On the first day of a recent patent infringement trial, the wise judge asked Blawgletter and a lawyer for the other side why the case hadn't settled. "Testosterone?", someone said.
That friendly back-and-forth reminded us of something else that seemed to come from the glands rather than the brain. It took the form of a long tit-for-tat
Setting: Sunday morning at the Original House of Pancakes, Northwest Highway unit. Newsprint litters a table. Bitey gulps coffee and tries for eye contact with Snappy, who has just done the crossword.
Bitey: Hey, Snaps — did you read the "The Glass Ceiling" thing in The New York Times? On the page
On Saturday, the partners in Blawgletter's firm voted to make five associates partners as of January 1, 2011.
Congratulations to each of them:
Matt Berry (Seattle)
Daniel Charest (Dallas)
Ryan Kirkpatrick (Los Angeles)
Stephen Shackelford (Dallas)
Arun Subramanian (New York)