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Monday, July 30, 2007

RTURO FERMANDOIS

ARTURO FERMANDOIS
Promover la Negociación por Ramas de Manera Fáctica Es Inconstitucional

     
   
     

. ¿QUE DUDA CABE?

El abogado constitucionalista, que asesoró a la Alianza por Chile en 2006, en el requerimiento que objetó el nuevo concepto de empresa que buscaban imponer parlamentarios socialistas en la ley de subcontratación, advierte que si los trabajadores de labores externalizadas de Codelco negocian "con quien no es su empresa, sino la dueña de la obra o faena, están yendo más allá de lo que la Carta Fundamental tolera", al tiempo que analiza las transgresiones en las que podrían incurrir parlamentarios y ministros de Estado.

—¿Cómo ve la polémica en torno a Codelco y los trabajadores subcontratados, a nueve meses de la publicación de la ley que regula el trabajo en régimen de subcontratación y el funcionamiento de las empresas de servicios transitorios?
—Lo primero que hay que hacer, es aclarar que el objetivo de la ley de subcontratación es facilitar que los trabajadores subcontratados sean pagados en todas sus prestaciones laborales, por quien los contrató, o bien por el dueño de la obra o faena en la cual ese dueño está trabajando. Y que la ley no se creó para introducir negociaciones colectivas por ramas de actividad o para facilitar que los trabajadores subcontratados negocien colectivamente con el dueño de la obra de faena. Eso es otro escenario y otra realidad que no ha sido abordada por la ley de subcontratación y que difícilmente lo podría hacer, por el marco constitucional vigente.
De manera que, lo primero que llama la atención es que se convide a la ley de subcontratación, para el conflicto de Codelco. Lo único que podría hacer oportuna la aplicación de la ley de subcontratación, es la falta de pago, la omisión en las prestaciones laborales de los trabajadores subcontratados, en cuyo caso, efectivamente se podría llegar hasta el dueño de la obra o faena que es Codelco. Pero según mis antecedentes lo que ocurre no es eso, sino que trabajadores subcontratados buscan mejorar sus condiciones de remuneraciones en una especie de negociación colectiva.
Se está acusando al ministro del Trabajo de imponer por la vía de los hechos, la negociación interempresas o por rama de actividad que no contempla la ley.
—Es claro que algunos sectores desde hace mucho tiempo aspiran a que exista negociación por rama de actividad. La Constitución, en el artículo 19, número 16, inciso quinto, sólo contempla la negociación con la empresa en que laboran los trabajadores. Este es un eje central de la organización laboral y económica chilena. Y si alguien desea modificar este eje, puesto que se mira con nostalgia a las antiguas negociaciones por ramas, entonces lo procedente es plantear el debate de una reforma constitucional, la cual va a requerir en este caso de dos tercios de los diputados y senadores en ejercicio para ser aprobada.
Fácticamente, promover una negociación por rama, disfrazada de ley de subcontratación, es completamente inconstitucional y no es ético.
—¿Por qué?

—Porque se distorsionan los fines de la ley de subcontratación; se le desprestigia y probablemente se le perjudica para los objetivos lícitos y nobles para los que fue aprobada, que son otorgar mayor cobertura a las prestaciones naturales de un trabajador.
—¿Cree que en esta negociación de Codelco confluyen esos elementos?

