The editors of the MSBA’s Practice Blawg have released their list of the top 25 Minnesota Blawgs for 2011. Rural Lawyer is, again, honored to be included on the list. Take some time to peruse the other 24 honorees – they are all good reads.
October 27, 2011
HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH
Posted by Bruce under Ramblings, Rural Practice | Tags: Blawgs, Canada, Rural Law, Rural Lawyer Shortage, Rural Practice Initiatives |Comments Off
So Owl wrote…and this is what he wrote: HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY. Pooh looked on admiringly. “I’m just saying ‘A Happy Birthday,’” said Owl carelessly. – A. A. Milne
October has swept all most all of her color from the trees and Rural Lawyer now turns 3; which in technological terms is early middle age (at least by Moore’s law standards). One would think that this momentous occasion would be marked by public fanfare and wild acclaim, but alas the world has continued with nary a pause, blithely unaware.
On to other things –
Macleans.ca reports that British Columbia has opened a new law school (the first in 30 years) with the mission of addressing British Columbia’s rural lawyer shortage. The article reports that British Columbia Chief Justice Lance Finch has suggested that the bar will need to double admissions to meet the demand for lawyers. The article notes that the lawyer shortage does not extend to metropolitan Canada.
August 19, 2011
Reviewing the last century
Posted by Bruce under Ramblings, Rural Practice, Small Town Life, Solo Out Of School | Tags: Blawgs, Blogging, Going Solo, Rural Law, Small Town Life, Solo Out Of School |1 Comment
This post marks the first century of my odd ramblings about practicing as a solo out in rural America and I thought I’d mark the occasion by reviewing some of the topics I’ve covered. Rather than doing it through my eye’s, I thought I’d let the words of a keen observer of humanity do it for me, a man who once observed that “Adults are just obsolete children” and whose nonsense has helped to wake up our brain cells and enabled us to laugh at life’s realities – Dr. Seuss.
To keep things straight, the good doctor’s words are in italics. (more…)
June 6, 2011
Hay Fever
Posted by Bruce under On Hiatus, Ramblings | Tags: Blawgs, Blogging, On Hiatus |Comments Off
The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can.
Lisa Williams
Well if this has posted, I’m still waiting on either the weather to improve or my equipment to be repaired. Equipment seldom breaks down when the repair shop is open – if the shop is open, the part you need will, inevitably, have to be ordered at which point, it will be discovered that this particular part has been on back order for the last 18 months because the only factory that makes it has been closed due to a wildcat sympathy strike. Makes me glad that I buy reliable American farm equipment (corporate headquarters in Amsterdam, assembled in Italy with parts from Germany, Canada, and France) rather than that off-brand foreign stuff.
May 30, 2011
Off Cutting Hay
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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sorry, there will be no erudite words of wisdom this week and possibly next. Its time for the first crop of hay and the rural lawyer will be off in search of 5 days of sunshine and light breezes hoping to turn 30 acres of grass into next winter’s feed.
So, depending on the weather, for the next couple of weeks, I’ll be driving machinery around in every decreasing circles at breakneck speeds that will, on occasion, approach 10.5 mph or tending to client needs and will be relying on a few canned posts to fill the gap.
