Perry Stein of the Washington City Paper wrote yesterday that “Washington Post Cafeteria Shut Down After ‘Evidence of Some Mice Activity.’” Apparently, Jeffrey Cox, the paper’s director of administration and operating services, alerted the staff in a company-wide email this morning, writing the “cafeteria will be temporarily closed due to deficiencies found during a routine

A few months ago I received this email:

Dear Mr. Marler,

After speaking with __________, _________ would much prefer to invite you to be a speaker at our next annual meeting of the _________, to be held on _________, 2015 rather than inviting you to one of our smaller roundtable meetings. The _________ annual meeting

I had the chance to speak at Avvo’s Lawyernomics Conference today.  The audience wanted to know how I built my practice.  It was really simple:

  • Find your passion
  • Learn everything you can about the topic
  • Work hard – very hard
  • Become an expert
  • Let your successes speak for themselves
  • Communicate effectively
  • Bottom Line – “Doing

The email in my inbox this morning enclosing a questionnaire asking about the possible link between foodborne illnesses and last weeks Food Safety Summit was tempting enough.  The dozens of emails from attendees from around the world that followed made the irony complete – a potential foodborne illness outbreak at the Food Safety Summit –

This just landed in my inbox:

Dear Food Safety Summit Attendee,

The Baltimore City Health Department and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Division of Outbreak Investigation are investigating illnesses among people who were at the Baltimore Convention Center from April 8-10, 2014.  We have not yet determined how people became ill, and

I was reading a few news reports about the some of the Clinton presidential papers being released and this item caught my attention:

The White House also debated hard-ball strategies to undercut Republicans and garner favorable press coverage. In July 1995, the White House considered enlisting disease victims to help criticize Republican-led budget cuts. Public

In the 1970’s comedian Flip Wilson made the phrase “The devil made me do it” a household punchline.  It was funny.  A twist on Flip’s humor is now making its way into a Georgia federal courthouse.

Judge W. Louis Sands, presiding over the criminal case against Stewart Parnell, the owner, of the now-defunct Peanut Corp.