{"id":5153,"date":"2004-11-28T17:49:07","date_gmt":"2004-11-28T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/11\/28\/mounds-of-coal\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:11","slug":"mounds-of-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/11\/28\/mounds-of-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"mounds of coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a2809\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,Serif;font-size: x-small\">. . . no, they&#8217;re not Santa&#8217;s gifts for naughty weblog editors.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got a much better present<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,Serif;font-size: x-small\"> for you: a pair of haiku from <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/07\/12#a1801\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,Serif;color: #ff0000;font-size: x-small\">Rebecca Lilly<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,Serif;font-size: x-small\"> (use our search box to find more):<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\">First snow<br \/>\nthe white mounds of coal<br \/>\nbeside the closed station<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Cold autumn twilight <span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/NewRes2negsmall.gif\" alt=\"NewRes2 neg small\" \/> <\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nthe garden slope&#8217;s stepping stones<br \/>\nedging out of line<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><span>. . . <\/span><span>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=stripbooks&amp;field-keywords=\"><em><span style=\"color: black\">A\u00a0New Resonance 2<\/span><\/em><\/a><span style=\"color: black\"> <\/span>(Red Moon Press, 2001)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,Serif;font-size: xx-small\">credits: &#8220;First snow&#8221; &#8212; <em>Brussels Sprout<\/em> 9:3<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,Serif;font-size: xx-small\">&#8220;cold autumn twilight&#8221; &#8212; <em>Modern Haiku<\/em> XXXI: 2<\/span><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><\/p>\n<li><span><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><span>by\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/stories\/storyReader$379\"><span style=\"color: red\">dagosan<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>:<\/span><\/span><span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/span><\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\">finally touching <\/span><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\">her face &#8211; <\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\">&#8220;are your fingers<br \/>\nalways this cold?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[Nov. 28, 2004]<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><span><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><span><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/yinyang.gif\" alt=\"yin yang\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/06\/27#a1700\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;color: black\"><em>one-breath\u00a0pundit<\/em><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><em> <\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Thanks to a pointer from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benefitscounsel.com\/archives\/001287.html\"><span style=\"color: black\">BenefitsBlog<\/span><\/a> today, I learned that<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">.<\/span>\n<div><span><span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">&#8220;Web logs are referred to in Chinese as <em>bo ke<\/em>, which is phonetically similar to the<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"> word &#8216;blog&#8217;, but also has a literal meaning of <em>rich or abundant traveler.&#8221; <\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">(<em>Asia Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/atimes\/China\/FG22Ad04.html\"><span style=\"color: black\">article<\/span><\/a> on weblogs in China, July 22, 2004)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Hmm, why didn&#8217;t they come up with\u00a0terminology that sounds like barfing?\u00a0 Such elitists! <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/span><\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<ul><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Jerry <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elawyerblog.org\/archives\/000984.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;color: #000000\">Lawson\u00a0echoes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"> Carolyn <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myshingle.com\/my_shingle\/2004\/11\/if_youre_going_.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Elefant&#8217;s complaint<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">, in response\u00a0to\u00a0proposed <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunherald.com\/mld\/thesunherald\/10116956.htm\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;color: #000000\">changes<\/span><\/a> in Mississippi\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><em>pro bono<\/em> rules, that\u00a0&#8220;Solos can&#8217;t delegate their pro bono obligation to other lawyers, so why<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"> should biglaw attorneys have that ability?<span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span> <\/span>&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 As I have mentioned on other occasions to<\/span> Carolyn, she seems to leave her lawyer skills behind when advocating for solos, and instead<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"> sounds like the mother of a juvenile delinquent or like a whiny adolescent, for whom it is always <em>unfair<\/em> when someone else gets to do something they can&#8217;t do.\u00a0 Seems to me:<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Being a solo is not like being born into a caste from which one can never escape.\u00a0 Indeed, <\/span>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Carolyn&#8217;s shtick is\u00a0mostly as a cheerleader pointing out the <em>advantages<\/em> of being a solo, as<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"> compared to being in a BigLaw firm.\u00a0 Here in the real world even Good Things have downsides.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">What would we say if BigLaw partners complained they should not have to be responsible for <\/span>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">monitoring the behavior of associates, because solos don&#8217;t have similar ethical obligations?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Or, they shouldn&#8217;t have to pay the bar or CLE fees for any employees, since solos don&#8217;t have to?<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Do some rules here on Earth affect the poor differently than the rich, and the big differently than the small? <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Of course, they do. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">I&#8217;d suggest using traditional equal protection analysis to see whether the differences <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">are malicious, undue\u00a0or unfair before crying foul &#8212; and before crying wolf so often no one cares to listen. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/span><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<ul><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">It just came to my attention that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;c2coff=1&amp;q=%22yabut+generation%22\"><span style=\"color: black\">Google Search<\/span><\/a> today for &#8220;yabut generation&#8221; yields no results. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/profyabutsmall.jpg\" alt=\"prof yabut small\" \/><\/span>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">This weblog did, however, come in at #3 and #4 for the quote-mark-less search yabut generation&gt;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">As the home of Prof. Yabut, we are happy to use the phrase first right here &#8212; 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