-29T12:35:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T17:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/?p=10433"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:13","slug":"2008-melts-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/12\/29\/2008-melts-away\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 melts away"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> A<\/strong><\/em>s the old year comes to a close, the only bakers I want to be contemplating are Mama G., (Aunt) Grace Papagni, Sylvia Briber, and other selfless souls who have been stuffing the entire f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang with all sorts of Christmas cookies and similar treats over the past week.<\/p>\n

empty cookie tin \u2014
\nletting out last year\u2019s
\nsanta suit<\/p>\n

\n

frontdoor
\nto curb \u2013
\npine needles and tinsel<\/p>\n

…. by dagosan<\/a><\/em> – from “Holiday Haiku from Schenectady<\/a>“<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, I’ve been spending far too much time the last two days responding to Ron Baker and Ed Kless, who are defending Value Pricing (their version of vale billing) in comments to a prior post<\/a> here at f\/k\/a<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\" . . . .\u00a0 \"\" D<\/em>espite his adopting a new-agey, feel-good image, and condemning hourly billing as unethical, it seems quite clear to me that Value Pricing guru Ron Baker wants lawyers to charge (and clients to pay) higher fees than can be generated using hourly billing. Value Pricing is the mechanism he touts — in books, seminars, private consultations, articles, and more — as the way to achieve those premium fees.<\/p>\n

If that topic interests you, click the above link (and see our prior post<\/a> and the links therein).\u00a0 For another perspective on a topic that kept us busy at this weblog again in 2008, see the Washington Post<\/em> article “Laws to Track Sex Offenders Encouraging Homelessness<\/a>” (via The Moderate Voice<\/em><\/a>, Dec. 27, 2008).<\/p>\n

holiday thaw
\na trooper emerges
\nfrom the snowmelt mist<\/p>\n

… by dagosan<\/em><\/p>\n

The f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang would much prefer to be focusing on more pleasant topics.\u00a0 Like seasonal haiku and senryu, and the wonderful sunset last night along the Mohawk River (at the end of my block of Washington Avenue, in the Schenectady Stockade), which I tried to capture with my Canon Powershot.<\/p>\n

rising river…
\nsandbaggers pass
\na brown paper bag<\/p>\n

.. by Ed Markowski<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

— looking eastward into Riverside Park; Dec. 28, 2008 —<\/p>\n

\n

year\u2019s end
\nthe bartender
\nblocks my reflection<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026 by Tom Painting – The Heron\u2019s Nest<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

New Year\u2019s Eve –
\nthe lentil soup
\nagain<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026 by Tom Clausen – from Homework<\/em> (Snapshot Press 2000)<\/p>\n

\n

blue sky
\nbehind bare branches
\nyear-end bonus<\/p>\n

…. by David A. Giacalone – Legal Studies Forum<\/em> XXIX:1 (2005)<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"<\/a> ……………….. \"\"<\/a> ..<\/p>\n

.. the view west toward the Western Gateway Bridge; Dec. 28, 2008 —<\/p>\n

last week of the year
\nice floes rush
\nto the waterfall<\/p>\n

… by David Giacalone – Roadrunner Haiku Journal<\/em> (Feb. 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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