{"id":3850,"date":"2005-05-19T19:13:37","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T23:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/05\/19\/wistful-posting\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:43","slug":"wistful-posting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/05\/19\/wistful-posting\/","title":{"rendered":"WISTful posting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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reputable, expert or elegant than I.  Many of the quotations will be from sources <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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help more people discover some of the best thinkers on the legal profession and <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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on the <\/FONT>art and <\/FONT>craft of haiku.  Our first WISTful<\/EM> posting features Lee Gurga<\/A> on <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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haiku and Sol Linowitz<\/A> on lawyers.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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    “Wouldn’t it be great if there were a kind of poetry that could be <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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written anywhere, anytime, by anyone?  A kind of poetry that children <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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could enjoy yet even accomplished poets needed years to master?  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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A poetry with the simple aim of making us aware of life’s simple gifts <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and everyday joys?  An antidote to irony, consumerism, and narcissism?  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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A kind of poetry in which the best journals invited all excellent work, no <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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matter who the writer knew or did not know?<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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    “There is: haiku is that kind of poetry.”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Press, 2003), from the introduction, “An Invitation to Haiku.”<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Randy Brooks<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> from <\/FONT>Haiku: A Poet’s Guide<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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    “Where does the responsibility lie for safeguarding the integrity and reputation <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of the bar?  Obviously, with the bar associations, which have long held themselves <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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out as far more than mere social organizations for those ‘called to the bar.’  . . Few <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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economic developments or government actions are harmful or helpful to all lawyers . . .  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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But anything that harms the reputation of the bar harms all lawyers; anything that<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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helps the reputation of the bar helps all lawyers.”  [at 139]<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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    “The feeling that lawyers are not trustworthy is the most debilitating aspect of public <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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(and client) attitudes today, but most lawyers feel themselves directly affected by it <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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only on rare occasions.  Their own clients trust them — and should — and in their own <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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work they stay easily within the envelope of the rules.  But there is one area where few<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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lawyers can avoid discomfort when looking at their profession.  The rhetoric of the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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profession has long insisted that our system is one of ‘justice for all,’ that our court must <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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not ‘ration justice,’ but the visible truth is that we are not living up to our professed beliefs.”  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"SolLinowitz\"  by <\/FONT>Sol M. Linowitz<\/FONT><\/A>, from <\/FONT>The Betrayed Profession<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>: Lawyering at the <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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End of the Twentieth Century<\/EM>, with Martin Mayer (Scribners, 1994), from Chapter 7, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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The Job for the Bar Associations.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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– Gurga and Linowitz with be back in this space soon.-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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potluck<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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 \"quoteMarksLSN\"   <\/FONT><\/EM>Norm Pattis at Crime & Federalism<\/A><\/STRONG> thinks weblog pixels should be set in stone, once<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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posted.  Fedster, Kirby and I do some editing. <\/FONT> Let Norm <\/FONT>know your opinion here<\/FONT><\/A>.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny  Whether you’re into Jack Russell [not <\/EM>Daniels] terriers or the intricacies of antitrust conspiracy <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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theory, check out yesterday’s 9th Circuit <\/FONT>opinion<\/FONT><\/A> in The Jack Russell Terrier Network of Northern <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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California v. American Kennel Club, Inc.<\/EM> (May 17, 2005), Case No. 02-17264 (via <\/FONT>Fool in the Forest<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>).<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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JRTCA would not allow any members <\/FONT><\/FONT>to also be members of the American Kennel Club.  The 9th <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Circuit saw no combination upon which <\/FONT><\/FONT>to base the boycott claim.   I think the Court forgot — or<\/EM> <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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plaintiffs’ counsel forgot to allege — that the Terrier Association is per <\/EM><\/FONT>se<\/EM> a combination of its <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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members (competing breeders and sellers of JR terriers) and is therefore <\/FONT>capable of engaging in <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a boycott that violates the Sherman Act. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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