So much depends on your lucky tie or that special confidence-boosting blouse. In their third fashion installment, sartorial lawyers Robin Haynes and Vincent Humphrey offer their advice for keeping clothes crisp and clean.
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February is a great month for book releases. Here are just a few of the titles we’re most excited about this month — fiction and nonfiction. And don’t forget to check out the March 2015 issue of NWLawyer for a new Literary Lawyer column with book reviews, news, and more.
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Is your work wardrobe in dire need of some 21st-century updates? You’re not alone. In part 1 of this post, we looked at some quick fixes like statement jewelry, faux-leather pieces, and edgy metallic and animal-print accents. Now we’re getting serious with wool coats, using tights and boots to expand your winter outfit options, and […]
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When I was a Seattle Times intern in Olympia in college, I had two pairs of work pants: one pinstriped, one black. I also had two pairs of work shoes: a pair of horrid black loafers with white topstitching and knee-high black boots with weird square witch toes. I would team the two pairs of […]
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Downtown Seattle offices (the WSBA included) are once again covered in blue and green as the Seahawks face the New England Patriots this Sunday with hopes to become the eighth team to win back-to-back Super Bowl Championships. Is your town celebrating Blue Friday? Share a picture in the comments! If you’re looking for some last-minute […]
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It’s time to think about holiday gifts for your favorite attorney! Save the neckties and desk clocks for Father’s Day: treat the lawyers on your list with one of these clever items and you’re sure to be the hero of the holiday party. (Not quite what you’re looking for? You can find more ideas in […]
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This post was written by Jesse Woo and originally published on the Washington Lawyers for the Arts Blog. Read the full post. In addition to the basic overview and fair use analysis, public perception of Girls and this case raises another issue that I want to address. There has been much talk of the Beastie Boys’ decision not to allow commercial advertising […]
Read More… This post was written by Jesse Woo and originally published on the Washington Lawyers for the Arts Blog. Read the full post. To recap where we left off, in a very short period of time we went from feminist Legos (K’Nex?) to full blown intellectual property litigation. It seems that GoldieBlox’s offer to drop its […]
Read More…Examine interesting copyright issues with this post from Washington Lawyers for the Arts. This post was written by Jesse Woo and originally published on the Washington Lawyers for the Arts Blog. Read the full post. Feminism vs. creative control, parodists vs. rights holders, the ongoing GoldieBlox litigation has been cast in a variety of lights, […]
Read More…Is there an app for that? NWLawyer Editor Michael Heatherly’s shares his list of apps that attorneys could really use. As we race through our cyber-driven lives, we cling desperately to our smartphones and tablets, entrusting more and more of our brain functions to “apps.” Besides all the mass-market apps we use to buy stocks, hire dogsitters, […]
Read More…NWLawyer Editor Michael Heatherly shares 5 of his favorite music videos. I spend more time than I’d like to admit watching music videos on YouTube. I especially like finding ones that catch my eye and ear despite falling outside conventional music industry formats. Following are 5 I come back to regularly for musical entertainment and […]
Read More…NWLawyer Editor Michael Heatherly’s list of hypothetical tribute band names, with goodies like “Meetwood Flac” and “French Kiss.” Remember those aptitude tests from high school? I scored really well in the areas of nursing and agriculture, which was weird, because there were probably no two academic areas in which I had less knowledge, interest, or […]
Read More…Burned out? Bummed out? Second-guessing your decision to pursue a career in the law? I have the antidote. Below are 5 of the best courtroom scenes ever from Hollywood movies. You’ve probably seen them all before — but that’s because they’re classics. Never mind that they don’t much resemble what actually goes on in court. Nobody would watch a movie in […]
Read More…The Seattle Times recently featured an interesting article about Seattle fashion sense, which asked whether Seattle is one of the country’s worst dressed cities. Interestingly enough, the results of the featured study showed that Seattle ladies represent pretty well, coming in as fourth-best dressed after San Francisco, New York and D.C. The dudes are dragging […]
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