—No tengo todos los antecedentes para emitir juicios de lo que ocurre con Codelco. Lo que aparece de público conocimiento, que cualquier ciudadano puede apreciar, es que los trabajadores subcontratados han promovido el ejercicio del derecho de petición, una negociación con quien no es su empleador y eso, como he explicado, no tiene sustento legal.
—Una cosa es que los trabajadores lo pidan y otra es que autoridades avalen esa situación.
—Si autoridades avalan las peticiones concretas de una de las partes envueltas en un conflicto laboral, hay que distinguir.
—¿Entre qué situaciones?
Si estas autoridades son parlamentarios, el artículo 60 de la Constitución contiene una norma muy terminante y draconiana, que es la causal de cesación en el cargo.
Distinto es que un parlamentario se interese por un problema, a que se alinee con la posición de uno de los dos sectores, supongamos el de los trabajadores, e influya ante las autoridades, eso tiene una sanción en la Constitución.
—¿Y si las autoridades son administrativas?
—Si son ministros, subsecretarios, no existe una causal precisa, como la que existe para los parlamentarios. Pero evidentemente tienen responsabilidades, como todos, que los obligan a cumplir la ley, no la pueden infringir y ahí se puede iniciar un proceso cuando un ministro no la cumple.
—¿La acusación constitucional?
—Efectivamente.
—Al ministro del Trabajo, Osvaldo Andrade, se le acusa de impulsar este conflicto y la senadora Matthei (UDI), y el diputado Nicolás Monckeberg (RN), afirman que está al borde de la ley y que impulsó una negociación interempresas que no existe. De ser efectivo, ¿eso es causal de una acusación constitucional?
—No quiero pronunciarme en el caso específico, hay que tener todos los antecedentes. Pero, lo que dice el artículo 52 de la Constitución es que se puede acusar a un ministro cuando infringe la Constitución o las leyes, o las deja sin ejecución. Es una causal genérica que todos entendemos debe ser una infracción significativa, visible de la ley.
—¿Por qué se considera que lo que pasa en Codelco es una negociación interempresas?
—Lo que puedo decir como experto constitucional, es que la Constitución asegura como derecho a los trabajadores el negociar con su empresa. El fallo del Tribunal Constitucional del 2006, en que objetó el artículo 183 Ter del Código del Trabajo que venía en el proyecto de ley de subcontratación, tuvo precisamente el mérito de mantener vigentes las identidades legales de las distintas empresas. Entonces, si los trabajadores subcontratistas de Codelco pretenden negociar con quien no es su empresa, sino la empresa dueña de la obra o faena, están yendo más allá de lo que la Constitución tolera para efectos de negociaciones colectivas.
Por excepción, los trabajadores subcontratistas pueden demandar a Codelco para el caso de un ilícito consistente en su propio empleador no les pague las remuneraciones, las cotizaciones previsionales, etc. Pero si están dirigiéndose en el marco de una negociación colectiva, entonces estamos hablando aquí de una negociación colectiva que no está tolerada por la Constitución.
—Es decir, ¿de alguna manera se está torciendo el espíritu de la ley de subcontratación?
—Efectivamente, si lo que se pretende es invocar la ley de subcontratación para que trabajadores subcontratados, que están al día en las prestaciones laborales de sus contratos, mejoren esas prestaciones laborales, es una distorsión de la A a la Z, tanto de la ley, como de la Constitución.
—Muchos parlamentarios centran sus críticas en que personas que cumplen igual función, una contratada por Codelco y otra subcontratada, ganan distinto.
—Eso es inherente a la realidad económica en virtud de la cual la subcontratación es un elemento de eficiencia en el mundo empresarial. Esa es la razón por la cual precisamente la subcontratación ha sido un vehículo que ha promovido la eficiencia en los distintos países, porque suele ocurrir que estos trabajadores subcontratados son tan eficientes como aquellos que están contratados directamente, por una menor remuneración, y eso es un elemento central del desarrollo económico. Es una realidad que la ley nunca se ha propuesto impedir, porque sería un verdadero suicidio para el desarrollo chileno.
—El Ministerio del Trabajo está fiscalizando el cumplimiento de la ley de subcontratación.
—El ministerio del Trabajo tiene todas las atribuciones para fiscalizar la ley, pero jamás podría llegar a objetar el que distintas personas tengan distintas remuneraciones. Eso es parte de la vida, de la diversidad de la realidad económica.
—¿Qué precedente se puede sentar, si Codelco llega a un acuerdo bajo la presión y una interpretación errónea de la ley de subcontratación?
—Sería nocivo, irresponsable. Por el momento no tengo ese temor dado la prudencia del presidente ejecutivo de Codelco y la responsabilidad que aún observo en las esferas más altas del gobierno.
—¿Específicamente en qué esfera? Porque al parecer hay distintas visiones?
El ministro de Hacienda.

 

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FOM LEGAL BLOG WATCH


BlawgWorld 2007: I Still Don't Get It

When TechnoLawyer Publisher Neil J. Squillante and Editor Sara Skiff released the first edition of their BlawgWorld  e-book in November 2005, I wrote at my LawSites blog that it was a worthwhile experiment, but one that should be shelved. I explained:

"[H]aving now seen the final product, it is clear that the concept simply did not work as a book -- blog postings frozen in rigid pdf pages seemed drained of whatever vitality they once might have had."

I also expressed discomfort at the way it was promoted, seemingly making the bloggers who contributed essays pawns in expanding TechnoLawyer's membership. Thus, with the release today of the second edition of this e-book, BlawgWorld 2007, I was not surprised to receive an e-mail from Squillante pointing out changes in this new edition. "I agree with you that the first edition had flaws," he wrote, "but rather than shelve it, we addressed the flaws."

Well, in my opinion, they did and they didn't. Let's start with the good. Squillante and Skiff deserve high praise for the design and format of BlawgWorld 2007. The book employs a navigation system that takes full advantage of the features of PDF. The concept is "three clicks from anywhere to anywhere." That holds true, enabling the reader to find and get to articles quickly and intuitively. In addition to intuitive navigation, the book's pages are nicely designed. Blog essays include information about the blog and the blogger and even a thumbnail of its main page. Essays are published with all links intact so that the reader can jump from book to web and back.

To some extent, this design addresses my concern about rigid PDF pages draining blog posts of their vitality. But the premise of this book (as Squillante explains in the video here)  is that is serves as the best way for lawyers to discover legal blogs and choose the ones they might regularly read. I still don't see how it does that. Myself, I am able to evaluate a blog only by reading several postings over a period of time. To take one self-selected post and add it to a compendium of posts from other bloggers seems to serve no practical purpose other than to stroke the egos of the bloggers who are included.

Then there is still that discomfort aspect. This time, BlawgWorld is being promoted as two books in one. The second book -- which is not a separate book at all -- is the TechnoLawyer Problem/Solution Guide. This is described as "the product guide reinvented" and a "revolutionary new sponsored resource." The key word here is sponsored. Although positioned as a collection of questions and answers about common technology and management problems, it is really a collection of advertisements. The answers are not objective, they are provided by vendors to promote their own products and services. Here, for example, is a question: "Does a case management solution exist specifically for personal injury practices?" The answer, "Look no further than Needles." Let's call this what it is -- a huge advertising directory.

Squillante says that this e-book costs much more than the first one to produce, so he had to sell advertising. Rather than "turn the eBook into a magazine with big garish ads interspersed with the blawg essays," he chose this approach, which he says was inspired by the yellow pages. He explains: "Participating legal vendors were required to ask a question (Problem) free of superlatives that a law firm might actually ask, and then answer that question (Solution) using 250-300 words."

With 45,000 downloads, the popularity of the first BlawgWorld exceeded all expectations. Squillante expects to see the number of downloads for this second BlawgWorld reach at least 50,000. So even though I don't get it, plenty of people apparently do. Clearly, this second edition is an improvement over the first in many respects. If some readers find it useful in learning about and selecting blogs, then BlawgWorld has achieved its purpose.

Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on July 30, 2007 at 12:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Is SJC Nominee in Trouble?

That is the question media writer Dan Kennedy asks at his blog Media Nation about Margot Botsford, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's nominee for a seat on the state's highest court, the Supreme Judicial Court. I, for one, don't think so. Botsford, currently a judge on the state's Superior Court, is highly regarded among lawyers in Massachusetts and has an impressive record of achievements to support her.

The question arises because, one day after Gov. Patrick nominated Botsford, the Boston Herald reported that her husband, lawyer S. Stephen Rosenfeld, last year donated three times the legal limit to Patrick's campaign fund. Rosenfeld is also well known within the state's legal community and was chief of staff and legal counsel to former Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis. This news led blogger Kennedy to comment:

"Botsford is well-qualified and progressive, but this has the aroma of a quid pro quo. You could argue that she's not responsible for her husband's political donations, but come on. As a judge, she can't make political donations anyway. (Or at least she shouldn't.) And why didn't someone at the Patrick campaign flag the excess donations and return them?"

From the state's legal community, support for Botsford's nomination is strong. Massachusetts Bar Association President Mark D. Mason issued a statement in which he said:

"Botsford's keen intellect and extraordinary abilities as a jurist enhance the outstanding reputation of our state's highest court. She is highly regarded and respected amongst jurists and attorneys throughout the commonwealth."

The president of the Boston Bar Association, Jack Cinquegrana, had like praise:

"[Botsford] is a true scholar of the law and a noble public servant who is universally admired for her brilliance, her extraordinary work ethic, and her commitment to justice."

My prediction is that her nomination will -- and should -- sail through.

Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on July 30, 2007 at 01:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Praise for ABA Journal Web Site Relaunch

The headline that best describes the ABA Journal's unveiling last week of its new Web site may be this one from Mark Obbie: A Sleeping Giant Stirs. I first noted the head-to-toe redesign of the site a week ago on my LawSites blog, but now that I am back from the Maine woods, I have had a chance to look more closely at the site and at other bloggers' comments. Opinions appear to be unanimously enthusiastic. Overnight, the ABA Journal's Web site went from Edsel to Ferrari.

The overhaul was spearheaded by two former colleagues of mine at ALM, Ed Adams, the magazine's new editor and publisher, and Molly McDonough, the magazine's assistant managing editor/online. My LawSites post describes the site's major features, which include regularly updated legal news stories drawn from multiple sources online, a directory of more than 1,000 law-related blogs, articles from the magazine, RSS feeds and more. But here I wanted to collect some of what others are saying about the new site. Here is a sampling of what I found:

  • Blawg's Blog: "[A]t first glimpse, it looks to me like the ABA has done a very nice job in putting together its new site. It has created another law portal, however, which makes this move pretty interesting. My initial reaction is that the ABA has moved into direct competition with Law.com and FindLaw (and maybe a Lexis web property like Lawyers.com). It also obviously offers some of the same features and functionality as Blawg.com and Justia, to name a couple more."
  • Dennis Kennedy: "I like the direction that the ABA Journal is going with the website and the print publication. In fact, I like it so much that I've recently agreed to take over the legal technology column for the publication starting this fall."
  • Ernie the Attorney: "Very impressive new look! Also note that the Journal is now listing legal blogs (which they term 'blawgs'), including this one."
  • InhouseBlog: "This is sure to be a powerful new tool for in-house counsel - check it out and add it to your blog reader."
  • LawBeat: "Law.com, watch your back. The ABA Journal today launched a new Web site that kicks Law.com's butt."
  • Mediator blah... blah...: "Best of all is The Blawg Directory which indexes more than 1,000 law blogs. The directory tells you about the author, what they cover, and includes excerpts from the 10 latest posts."
  • MyShingle: "[T]he ABA has finally provided a really useful product with the newly launched, online ABA Journal. The site makes ABA Journal articles and legal news available, and also contains one of the best topical blawg directories that I've ever seen."
  • New York Personal Injury Law Blog: "The American Bar Association has moved into the news and blog arena in a big way, as evidenced by their newly redone website. A quick view shows terrific free news feeds as well as a great new compendium of blawgs. They have obviously done their homework."

If the best headline about the new site was Mark Obbie's, quoted above, the most succinct evaluation of the overhaul may be this from Denise Howell at Bag and Baggage: "It's not the old site, which was, let's face it, as painful as a nitrous-free molar extraction."

Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on July 30, 2007 at 12:45 PM | Perma

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'China: To blog to dream'

'China: To blog to dream'
by John Kennedy

Two American bloggers based in southern China's Guangzhou city are gearing up for a year's worth of blogging trips which will take them through all twenty-two provinces in mainland China and see them raising funds for charities, offering scholarships for Chinese students to go study in the West as well as raising funds to cover medical costs for people struggling with cancer back in the heavily-industrialized Pearl River Delta, where cancer rates run high.

Lonnie B. Hodge, the elder of the two, US army veteran, past recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts and resident of Asia for nearly two decades, has played a very active role in China's English-language blogging community since he started OneManBandwidth in 2004, supporting not just top blogger and photo contests, but also charity initiatives being played out across the country, all on top of maintaining a business column and drawing on life experiences (and a PhD) in decoding life as a teacher and business consultant in today's China on everything from cancer to censorship to corruption on campuses.

