{"id":4453,"date":"2006-03-24T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/03\/24\/post-pourri\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:03","slug":"post-pourri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/03\/24\/post-pourri\/","title":{"rendered":"post-pourri . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

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. in which we try<\/EM> to keep our punditry as pithy as our poetry.<\/FONT>                                                                                          <\/FONT><\/P>
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\"tiny So, what happened in Smith v. Peterson<\/EM>?  Was son <\/FONT>Sheldon<\/FONT><\/A> able <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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to save the elderly Marvin and Goldie Smith from the abusive early-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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bather <\/FONT>upstairs?  As we reported<\/FONT><\/A> on Feb. 28, the initial hearing before <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Denver District Court Judge <\/FONT>Ronald Mullins<\/FONT> was set for March 22nd.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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I’ve been checking Google News, the Denver Post, Suz at Large<\/FONT><\/A>,<\/EM> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and Overlawyered<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A><\/FONT>, but haven’t learned a thing.   Could sanity have <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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prevailed and the case settled?  Do you know?  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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update<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM> (April 26, 2006) see our water-torture bathtub suit still afloat<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\"tiny  He usually gives advice (whether asked or not), but this week<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Prof. <\/FONT>Steve Bainbridge<\/FONT><\/A> has been seeking advice.  Steve , who has <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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been <\/FONT>trying out new mastheads had a poll <\/FONT>seeking input<\/FONT><\/A> on two new <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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designs, plus<\/FONT> his original classic version.   His favorite — a swatch <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of a waving <\/FONT>USA flag — was not well received, and the classic version <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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was edged <\/FONT>out by a slightly by an image of stock certificates.(yawn)  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Steve <\/FONT>is going to experiment.  I really like the color-scheme, tagline <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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[“Law, <\/FONT>Business, Economics, and Culture” — what’s left?] and image <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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on his <\/FONT>newest attempt — which looks like Bacchus, the god of wine.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Of <\/FONT>course, it could be Steve tending his vineyards.   Let Prof. B know <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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what you think?<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny You may recall that, two weeks ago, I was <\/FONT>checking<\/FONT><\/A> whether we <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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had AA or AAA lawyers trying to get to the top of the Yellow Pages <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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listings in my local phone books.  At the time, I noticed that one <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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attorney was near the front of the cue, because he listed himself <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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as <\/FONT>Abogado Warren Redlich<\/FONT><\/A> — to let consumers know, I presumed, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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that he speaks Spanish.   Serendipitously, I discovered this week <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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that lawyer Redlich is in fact the weblogger behind Albany Lawyer Blog<\/A><\/EM>. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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At his <\/FONT>firm website<\/FONT><\/A>, Warren uses the tagline “a lawyer who speaks your <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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language<\/EM>,” and <\/FONT><\/FONT>reports<\/FONT><\/A> that he speaks Spanish, Japanese and French, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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along with his native English.  Yes, I’m envious.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny Warren’s got an engaging style at his weblog, sharing <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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thoughts on criminal, personal injury, and traffic law, and <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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other <\/FONT>legal topics, as well as life as an almost-solo practi-<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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tioner <\/FONT>(see his <\/FONT><\/FONT>t<\/FONT><\/A>he busy lawyer<\/FONT><\/A>, where he’s doing an all-nighter <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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on a Saturday night — oh, to be young and healthy again.)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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He has also started a <\/FONT>Town Court Directory<\/FONT><\/A> for counties in <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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our region (and hopes<\/A> to go statewide and then spread to <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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NJ & MA).  Warren is finding many ways to differentiate <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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himself from the crowd, as he builds his law practice. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"washerN\"  The Wall Street Journal<\/EM> editorialized in favor of the Maytag – <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Whirlpool merger on March 13, stating that antitrust merger enforce-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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ment was irrelevant (and harmful) given globalization and the new<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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technology.  My friends at the American Antitrust Institute<\/A> offered <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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an op\/ed piece in rebuttal, which was rejected by WSJ.  Having their <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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own website, <\/FONT>AAI Responds to WSJ Editorial on Whirlpool-Maytag<\/FONT><\/A><\/DIV>
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(March 23, 2006), even posting the WSJ’s “Antitrust Spin Cycle<\/EM>.” <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Written by AAI Vice President, Diana Moss, the pro-antitrust piece <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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wins my vote. Among other insights, Moss points out two truths:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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nesses successfully serve consumers, stockholders will <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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have opportunities to profit. . . . And any merger that unduly <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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reduces competition is the enemy of the economy, even if <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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it benefits a limited number of shareholders.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“Another truth is that not all mergers are good deals for the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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shareholder. For the proof, we can look at Bruner’s Deals <\/I><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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from Hell <\/I>or Scherer and Ravenscraft’s more academic–<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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but equally compelling–Life After Takeover<\/I>. . . .<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“If shareholder interests are paramount–as proponents of the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Whirlpool\/Maytag dicta <\/I>would attest—then the lessons of <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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history recommend caution in equal measure to the enthu-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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siasm for eliminating antitrust oversight. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“. . . These truths also recognize the symbiotic relationship <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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between consumers and shareholders. Together, they drive <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the need for antitrust policies that provide a flexible framework <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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for allowing pro-competitive deals to go through while stopping <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the harmful ones. That is why one important component of <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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merger analysis is figuring out whether the cost savings a <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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merger’s proponents claim it will produce are genuine.”<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Granted, this post got a little longer than I had hoped.  Let me make <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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it up to you with a handful of haiku from Lee Gurga<\/A>, the midwest <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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dentist haijin:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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spring horse auction —<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a cluster of Amishmen whispering <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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through their beards<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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sweat steaming<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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from a team of geldings;<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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farm dog calling<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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calling to her echo<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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lee gurga<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT>from <\/FONT><\/FONT>Fresh Scent<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> (Brooks Books,1998)<\/FONT>   <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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except: “fishermen’s cars” – The Haiku Anthology<\/EM> (3rd Ed); <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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  The Measure of Emptiness<\/EM> (1991)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                                                                                                          Abogado Redlich<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM>  \"WRedlichMug\"<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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