Malcolm Richards

Mainly posting on sports with slight detours into the practice of law.

[Malcolm Richards @malducks]

@ProfRobAnderson Delaware is vulnerable, but should this case be one of the reasons why? Independent directors can find themselves without directorships if they develop a bad reputation of opposing what key people want done. The Cloudflare decision does not feel worthy of concern so far.

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@ishanxtwt Good summary. I’ll add that if it’s a middle management divorced white woman with kids, she’s probably hiring another divorced woman with kids.

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@BarExamTutor I am confident that a lawyer thought he was smart in saying something like that, but most firms citing their quality and even efficiency are doing so as justification for higher hourly rates.

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@daniellevine I fully agree with your broader point.

On the forms, I caution that one lawyer’s preference for his forms may undercut our broader point. In the battle of the forms, the counterparty lacks those productivity gains.

[Malcolm Richards @malducks]

@biglawbro Some firms are stuck in the world of DocsOpen and other legacy systems. They inhibit collaboration with single user document locks.

Yeah, it’s imperfect, but I love this new era of document collaboration in legal work, especially on deal schedules.

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@Founded_Alpha @gemchange_ltd Please elaborate.

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@biglawbro I regularly see Claude errors whenever I run it on a lower effort level. I see the precision needed at higher effort levels.

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@MissEsqHire Yes. Fire the associate. My tolerance for and deference to a partner’s handling the described situation is higher.

[Malcolm Richards @malducks]

@lanebrown_3 AES was born in Michigan. Under any standard, he would be a citizen and incapable of deportation.

I appreciate your concern, but deportation is unserious. You must focus on earning votes and winning at the ballot box.

[Malcolm Richards @malducks]

@MissEsqHire “Were you sufficiently serious to research your future employer and its practice partners before interviewing?”

Although it comes across as narcissistic, the answer could be telling. Maybe I should try a softer version: “What do you know about my practice?”

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@Ben_Katz We agree that technology will continue changing legal practice, and AI may enable some tasks like wills to be handled entirely by the client. We even agree that lawyers are bad at business and marketing.

Will 75% of lawyers disappear? Unlikely. AI is a tool, not the conclusion.

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@BillMelugin_ Why would the Democrats accept that deal? The Democrats gain little or nothing.

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@realPrestonHill Warnock is a better, more likable candidate than Ossoff. Warnock also would drive Democrat black turnout higher. This would be a difficult race for Kemp. Kemp would need the wind at his back of a strong Republican turnout based on the presidential race.

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@GrahamCoffeyDC Unfortunately, only coaches seem fired for bad work. High level executive leadership, especially in academia, just skates along, with the occasional rearranging of deck chairs.

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@jeffhunt Libertarians embrace having no responsibility for anything. They preach their ideas are too pure for coalition building. Out of contemptuous laziness, they do nothing to build a coalition to achieve them. The rest of us dirty our hands with compromises.

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@realPrestonHill Kemp would have won because motivation and infrastructure would have been in place.

Jackson bought his support. Collins didn’t attract voters.

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@Hawks_HomeCourt I’ll be glad to have each back, but only Landale has the weight to make a difference. Gueye is a PF in body type, and Newell is not a center.

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@MatthewRothman6 @FalcoholicKevin And he was dreadful at college talent identification

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@RustyMansell_ Please help me understand why. Chambliss is 6’, which is small for NFL QBs. He elected to return to school after weak draft predictions. At 24, he has 6 years in college athletics, and his stats are consistent with last year. What would make him a first round pick in 2026?