Cancer has been a central topic on OneManBandwidth for the past year as Hodge has followed closely the lives of what he is calling The League of Extraordinary Chinese Women, linked by their shared suffering of breast cancer; where once there five, only one is still living today. As those around him continue to pass away, Hodge himself does not have long left to go.

And thus the inspiration for what Hodge and his Macau University of Science and Technology teaching colleague David DeGeest are calling The Dreamblogue: Traveling China for Charity and Understanding.

The first trip will take the pair to Tibet on August 15 and more information will be released shortly. One recent post looks at the Asia Library Project initiative mentioned in the short video, taken in Guangzhou this past week, below:



Hodge and DeGeest's first step toward making people's dreams come true has been  to invite readers to share them on The Dreamblogue:

Dreamblogue readers and corporate sponsors are already helping fulfill some of the dreams posted here. For how you can help us visit our help page and continue to follow our adventures in China. All ad revenue will from this site benefits Chinese and American individuals with dreams deferred by health, or social circumstances.

And several have already come in:

tdgardens's dream:
That every child have a book to hug, hold, and carry them to a dream all their own.

hailvict's dream:
To become someone who makes a difference every day of their life.

mmhalim's dream:
travell to china i cannot imagine what is the great system that can organize all this people and in the same time they are be one of the great country in the world

Taitai's Dream:
My main dream right now is that the lumps found in my mother-in-law's lung are benign. That would be lovely, thank you.

kevin's dream:
I hope the project of "Blog of dreams" will be successful.

Roxi Copland's Dream:
touring worldwide as a vocalist and pianist

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Friday, July 27, 2007

What's Hot

What's Hot
(Podcast with Transcript)

Jeremy Siegel: Snapshots of the U.S. and Other Markets

The crisis involving sub-prime housing loans continues to batter U.S. markets. Treasury bills have been rising for months because of fears that losses on sub-prime real estate loans could slow the growth of the economy. On the other hand, the stock market has been soaring: The Dow Jones Industrial Average shot past 14,000 and continues to hover at that level. What do these trends mean for investors? Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel discussed these issues and more -- including economic growth in China and the impact of the strong Indian rupee -- with Knowledge@Wharton.

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/1782.cfm

Marketing
Robbing the Cradle? If Marketers Get Their Way, That Bundle of Joy Can Cost a Bundle

Just a decade ago, a company called Baby Einstein helped launch a new line of educational videos and toys that many parents believed would put their toddlers in the fast lane to success. The company was soon joined by others that promoted educational and entertainment products for babies and the under-three-year-old set, including The Baby Prodigy Company and Brainy Baby. But recently some child advocacy groups -- and the author of a new book -- are warning parents to rethink the products and the messages behind these campaigns.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/1778.cfm

Law and Public Policy
'Quality Fade': China's Great Business Challenge

Recent media reports detailing a series of quality problems with Chinese-made exports -- pet food tainted with prohibited chemicals, toys covered with lead paint and tires that fall apart at high speed -- have alarmed the American public and resulted in a number of international product recalls. In this opinion piece, Paul Midler, founder and president of China Advantage, a services firm that provides outsourcing and supply chain management to U.S. and European companies, discusses what he calls "quality fade" and a number of related challenges that face Chinese manufacturing.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/1776.cfm

Strategic Management
Feel Free to Move About the Airport: Turbulence Continues to Roil the Airline Industry

Wharton professor Serguei Netessine, who recently had to spend the night in an airport hotel after being kicked off an overbooked evening flight, is one of thousands of airline passengers this summer who have been stranded on runways or sleeping in airports. While airline service is no longer the white-glove experience it once was, it has recently gone beyond bad food and snappish flight attendants. "Previously, airlines worried about dissatisfied customers. Now I don't think they worry about it because the customer service at all airlines is so horrible," says Netessine. Knowledge@Wharton looks at the current state of the airline industry.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/1780.cfm

Leadership and Change
Some Free Advice for Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is about to find out that being a CEO is a lot different than being the ceremonious Chief Yahoo, as he was called until last month. Yang, who became Yahoo's new CEO on June 18, faces a daunting to-do list that includes reinvigorating the company, closing a performance gap with Google, thwarting challenges from social media sites such as Facebook, delivering financial results that make Wall Street cheer and charting a course for the future. His first deadline comes in about 100 days. Knowledge@Wharton asked faculty members for advice on how Yang should handle this management challenge.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/1777.cfm

Law and Public Policy
The Impact of Good Governance on International Investing: The 'Home Bias' Effect and Other Issues

Following accounting and governance scandals at Enron and other U.S. companies, policymakers in the United States and elsewhere responded by establishing new corporate governance rules, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Now, after complaints from the business community that regulations are hurting profits, some countries are taking a second look at post-Enron reforms. But according to research presented during a recent conference on international corporate governance -- sponsored by the Weiss Center for International Financial Research at Wharton -- countries should think twice about loosening governance regulations.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/1781.cfm

Leadership and Change
IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond on What's Next for the Big Screen

For big-screen movie company IMAX, the past several weeks must have seemed like the best of times and the worst of times. The recent opening of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was the largest and most successful in IMAX history. Yet despite the record box office, the company's stock price remained moribund as it delayed its financial filings to restate its revenue recognition for the years 2002-2005 and responded to an informal inquiry from the SEC. This was not the first challenge faced by Richard Gelfond and Bradley Wechsler, who share the titles of chairman and CEO. Knowledge@Wharton recently spoke with Gelfond at IMAX's corporate headquarters in New York about the company's plans for the future.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/1779.cfm

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Articles from Around the Network

Universia Knowledge@Wharton
Why Brazil Has Become One of the Top Four Investment Destinations in the World

Along with China, India and Russia, Brazil is overflowing with opportunities for foreign investors. It is also leading the way in Latin America's economic development. In 2006, it was the third largest economy in the western hemisphere and the 11th largest in the world. The legislative reforms of the Lula Da Silva government are boosting cooperation between the public and private sectors, trade imbalances are improving, and the economy has shown strong signs of stabilizing. "It is a country where you have to be," notes one expert. Nevertheless, a number of experts say, Brazil must continue with the reforms now underway in order to maintain its upward momentum.
http://www.wharton.universia.net/index.cfm?fa=viewfeature&id=1384&language=english

China Knowledge@Wharton
Is China's Luxury Goods Market a 'Pot of Gold' for Marketers?

