{"id":4352,"date":"2006-01-31T18:36:06","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T22:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/01\/31\/potlawk-dont-you-just-love-cu"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:12","slug":"potlawk-dont-you-just-love-cute-lawyer-puns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/01\/31\/potlawk-dont-you-just-love-cute-lawyer-puns\/","title":{"rendered":"potlawk (don’t you just love cute lawyer puns?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A<\/FONT><\/STRONG>re you calendar-challenged?  You are not alone.  Yesterday, I spent the   \"deskCalR\"<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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entire day knowing<\/EM> it was January 30th, and believing today would be the first <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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day of February.  As a self-help  measure that I hope will be of assistance <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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to those similarly afflicted, I found a link today to a rock’n’roll version of <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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30 Days Has September, April, June and November Song<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>, performed <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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by Jack Hartman.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny Like many others, Monica Bay, the Common Scold<\/A><\/EM>, was saddened <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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to learn of <\/FONT>Wendy Wasserstein<\/FONT><\/A>‘s death, at 55, from lymphonia. In <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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response, Monica wrote a truly <\/FONT>moving appreciation<\/FONT><\/A>, titled “Sweet <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Dreams, Sweet Twin.<\/EM>”  It concludes, “Yesterday, the lights of Broad-<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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way dimmed in your memory, but your light will remain fierce in our <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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hearts.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>“<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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\"tiny In a New York Times<\/EM> op\/ed piece today, “28 Days to Save Darfur<\/A>,” <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Kenneth H. Bacon makes a very good recommendation to the U.S.,<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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as it starts a month at the head of the UN Security Council:<\/FONT> <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>                                                                             <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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“The United States has a vexing and inconsistent record on <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Sudan. Periods of engagement have been followed by longer, <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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and troubling, periods of inaction. Now, with a month to lead <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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the Security Council, the United States has a chance to <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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genocide.” <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\"phone  Ever striving to help lawyers provide Perfect Client Service<\/A><\/EM>, <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Patrick Lamb reminds us that Speed [Is] The Essential Ingredient<\/FONT><\/A>,<\/FONT> when it <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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comes to answering client email or phone calls.  Lamb says: <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Clients call when they do for a reason.  Its their reason and, <\/EM><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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most of the time, it is an important reason.  You are the <\/EM><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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SERVICE PROVIDER.  It is your job to honor their reasons. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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a coyote call<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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evening star<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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first blossoms<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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my cell phone<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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set to vibrate<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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winter hills—<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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what the truck’s insurance<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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paul m<\/FONT><\/A>. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“first blossoms” – Walking the Same Path<\/FONT><\/A>; Heron’s Nest VI:4 <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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 “a coyote call” – <\/FONT>Acorn<\/FONT><\/A> No. 6 (Spring 2001)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“first blossoms” – Hermitage<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/DIV>                                                                                                      <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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   Are you calendar-challenged?  You are not alone.  Yesterday, I spent the   entire day knowing it was January 30th, and believing today would be the first day of February.  As a self-help  measure that I hope will be of assistance to those similarly afflicted, I found a link today to a rock’n’roll version of 30 Days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-18c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12802,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions\/12802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}