Colleagues,

Thx to Carolyn for the kind words about Winning Legally. 
As you all know I am totally shameless when it comes to 
asking for help. I put in my tenure packet at HBS this 
April. If anyone felt moved to review Winning Legally in 
ABLJ or elsewhere, that would be very helpful. Thx.

BTW Just finished another great Huber Hurst Seminar. 
Robert, Ginny and crew, you rule.

Connie




On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:46:42 -0500
  "Hotchkiss, Carolyn" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> I now have a couple of requests for the "Perp Walk" 
>Slides.  Happy to
> oblige-they're attached to this message.  If the 
>attachment is filtered
> out, send me an e-mail and I'll send them to you.  My 
>colleague Eli
> Bortman updated them last fall.  I would say they're not 
>complete, given
> the continued emergence of scandals such as Health South 
>and Parmalat. 
> 
> It continues to amaze me that some of our colleagues 
>think the study of
> legal issues is only minimally important to business 
>people. Marc
> Lampe's really thoughtful article in the current JLSE 
>suggests to me
> that one reason we may be fighting the same battle over 
>and over is that
> we need to be thinking about our overall educational 
>objectives for
> students; i.e., that we tend to teach what we were 
>taught when we
> learned law, rather than keeping a managerial focus on 
>problem
> prevention and managing conflict.  Connie Bagley has 
>also re-envisioned
> the legal environment in Winning Legally: How Managers 
>Can Use the Legal
> Environment to Create Value, Marshal Resources and 
>Manage Risk.  The
> title lays out a different way for us to think about 
>what we do (and the
> book is terrific, too).
> 
> Personally, I suspect a second source of our problem is 
>the general
> dislike business people have for lawyers (until they 
>need them).  This
> seems particularly true as we draw faculty and students 
>globally-we
> don't have shared assumptions any more about the rule of 
>law, and the
> vital role of legal institutions and methods in economic 
>development and
> capitalist markets.  Rick should send his colleagues to 
>read Hernando de
> Soto's Mystery of Capital (Or watch a brief but 
>compelling interview
> with him here (at Chapter 19):
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/hi/story/ch_menu_03.html. 
> 
> 
> On that note, a happy weekend to all.
> 
> Carolyn
> 
> Carolyn Hotchkiss
> Professor of Law
> Babson College
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
>From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of 
>Ellis, Liz
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 12:26 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Advice Needed
> 
> Two suggestions:
> 
> 1.  Robert Prentice's article "Lessons Learned in 
>Business School"  in
> the NY Times on Aug. 20, 2002.  I don't have an 
>electronic copy but I
> can fax it to anyone who wants it, and maybe someone 
>else can post the
> article to the list.
> 
> 2.  Carolyn Hotchkiss's "perp walk" powerpoint 
>presentation -- all those
> CEO's in handcuffs ought to convince anyone of the 
>importance of BLAW.
> 
> Liz
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> Lizbeth G. Ellis
> Department Head
> Department of Finance
> College of Business
> New Mexico State University
> P.O. Box 30001, MSC 3FIN
> Las Cruces, NM  88003
> 
> 505-646-3201 (phone)
> 505-646-2820 (fax)
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
>From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of 
>[log in to unmask]
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 4:27 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Advice Needed
> 
> Those of you at schools that offer Executive MBA 
>programs that have law
> couses, please advise on resources that I might use to 
>convince my
> colleagues to retain the legal environment course in our 
>EMBA program.
> The program is undergoing a curriculum review and the 
>law course is on
> the "chopping block".  I would like to save it but need 
>your advice.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Rick