I set out yesterday morning to try to get back to Fayetteville. It didn’t turn out quite that way. My flight left at 3:00 p.m., so I got up and got dressed, checked e-mail once again, read the paper, grabbed a quick bite of breakfast and headed to the airport. The cab driver was talking about [...]
This morning I was a little bit stir crazy, so I went for a walk and found a little strip mall down from the hotel and had lunch at a McCormick and Schmick. It was a delicious seafood lunch. I walked around the mall and browsed a little bit, but was not in much of a [...]
Today the National Association of Law Placement (NALP) hosted the breakfast which began at 7:30 a.m. The speakers shared a lot of very interesting information with us. Large firms have clearly been affected by the economy. There have been a number of lay offs which puts an increasing strain on the career services office to [...]
Today began at 7:00 a.m. The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) hosted a breakfast from 7:00-8:30 a.m. The night before, Sunday night, when we were all out to dinner we’d teased Dan Bernstein about the need to be there at 7:00 a.m. since we were all out together the night before. He gave us a [...]
Sunday bright and early, the Council Meeting began with a discussion of the leadership skills training program. The goal of the leadership skills training as I mentioned is to provide an introduction to the Section and its activities to people who have demonstrated a significant interest in the activities of the Section. This engendered a [...]
Needless to say, the alarm really seemed early when it went off at 4:00 a.m., but I was able to make it. One of the interesting things that happened (those of you who have followed the blog for a while know that I tend to get into conversations with cab drivers) was that the cab [...]
The Mid-Winter Bar Meeting has two tracks of CLE and I attended Track 2 because a number of our alumni were presenting on that track. In the morning I missed George Niblock’s presentation because I had breakfast with Linda Lou Moore who has an exciting idea that I hope I’ll be able to share with [...]
Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m., Michele Payne and her husband Jimmy (who is quite the honey-do), picked me up at my house. (We have an expression in the sorority when a guy helps out all the time like that that he is a honey-do, as in honey do this and honey do that.) Jimmy is [...]
January 21st began with a busy morning of catch up given the previous day’s events. That was followed by a wonderful lunch with Don Bland, Senior Managing Director of Outreach in the College of Business. Don has been a friend for a number of years and I really treasure his advice. He was a Wal-Mart [...]
Happy Birthday to Prof. Mary Beth Matthews! That day was a very profound and moving day for me. As you all might recall, it was the inauguration of our 44th President, President Barack Obama. His inauguration holds great significance for me as a lawyer, as a person of color, and as someone who has championed [...]