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Cierta vez se corrio la voz de que el diablo se retiraba de los negocios y que vendia sus herramientas al mejor postor. En la noche de la venta estaban todas las herramientas en forma de que llamaran la atencion. Eran un lote siniestro: odio, celos, envidia, malicia, sensualidad, engaños, ademas de los otros implementos del mal.
Aparte, separado de las demas herramientas, habia un instrumento de forma inofensiva, muy gastado, cuyo precio era mas alto que el de todos los otros. Alguien pregunto al diablo como se llamaba el instrumento.
- "Desaliento", fue la respuesta.
- Por que su precio es tan alto? le preguntaron
- "Porque - replico el diablo - ese instrumento me es mas util que cualquier otro. Con el, puedo entrar en la conciencia de un ser humano, cuando los demas fallan. Una vez dentro, por medio del desaliento, y como muy pocas personas saben que me pertenece, lo puedo usar continuamente para lograr mis propositos".
Pero el precio de la herramienta "desaliento" era tan alto que aun sigue siendo propiedad del diablo.
Acciones que usted debe aplicar con valentia
Fortalezcase ante ese estados de animo que se llama "desaliento".
Evite el desaliento en el nuestro trabajo, con su familia, con la necesidad de cambio, con los grupos, con los compañeros.
Mantengase alerta contra el desaliento, principalmente al principio, cuando trabaja para encontrarse a si mismo.
Evite entregarse si hay un tropezon o una recaida.
Comience desde un punto mas avanzado y de inmediato despues de cada recaida
Pida ayuda si lo necesita. .
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Do Law Students Want a Revolution ... or a Union? Both the WSJ Law Blog andWired GC offer coverage here and here on a newly formed law student group, Law Students Building a Better Legal Profession, that aims to change the modern law firm business model to make it more sustainable and profitable. To this end, the students have outlined goals that include: (1) Taking concrete steps towards a transactional billing system; (2) Reducing maximum billable-hour expectations for partnership; (3) Implementing balanced hours policies that work; and (4) Making work expectations clear. Wired GC and WSJ Blog both pose this questions: Will law schools listen to students? That's hard to say. Law firms have listened in the past: The big law firm pro bono programs help firms with publicity, but they're also powerful recruitment tools. When I graduated from law school 19 years ago, formalized pro bono programs were just coming into existence. Now, they're de rigeur at most top firms. Maybe the programs don't handle many cases, or maybe new associates lack the time to participate, but nonetheless law firm pro bono is one example of law firm responsiveness to student demands. At the same time, pro bono doesn't tackle the very heart of the large firm business model: the billable hour, the up or out partnership track (though these days many associates leave voluntarily before they're asked to leave) and the rites of passage that associates pass through en route to partnership. Thus, implementing pro bono is very different from adopting the reforms that the Law Students Building a Better Legal Profession propose. My view on law firm reform has always been a pragmatic one. Law firms are profit-making businesses that will change when it's economically advantageous for them to do so. As mentioned, law firms developed pro bono service to attract angst-filled law students who wanted to work for a big firm but still do some good. As I've written here many times before, law firms are promoting diversity now that clients demand it. And law firms will change their internal economic structure when it's economically advantageous for them to do so. I don't know that we've even come close to that point. For all the buzz in the blogosphere about discontent and disatisfaction, there are still enough law students graduating law school who want to work at large firms for a couple of years and are willing to defer gratification and work long hours. And there are enough law schools promoting law firms as the most prestigious career choice or the only option for new graduates. So I'm not sure where the law students will find the economic leverage to implement the reforms that they propose. Unless, of course, law students and associates unionize. Is that where our profession is headed? Posted by Carolyn Elefant on April 4, 2007 at 01:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |
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More Ways to Happiness in the Workplace Most law firms don't have a chief happiness officer, but as Arnie Herz points out in this recent post, you can still benefit from a CHO's advice at the Chief Happiness Officer blog. Herz points us to CHO Alexander Kjerulf's recent post on why, more than any other incentive, happiness is the "ultimate productivity booster." Here are the reasons:
Herz also points out that there's scientific backing for these conclusions. Referencing blogger Kathy Sierra, he writes:
So, in the words of the Partridge Family, C'mon, get happy! Posted by Carolyn Elefant on April 2, 2007 at 02:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Too Bad This Bill Wasn't an April Fools' Joke Two thousand-dollar dinners, a four thousand-dollar-plus bill for cell phone roaming charges -- all buried in a 112-page invoice for over $600,000 in legal fees. Sounds like some kind of an April Fools' joke about greedy lawyers, but it's not. To the contrary, as this TMZ article reports, those charges appeared on California attorney Debra Opri's invoice for services provided in connection with her former client Larry Birkhead's efforts to gain custody of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, whom he claims to have fathered. [Hat tip to Crime and Federalism for the article]. Opri's bill serves as a template for what lawyers shouldn't do when invoicing clients. The bill includes multiple, extravagently priced meals that Opri shared with other lawyers, where Birkhead wasn't even present. And while presumably, Opri and her colleagues at least talked about Birkhead's case at these meetings, most clients will wonder how much business is really discussed in the course of a fancy dinner. In other cases, Opri's bills reflect poor inefficient business choices that clients are unlikely to continue to subsidize. For example, Opri billed for $4,000 in roaming charges for time spent in the Bahamas. Surely, in this competitive market, less expensive cell plans were available. And what about VoIP options or Internet as a more cost-efficient means of communicating? In an era where investment in technology can substantially reduce costs, will sophisticated clients remain willing to pay for costs like messenger service (where e-mail or e-fax is available), roaming charges and voluminous paper copies? Opri also billed for less extravagant meals as well as laundry. From my own perspective, I've often wondered about the propriety of charging every meal on travel. After all, unless you work at a place that pays for all of your meals, you still pay to eat even when you're not on travel. So why should clients pick up the cost of every food item simply because you're away on business? Back in mid-March, when Birkhead and Opri first parted ways, Opri explained that the relationship ended because Birkhead had developed a friendship with Howard Stern and was negotiating a settlement to the custody issues. She explained:
After seeing the size of Opri's bill, however, I now wonder whether she was interested in protecting Birkhead's interest or her own cash cow. Posted by Carolyn Elefant on April 2, 2007 at 02:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Do 'U.S. News & World Report' Rankings Pressure Law Schools to Ignore the Solo Option? Predictably, the recent announcement of the U.S. News and World Report's law school rankings has generated observations about some of the factors underlying the rankings, from bar passage rates and faculty scholarship to whether the rankings are at all meaningful. But Susan Cartier Liebel has a different take entirely. In this provocative post, Cartier Liebel contends that the myopic focus on rankings deters law schools from offering meaningful training or support to lawyers who seek to start their own law firms, either directly out of law school or shortly thereafter. Commenting on the recent National Law Journal article entitled When Hanging a Shingle, Solos are Reluctantly Solo (full text available in Cartier Liebel's post), Cartier Liebel writes:
In Cartier Liebel's view, limiting students' options in the name of retaining rankings, is wrong, and she advocates immediate change:
Readers, what's your opinion on this topic? Are law school rankings responsible for the paucity of law school curriculum offerings and counseling services that would help lawyers start law firms straight out of school? And do we need to change the system in response? Posted by Carolyn Elefant on April 2, 2007 at 02:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Blawg Review #102 Blawg Review is celebrating April Fools' Day in a big way, with an announcement of a name change to the Law Blog Review, a partial sighting of Ed. and a specialApril Fools' Day Blawg Review prequel, fittingly sponsored by a Fool in the Forest, George Wallace. And, no fooling, that's all just a big lead up to the actual Blawg Review #102, hosted by Wallace at his alter ego, Declarations and Exclusions blog. Take some time to meander through both the prequel and BlawgReview #102, and you'll find that they're also thematic of April: They shower readers with links to what's fresh around the blogosphere. Posted by Carolyn Elefant on April 2, 2007 at 02:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |
One of the strongest messages I took away from the event is just how powerful social media are. Ben showed us some pretty cool (and, in a few instances, kind of scary) examples of the videos, blogs, and other online content that citizen marketers are creating. I particularly liked the fan version of Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie" music video.
The name tag idea was Ben and Jackie's, and I highly recommend it as a way to get people mingling at your next event. Speaking of the next event, we would love to see you at our final LeaveSmarter event on May 16. Nikos has a powerful message that we're sure will bring this season to an inspiring end.
We'll have some photos from the event up on our Flickr site very soon.
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The President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, signed the reform of the "binominal" electoral system, which will favor election to Congress of forces of the people that have been so far excluded. She said this reform was a pending promise and highlighted that will "mark the country's history."
The minister of finance, Andrés Velasco, commenting on the 5.7% economic activity indicator (Imacec) for February, as informed by the Central Bank, said that the figure shows the our economy is growing. 
The President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, led a ceremony today to launch the new School Technology Policy, known as “Digital Route 2007-2010,” where she reported that approximately US$ 200 million would be spent to “install a total of 260,000 additional computers in our schools over the next three years.”
The President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, declared that “we are not going to stand by when a group of irresponsible kids, and some criminals, assault people and disrupt the life of the city and the people.” She made this and other statements in response to major incidents yesterday marking the Day of the Young Combatant.
With the presence of Vietnamese leaders, diplomats and Chilean business people, among others, ProChile, the Government’s export promotions bureau, opened its first commercial office in Vietnam to better support Chilean exporters seeking access to this dynamic Asian market. The office is located in Ho Chi Minh City, through which 70% of goods exported and imported by Vietnam end up passing.
Chile became one of the first countries in the world to sign on to the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which seeks to protect the more than 650 million people in the world with disabilities.
The President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, swore in the new Minister-Chairman of the National Energy Commission, Marcelo Tokman Ramos, in the Toesca Salon of La Moneda Palace. “We are privileged to have men and women throughout Chile with both ability and experience in public service. Professional success is not enough for these people; they want to contribute to the country, knowing the enormous effort that such a thing entails,” she stated.