The luxury lifestyle is hot, as evidenced by the 2007 Millionaire Fair held in Shanghai in June. The show, twice as big as the one in 2006, displayed 150 top global brands to 14,000 mainly middle-class consumers. Already the third-largest global market for luxury goods, China is poised to eventually take over the number one spot. What is behind this growth in luxury goods, and in what ways is the China market unique? China Knowledge@Wharton explores these issues.
http://knowledgeatwharton.com.cn/index.cfm?fa=viewfeature&articleid=1672&languageid=1

India Knowledge@Wharton
(Podcast)
Shiv V. Khemka: 'The Days When International Oil Companies Controlled the Global Energy Business Seem to be Drifting By'

During the recent 2007 Wharton Economic Summit, Knowledge@Wharton recorded a series of podcasts with speakers and panelists at the event, whose theme was "Next Moves in a Global Economy." Among those interviewed was Shiv V. Khemka, vice chairman of the SUN Group, a significant investor in emerging economies such as Russia, India and the Middle East. Khemka spoke about opportunities in the natural resources businesses, on which the group has been focusing for the past two years. "We believe that as the demand for natural resources continues to grow over the next 15 to 20 years, not only in the Western world but also in the emerging markets, resource holders and those who have access to these fast-growing markets will benefit tremendously," Khemka says. "The days when the international oil companies controlled the global energy business seem to be drifting by."
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/india/article.cfm?articleid=4208
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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Peru: Polls, Strikes, and Independence Day

Peru: Polls, Strikes, and Independence Day
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Legal Blog Watch

Legal Blog Watch

Building Relationships to Build Business -- and Using Facebook to Do It

Lawyer-client intimacy sounds like something forbidden or inappropriate. But the kind of lawyer-client intimacy that Arnie Herz discusses in this post at Legal Sanity is anything but: Herz suggests that lawyers should try to forge a personal bond with clients as a way to build a healthy, lasting and trusted relationship. He writes:

As I've noted before, and as Keith Ferrazzi points out in his bestselling book, Never Eat Alone, many people shy away from the idea that intimacy is key to successful business relationships. By intimacy I'm referring to a willingness to get to know the human being behind the issue or need that comes across our desk (or the airplane call button). It's basically the same kind of intimacy that fuels healthy connections to family and friends. Many lawyers find it hard to drop the mantle of authority and really get to know their clients as human beings who have fears, hopes and challenges. But, this kind of sincere human-to-human exchange is what compels prospects to become clients and compels clients to stay with us and refer us more business.

Interestingly, Herz's post on lawyer-client intimacy coincides with blog posts by Kevin O'Keefe and Ernie the Attorney about Facebook. Traditionally viewed as a social community, more professionals are turning to Facebook to connect with each other, O'Keefe writeshere:

Facebook should not be dismissed as some web site or social community where our kids hang out. Not only am I seeing a growing number of innovative lawyers and business people networking via Facebook, but Facebook is also adding an executive team that ain't joining to keep things as is.
The Wall Street Journal reports (sub req'ed) this morning the latest to join Facebook is CFO Gideon Yu, formerly with Google's YouTube.  Mr. Yu's appointment follows the hiring this month of Chamath Palihapitiya, an investor for the Mayfield Fund LP venture-capital firm, as vice president of product marketing and operations. Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, co-founders of open-source Web browser Mozilla Firefox, are joining Facebook as part of its acquisition of their Parakey startup.

Ernie Svenson compares the differences in the more whimsical Facebook and the serious networking tool Linked In in this in this post:

I think that the differences between Facebook and LinkedIn reflect a similar sensibility in the world of online marketing or networking.  It's important to have a professional appearance, and LinkedIn is wonderful in that regard. But, it's also important to show a more human side.  People like to deal with people they feel comfortable with.  Professional networks emphasize one's professional skills.  Social networks like Facebook emphasize the personal touches.  I've known Marty Schwimmer for many years.  I've read his blog for 5 years, and I trade emails with him regularly.  I know a lot about Marty.  But I didn't know, until he became a "Facebook friend" that he was taking bass guitar lessons.  Or at least that's what his 'status page' said last Saturday.  Maybe he was kidding but that's okay too.

Looking for ways to build connections with other lawyers and potential clients is a win-win for all. As Ernie points out, "people like to deal with people they feel comfortable with" -- which means that building connections can help make money. And more importantly, even if you don't get that new client or account, if you've built a relationship with a prospect, at least you can feel that you've come away with a new friend even if you didn't win the business. And that kind of consolation prize helps make marketing and even rejection more palatable.

Posted by Carolyn Elefant on July 25, 2007 at 04:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Dispatches from the new world of work

Dispatches from the new world of work

A Company Gets It

We know that the women's market is booming and that many haven't taken full advantage of this market. Not so Harley-Davidson. They've noticed that there is a huge market of women who are buying motorcycles—about 100,00 a year. As stated in the New York Times today, "'Fifty percent of the population is female and there is pent-up demand,' said James L. Ziemer, Harley-Davidson's chief executive. 'We need to remove barriers.'"

