There is a cultural difference between Australians and Americans that I have noticed. Americans are far more willing to be self-promotional. Australians are hesitant to start blogs and will often make their tweets private on Twitter. So I guess the big question is, can social media work for you if your aren’t willing to be…
(as originally published by the National Law Journal on 2/24/2011) I had the chance recently to complete a childhood dream of mine and see a duckbilled platypus up close at the Healesville Sanctuary in the Yarra Valley of Australia. It truly is a strange creature it’s a warm-blooded mammal, yet it has a beak, webbed…
(as originally published by the National Law Journal on 2/10/2011) There once was a man who bought a truck and decided to start selling watermelons. Every morning, he would load up the truck, drive to the farmers’ market and fill his truck with watermelons, paying $1 for each melon. He then would drive around selling…
(as originally published by the National Law Journal on 2/3/2011) The other day my son was sitting next to me while I did some work on the computer. He started pushing icons on my screen with his finger. My computer doesn’t have a touch screen like my iPad, so nothing happened, but it demonstrated an…
By guest blogger and law student: Jon Ivanco Professionalism is all in the details. I can’t tell you how many times people make this mistake with something as basic and simple as my name. I can tell you though how much it bothers me. I can also tell you that it bothers me more and…
I’ve had a number of people ask me in the last few month, “why do you go to Australia?” So I thought I would share the story real quick of how I made it to Australia last year and why I’m going again for a month this next Monday. 2009 started out as a rough…
(as originally published by the National Law Journal on 12/9/2010) There is an old story about an African farmer who learned from a visitor that diamonds had been discovered. This farmer was so excited that he sold his farm and spent the rest of his life traveling Africa in search of diamonds. Never finding them,…