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While we’re on the topic of stupid blog tricks, I got this telephone call yesterday: “I was just googling my name, and I saw it on your blog. I want you to remove it.”
Um . . . okay. Who is this?
“Jeff Deutsch. “
I know who Jeff Deutsch is. Jeff writes the excellent but sporadic Building [...]
Mark Bennett | March 5, 2010
Findlaw is looking for a dreckblog writer:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: - Track legal news and developments on a daily basis, using multiple information sources - Write blog posts reporting on legal news and related legal information of interest to a consumer audience, under the direction of an editor - Work with FindLaw Social Media Team to optimize blog [...]
Mark Bennett | March 3, 2010
As illustrated by the ‘problems’ firms are experiencing with X and Y geners, there has been a global values evolution. These generations are less willing to accept the same incursions on their family and social lives in return for rewards in the future. They are also less tolerant of organisations that fail to give them [...]
Mark Bennett | February 5, 2010
Dan Hull (What About Clients) writes (again—it’s a recurring theme on his blog) about anonymous blogging and commenting:
This blog does not publish anonymous comments. Absent compelling reasons, nameless blogosphere participants, in our view, are rarely worth anyone’s time, thought, or respect–even when they think and say brilliant things. Anonymous writers have already “discounted” themselves. They [...]
Mark Bennett | January 18, 2010
A yearly Defending People tradition.
Mark Bennett | January 8, 2010
Here is The Question: Why do you defend people who you know to be factually guilty?
The question is often phrased as “How . . .” or “How can you sleep at night when you . . .” but those demand smartass answers like “very well” or “on a pillowcase full of hundred-dollar bills.”
Typically, the laypeople [...]
Mark Bennett | January 1, 2010
I start the new year with my first-ever stalker, Wayne Conley.
Wayne Conley was dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Army after being convicted in a general court-martial of instigating and participating in the gang rape of an unconscious soldier, and obstructing justice regarding that crime. He’s a registered sex offender (deservedly so, unlike many) who [...]
Mark Bennett | December 24, 2009
Some folks like to “quote” Edmund Burke on evil:
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Aside from the fact that the quote is quite bogus (see the link), it’s wrong. In order for evil to triumph, it is not sufficient that good people not act; they [...]
Mark Bennett | December 3, 2009
I’ve started a new blog, Social Media Tyro (“because the world doesn’t need any more self-professed experts”). I won’t be writing extra posts, but I’ll be putting the social-media related posts (including online advertising and marketing) there instead of here so that I can focus Defending People a little more narrowly.
Mark Bennett | December 3, 2009
In The Ethics of Pathos, Part I I discussed Walter Olson’s ethical question, “Should lawyers trying cases make an appeal to jurors’ reptile brains?” While writing that post I came to the conclusion that it’s not unethical to use even the darkest of persuasive arts (I’m a student of hypnosis and other trial technologies) to [...]
