CLE FOLLIES: TOPICAL, DESIGN, AND PRESENTATIONAL ERRORS
WHAT'S CLE ABOUT EVEN AT LUNCH Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D, J.D., Etc.* Maxim: Avoid accepting invitations to give supposedly amusing lunch talks at CLE "conferences." It's thankless and blunder ridden. BACKGROUND Several years ago, I was asked...
CLEs: Lessons Regarding Lectures and Programs–Part I
Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D, J.D., Etc.* 1300 West Lynn Suite 208 Austin, Texas 78703 (o) 512-296-2594 (c) 512-656-0503 mquinn@msqlaw.com *Resume: www.michaelseanquinn.com I have been giving CLE lectures almost regularly for 15 years, or so. Generally speaking, there are...
“Cyber-[Somethings]”–A Readily Rejectable Revolutionary Nomenclature
No policy of insurance should ever be named "Cyberworld Insurance" or "Insurance for the Cyberworld" or anything of the like. This blog explains why. Discussions of the Internet and it's numerous "cousins" haft to use language naming the group or set of...
Insurance Coverage Opinions
A Very Small Bit of Insurance Law History Ever wonder what the early history of coverage opinions was? When was an early one written in a formal mercantile context involving reinsurance? Here is a possibility. It arose in the context of reinsurance....
“Breadwinner Moms” & Law Firms
The Pew Research Center just published a report entitled "Breadwinner Moms." It is the talk of the "daily talk shows" or the "argument shows." What people have love to talk about is that the report is said to show that 40%, or so of married women who have...
Insurance History
Does this sound familiar? Insurance business could be encouraged by offices maintaining a good relationship with the building industry....Most fire offices had surveyors on their staff, either a permanent salarymen, or employed on a casual basis....It was important...
Legal Ethics: Excessive Fees (An Old Story)
Legal Fees and Legal History Many say that the legal profession is going to hell in part because of excessive fees. Some critics carry on like this is a new thing which has cropped up by as a result of the fact that the practice of law is now a business as opposed to...
Worn-Out Lawyer Cliches
When a word is used too often, it wears out, and becomes insignificant, unconvincing, and ignored by the listener or the reader. Some terms used by lawyers are like that. Important terms become distractions of no interest. Some even become...
INSURANCE CONTRACT [POLICY] LANGUAGE — SOME HISTORY
COVERAGE CLAUSE OF LATE 14th CENTURY ITALIAN MARITIME POLICY Here is the coverage language of a policy issued in Florence in 1397: Covered Perils: "of God, the seas, of nations, fire, jettisons restraints of lords [perhaps princes?] or peoples, or any other...
INSURANCE CONTRACT LANGUAGE: MARITIME INSURANCE
EARLY "PURE" CONTRACT OF INSURANCE It has been said that the following is part of the first transaction which was purely one of insurance. It called itself a "free and friendly loan," but that often simply means that it is insurance. Maybe that average was...
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