Companies that remove the barriers and recognize the power of women buyers can cash in on a great market, but I think Tom's been saying that for awhile now.

How does your company take advantage of today's key markets, boomers/geezers and women??

Val Willis posted this today.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://www.tompeters.com/

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Poverty as a Defense to Crime

At Crime & Federalism, Mike Cernovich asks whether poverty should be a mitigating factor in criminal sentencing. He cites new research suggesting a link between lead poisoning and criminal behavior and another study showing a link between diet and criminality -- specifically, that people who eat diets low in essential fatty acids are more likely to commit crimes.

Given that children do not choose to live in lead-paint-tainted homes or to eat diets low in essential nutrients, what does this say if those children grow up to commit crimes? If someone slips a drug into your drink and you do something wrong, Cernovich notes, your involuntary intoxication is a mitigating factor at sentencing. Should not the same be true for children involuntarily intoxicated by lead or poor nutrition? As Cernovich puts it:

"Given that poor children are the ones who were most-frequently exposed to lead paint and the ones most likely denied essential nutrients, does it make sense to have a general poverty-as-mitigating-sentencing factor?"

And shouldn't schools be required to serve nutritious food in order to vaccinate children from certain crimes?

Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on July 24, 2007 at 01:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

What Is a Blog?

In posts here and here, I've attempted to identify the first legal blogger. In response, I have received e-mails from several bloggers suggesting either themselves or others as possibly the first. These e-mails highlight the primary problem with identifying the first legal blogger -- first you must define "blog." Two of the e-mails I received warrant mention, because they are both from people who have been active in publishing online for the legal community since the earliest days of the Web and who are both highly regarded for their work.

The first came from Bruce W. Marcus, a veteran legal marketing consultant who in 1994 went online with his newsletter, The Marcus Letter on Professional Services Marketing. He wrote, in part:

"The earliest blog serving the legal profession? The Marcus Letter on Professional Services Marketing went online in 1994, following several years when it was published in hard copy. It sprung from my first book on marketing professional services, in 1982. It offered some of the earliest advice in marketing and managing law firms -- as it does today-- and in analyzing the ramifications of the legal profession. Many articles have been reprinted elsewhere, frequently."

The other e-mail that warrants a mention was from Sabrina Pacifici, who writes the blog beSpacific and who, in 1996, founded the Web journal LLRX.com. She points to an LLRX.com feature called Newstand, which made its debut in January 1997 and continued to run monthly. Here is how LLRX.com described this feature:

"In this column, we list selected articles from computer-oriented publications, such as Database, Online, PC World, PC Computing, Internet World, PC Magazine & Searcher as well as business magazines such as Forbes, Fortune & BusinessWeek. If you come across an article of interest that is not on our list, please choose 'Add Comments' at the bottom of this page, and tell us about it. All citations will be archived in the Library one month after posting."

Thus, well before the word "blog" was over coined, both Marcus and Pacifici had created Web pages that featured regularly updated content of interest to the legal profession. Which begs the question, what is a blog? I put that to Pacifici, and here was her response:

"Regularly posting current, topical material to the community, on law and technology related issues -- free, unsponsored, unbiased, independent. In any case, it predated 'blogs' per say, and fits the definition of regularly updated content. And since I am the only one, I think, who has been continually publishing on these topics to this community for 10+ yrs, it may merit a mention."

I don't know if anyone has heaped as much praise on LLRX.com over the years as I have. I have given it top rating in my book, The Essential Guide to the Best and Worst Legal Sites on the Web, and it was regularly selected as one of the "Best of the Web for Lawyers" in my former newsletter legal.online, as this March 1999 column of mine shows. But by that definition, I predated LLRX, since I have been posting my monthly column online since March 1995. I do not mean to take away from either Marcus or Pacifici their well-deserved status as trailblazers and innovators. I have the highest regard for the work of both, and they each deserve prominent places in the legal-Web history books. In my opinion, however, they were both publishing newsletters or e-zines online, not blogs, when they launched their respective features in 1994 and 1997. What's the difference? I'm not sure. Maybe it's frequency, maybe its intent. But for now I'm sticking with my original choice for first legal blog.

Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on July 24, 2007 at 01:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Welcome to Japan"? Kurdish refugee family leaves for Canada'

Welcome to Japan"? Kurdish refugee family leaves for Canada'
by Hanako Tokita

Few people outside of Japan are aware of the dismal record of this country's treatment of refugees, particularly its treatment of Kurdish refugees. Few Japanese are even aware of policy in this area, given how little it is covered in the mainstream news. And yet Japan stands as most probably the only advanced country in the world not to have accepted a single Kurdish refugee out of hundreds of desperate applicants, despite the persecution Kurds routinely receive in countries such as Turkey, Iran, and Iraq.

Erdal Dogan and his family have learned first-hand things about Japanese policy that most Japanese people themselves do not themselves even know. Erdal arrived in Japan for the first time in 1999, fleeing ethnic and religious persecution in Turkey. He was joined by his wife Meryem and his brother Deniz in 2000, and his daughter Merve arrived two years later. His son Mehmet was born in Japan.

Erdal's family's application for refugee status was twice refused, and Erdal eventually ended up in detention, his family left to fend for themselves. Desperate and out of options, Erdal went on a 60-day hunger strike in 2003, to little avail.

