Comments for Law and Conversation http://lawandconversation.com Storytelling through literature and other media from a lawyer's perspective. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:40:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Terror in literature and real life by Osayimwense Osa http://lawandconversation.com/2011/10/21/terror-in-literature-and-real-life/#comment-1056 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:40:59 +0000 http://lawandconversation.com/?p=3596#comment-1056 Right on the money:
I ’m shedding no tears at the death of Muammar Gaddafi, just as I shed none on learning of the deaths of Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, or any other brutal dictators.

But I’m not dancing in the streets over it, either.
Many critical minds share your feeling’

Interesting connections!
Isn’t it true that the great works of literature are timeless?

]]> Comment on To Tweet Or Not To Tweet? I’m TechnoLawyer’s Pick of the Week! by My BigLaw column: Five tips from the bench « Law and Conversation http://lawandconversation.com/2011/08/17/to-tweet-or-not-to-tweet-im-technolawyers-pick-of-the-week/#comment-1036 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:41:55 +0000 http://lawandconversation.com/?p=3364#comment-1036 [...] TechnoLawyer, incidentally, is well worth signing up for if you’re a lawyer. It provides useful articles for lawyers in all different practice settings, focused, of course, on how to use technology to help you practice law more efficiently. And it’s FREE. I’ve had warm and fuzzy feelings for TechnoLawyer ever since August 2011, when the company pic… [...]

]]> Comment on Looking back on 2011 and forward into 2012 by Helen Gunnarsson http://lawandconversation.com/2012/01/02/looking-back-on-2011-and-forward-into-2012/#comment-1003 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:34:54 +0000 http://lawandconversation.com/?p=3652#comment-1003 Pat, you are always so generous. I continue to thoroughly enjoy your posts, too!

]]> Comment on Looking back on 2011 and forward into 2012 by Pat http://lawandconversation.com/2012/01/02/looking-back-on-2011-and-forward-into-2012/#comment-1002 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:26:11 +0000 http://lawandconversation.com/?p=3652#comment-1002 I resolve to continue to thoroughly enjoy your essays, Helen–that’s one I’ll keep for sure. And that Dickens biography sounds like it has my name on it.

Oh, and glad you liked Hunger Games!

]]> Comment on Read this: more Jane Gardam, on marriage by Looking back on 2011 and forward into 2012 « Law and Conversation http://lawandconversation.com/2011/05/09/read-this-more-jane-gardam-on-marriage/#comment-1001 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:13:34 +0000 http://lawandconversation.com/?p=2728#comment-1001 [...] for his depiction of Australia’s treatment of the mentally ill who have committed crimes, and Jane Gardam’s wonderful “Old Filth” and “The Man in the Wooden Hat” for her portrait of a marriage from both spouses’ respective points of [...]

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