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The scam what am

Bookworm on Jan 15 2008 | Filed under: Law

If you want to witness the interesting spectacle of my going from a fairly mild mannered, motherly lawyer type, to a screaming, foaming-at-the-mouth harridan, mention one acronym:  MCLE.  This stands for Minimum Continuing Legal Education, which I found an inconvenience when I was a big firm attorney and that I find an economic and time [...]

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The ultimate bureaucracy

Bookworm on Nov 25 2007 | Filed under: Economics, Europe

I’ve disliked the EU ever since, in a moment of absolute insanity, I took a class on EU law when I was in law school. It was a Kafka-esque nightmare — and that was just studying about it, not experiencing it.
If you want some small insight into experiencing it, read this Spiegel article that [...]

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