After many years of hardship, sit-ins, and protests -- and after having been repeatedly back-stabbed by a government they originally hoped would help them -- the Dogan family finally received some good news this month: their application for refugee status in Canada was accepted.


The Dogan Family at Narita airport - photo by Shu Kaori/周香織

Blogger Shu Kaori is a photographer and longtime supporter of the Dogan family. She has published a book about the family, with a focus on the daughter Merve Dogan, entitled My neighboring friend, Little Merve - Two Kurdish refugee families I met. In her blog post on July 10th, she described her experience seeing the Dogan family off at Narita airport:


今日はエルダルさん一家がカナダに旅立つ日です。


Today is the day that Erdal's family will set off for Canada.



お仕事は半休を頂いて、午後は成田空港までエルダルさんたちのお見送りに行ってきました。
「YOKOSO!JAPAN (ようこそ!日本)」のロゴがあちこちに貼ってある空港の中を、出発ロビーに向かいました。
30人ほどの支援者がエルダルさんたちを囲み、ロビーで別れを惜しんでいました。TBSさんと日本テレビさんも取材に来て下さいました。


I had a half-day off from work, and in the afternoon I went to Narita airport to see --- and his family off.
I headed to the lobby of the airport, where "YOKOSO! JAPAN" [Welcome to Japan!] logos were posted all over the place.
Over 30 supporters surrounded Erdal in the lobby, saying their sad goodbyes. Crews from TBS and Nippon Television had also come to cover the event.



お別れの時間が近づくと、エルダルさんは見送りにきた人、一人一人にお礼を言い、握手をしていきました。私はちょっと離れてその様子を見ていましたが、今まであったいろいろなことを思い出してきて、隅でだらだら涙を流していると、エルダルさんがやってきて、「泣いてはだめですよ」と声を掛けてくれました。「別に私、泣いてないです」と答えてエルダルさんを見ると、エルダルさんも目が赤くなっていたので「あなたも泣いてるじゃないですか」と言うと「いや、泣いてないですよ」と言ったので、二人でちょっと笑いました。クルドの家族は、私が辛いシーンに立ち会ってめそめそしていると、いつでも「泣いちゃだめですよ」と言って、私を叱咤激励してくれます。


As the departure time approached, the people who had come to see Erdal off thanked him and shook his hand. I was watching all this from a bit further away, remembering the various things that had happened up until that point, and I started crying in the corner [of the room]. Erdal came over and said to me: "Please don't cry." He said to me: "I'm not crying," but I looked at him and I could see that his eyes had become red. I said to him: "You are crying too, aren't you?" but he replied: "No, I'm not crying," and so we both laughed a bit. Whenever I would witness a painful scene and start to cry, the family would always tell me: "Don't cry!" and send me words of encouragement.




「周さん、これからも難民のために頑張ってください」エルダルさんはそう言って、握手をしてくれました。


Erdal said to me: "Shu-san, please don't give up [on your work with] the refugees," and shook my hand.



搭乗口向かう最後の時、エルダルさんは「皆さん、今まで本当にありがとうございました。皆さんのお陰で、ドーガン一家はカナダで幸せになります。本当にありがとうございました!」と言って、手を振りながらゲートに入っていきました。


Just at the last moment, as he was going to board the plane, Erdal said: "Everybody, thank you so much. Thanks to all of you, the Dogan family will find happiness in Canada. Thank you very very much!" He waved goodbye as he boarded the gate [to the plane].



この空港に貼ってある「ようこそ!日本」とは、一体、誰に向けられた言葉なのか。
お金持ちの観光客か、ビジネスマンか、外国人タレントか。少なくとも、難民には向けられていないと思います。
表面上は豊かで平和な美しい日本。
でもそれはうわべだけのことで、少し中をめくってみれば、難民の人の命懸けの、そしてほんのささやかな願いさえ叶えてくれない、冷たい国だということを知りました。


This banner "Yokoso! Japan" [Welcome to Japan] that you see at the airport, who are these words for?
Rich tourists or business people or foreign talent? In any case I don't think it's for refugees.
A country that seems prosperous and peaceful on the face of it - Japan.
However, this is just a facade. When I dug a little deeper, I saw that refugees were not granted even their simple wishes, wishes upon which their life depends, and I realized that this is a cruel country.



それを気付かせてくれたのは、難民の人たちでした。
ある夏に国連前で座り込みをしたクルド人の家族がいて、それを支援した日本の人たちがいて、そしてその結果、その難民の人たちの運命を少しだけでも良いほうにずらすことができたのは、紛れもない事実です。
私にできることは微々たるものですし、今の難民政策を変えるには、まだ時間がかかると思います。
ですが、その可能性がある限り、私は難民の支援を続けたいと思います。


It was the [plight of the] refugees that made me realize this.
It is an unmistakable fact that there were Kurdish families who sat in front of the UN one summer, and there were Japanese people who supported them, and as a result their fate was improved a bit.
I can only do very little, and I think it will take a long time to change the refugee policy.
However, as long as there is the possibility, I want to continue supporting the refugees.



これからもどうぞよろしくお願い致します。


From here on, I will do what I can.



Erdal's daughter Merve - photo by Shu Kaori/周香織

Blogger haredasu writes about Erdal and his family:


 どうしてですか?

 トルコで難民として迫害を受け、救いを求めて、
日本に来てまで、何故こんな仕打ちを受けなければ
いけないのでしょうか?
 人道的な問題ではないのでしょうか?


Why?

They were persecuted as refugees in Turkey, sought help, and came to Japan. Why should they still be treated this way?
Isn't this a humanitarian issue?



