This post is from the non-Dechert side of the blog
Not long ago, one of our co-bloggers fielded some correspondence that, distilled from its abundant rhetoric, seemed to criticize a blog post for its defense-leaning bias. Given this, we hasten to reiterate, before we begin today’s post, that this is a defense blog. We are
We write on a lovely Sunday afternoon, much of which was devoted to trying to figure out what the oldest of the Drug and Device Law Little Rescue Dogs would deign to eat. We should note that we would do literally anything for this frail, scruffy angel incarnate. To wit, we have cooked fresh beef
We are back from a weeklong vacation in Greece, with time split between Athens and a lovely, tiny, lightly-touristed island called Symi. We offer these observations:
We write this as we prepare to leave for an overseas trip. We have our N95s, our face shields, and our vaccine card, along with a bit of apprehension and a large measure of giddy gratitude. It has been a long eighteen months (and counting). We’ll fill in some details next time, but we’ll sign
We find ourselves, once again, hungry for good news. We just canceled a trip to see dear friends outside of Glacier National Park because Montana hospitals are so overfilled with anti-vax COVID patients that anyone with any medical emergency risks being turned away. Afghanistan fell to the Taliban. And, on a more “micro” level, we
We have news to report. No, we don’t mean the resignation of New York’s governor, though we can’t say we’ve shed many tears. And we certainly don’t have much good news about Greece, where we are supposed to be headed in a few weeks. Between Delta (Greece is now back in the CDC’s “Level Four”)
The Drug and Device Law Rock Climber celebrated her birthday this week by acquiring a companion for the Irascible Rescue Pomeranian (you can read about him here). The new family member is a four-month-old Australian Shepherd mix, pure white with blue eyes. We sense figurative ears perking up at this description, as dog- (and
We wanted avocado toast for lunch a week or two ago. And we had a perfect avocado on the kitchen counter and some nice whole-grain bread in the breadbox. So we cut the avocado in half, “unscrewed” it to leave the pit in one half, then drove the point of a sharp knife into the
Before we turn to today’s case, a quick update: when last we spoke, we were about to board a plane for Peoria – our first work trip in sixteen months. We were excited about it. We regret to report that we stepped out of the plane into something resembling a weird post-apocalyptic Mad Max movie.
We are going to Peoria next week. On an airplane. Ordinarily, this would not be newsworthy, but we are irrationally excited to be taking this step toward normalcy. We have long comforted apprehensive young lawyers by assuring them that any event provoking fear would soon recede into the past tense. The last year did not