 結局、日本では認定されず、カナダが難民として認定。
 日本にはいられず、知る人が誰もいない、言葉も話せないかも
知れない、カナダに渡って行きました。

 日本は、好きなのに、、でも、と、言いながら、

 この人たちは、今後、日本について、どう思うようになるので
しょうか?


After all, Japan did not recognize them as refugees but Canada recognized them as refugees.
They could not remain in Japan, and they left for Canada, where they don't know anyone and they may not know the language.
They left, saying "we liked Japan...but...".
What will they think about Japan in the future?



 国際化とか、国際貢献とか、
日本政府の人たちは、どう考えているのでしょうか?

 すごく考えさせられました。

 難民問題については、恥ずかしいことですが、
よく知りませんでした。


About [Japan's] internationalization or international contribution,
what do the Japanese government officials think about these things?
This made me think.
It is a shame that I don't know much about these refugee issues.




 このニュースを見ていて思ったことは、
なんと、日本という国は、冷たい国、
世界に対して、恥ずかしい国だったのかと、

 どうしてこんなことができるのかと思う。

 恥ずかしい限りです。



What I was thinking as I watched the news is how cold and shameful this country Japan is, in the eyes of the world, that it could do something like this.
I am just so ashamed.



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Friday, July 20, 2007

turbinas eolicas

Meet the companies tackling nine of humanity's biggest problems -- and making millions saving us from ourselves.
Problem #1: Global Warming
Problem #1: Global Warming
The background: Carbon dioxide makes up nearly 80 percent of all greenhouse gases. More than a quarter of that CO2 comes from electrical power plants.

The solution: Wind power, thanks to recent breakthroughs in turbine and transmission technology; it's also 70 percent cheaper than solar power. In May, Dublin-based Airtricity, the world's fastest-growing wind developer, announced plans for a European supergrid - a network of 2,000 offshore wind turbines in the North Atlantic. The grid would initially supply 10,000 megawatts to 8 million homes.

The payoff: Founded just seven years ago, Airtricity is on track to bring in $657 million in revenue by 2010. The company operates 16 wind farms in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

The opportunity: Airtricity is already lobbying for government approvals. But there's opportunity for other wind producers to start banding together, since scale is what's needed most to lift wind out of the "alternative" market.
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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Legal Blog Watch

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Law Firm's 'Chow for Charity' Program: Scraps for the Poor or Meaningful Charity?

Of course, we all know that there's no such thing as a free lunch -- especially if you're a summer associate at Simpson Thacher, with a $60 expense account for lunch and an option to limit yourself to a $15 lunch and give the remaining $45 to legal aid. In that situation, your free lunch isn't free; instead, it's a veritable microcosm for everything that's wrong with charity in America, as Daniel Gross writes in this provocative article, Fifteen Dollars' Worth of Smug: What a New York law firm's charity-lunch program reveals about America (Slate, 7/17/07).

Gross profiles the Simpson Thacher Chow for Charity program, where summer associates can elect not to enjoy a $60 per person lunch with a firm lawyer. Instead, if they choose to eat with the lawyer at a more down-scale joint and spend $15 or less each, the firm will donate the difference ($45 per person) to a nonprofit legal group like Legal Aid. Gross points out that the program reflects a number of important trends, including (1) A Touch of Conscience (where most companies pay lip service to concerns like global warming or poverty); (2) The New Guilded Age (where fat and happy law firms think nothing of the absurdity of giving students a $60 allowance for lunch); (3) Defining Public Service Down (a situation where most people claim interest in community service but don't want the lower incomes that go with it, so they find a win-win situation like doing pro bono at a large firm); and (4)  It's Good To Be the King (describing how partners set priorities and realize that the $15 lunch is quicker and gets associates back to billing more quickly and spares partners from socializing). 

PG at Blog de novo comments that Gross' economics are skewed -- because parnters aren't really king of the hill. The post comments that in comparison with those in the investment industry, partners at firms are really like day laborers rather than capitalist owners. PG has it part right -- law firm partners aren't owners of capital, but they think they are, which perhaps makes their situation even more unfortunate. But it doesn't refute Gross' main point, which is that the Chow for Charity lunch is a partner-driven concept, not something arrived at by consensus with associates or the bar associations.

Nuts and Boalts says that Gross completely misses the point in his piece and takes us through a play-by-play response. N&B believes that any money that the program saves on lunches is a good thing, because the extra goes to charity. Moreover, because associates don't routinely spend $60 per lunch but the firm always pays the $45 difference, N&B points out that the program does cost the firm money. And N&B also says that pro bono at firms isn't ornamental -- but that they peform a substantial amount (for instance, Simpson says it does 50,000 hours of community service each year). 

As for me, I'm on the fence about Gross' post. I do agree with the trends that Gross tracks, and he's certainly right to question law firms' motives and the hypocrisy and snobbery of many of these giving systems. At the same time,  I can't decide if these drawbacks are outweighed by the concommitant results. After all, if students are going to be working at large firms for the summer anyway, why not give them a chance to help generate money for a legal aid group? A $45/day contribution for 10 weeks comes to $2,250 per associate; and if the firm has 50 summer associates, that's $112,000 for a legal aid group (which goes a lot further than using a summer associate to do the work pro bono; $112,000 could hire one, maybe two full-time legal aid staff attorneys). 

Do charity and pro bono have to hurt? Is it only valuable if it entails sacrifice? Who contributes more to pro bono -- the summer associate at Simpson who gives up a lunch or the law student who works for $2,250 for the entire summer at a legal aid group? What's your view?

Posted by Carolyn Elefant on July 19, 2007 at 02:46 PM | Permalink |

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