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Getting The Right Advisors - II
By: Andrew J. Sherman, Esq.
Dickstein Shapiro LLC
Advisors, Accountants and Consultants
One key critical success factor for early-stage companies is the need to hire the right team of advisors, accountants, consultants and other external professional advisors in a wide variety of business disciplines (such as marketing, sales, finance, administrative management, strategic planning, computer systems, manufacturing, production, advertising, operations and personnel) as and when needed as a source of valuable advice.
As a general rule, professional service providers and business consultants are hired to fill a particular need of the early-stage company, such as: expert advice in a particular field of knowledge; readily available pool of human resources when you can't hire full-time employees; dentification and solution of specific problems or barriers to growth; timulation or implementation of new ideas, technology or programs; a sounding board (or even shoulder to cry on); access to contacts and resources (the opening of the rolodex); and insights on the successes and failures of other companies similarly situated.
Once the exact reason or specific project or problem has been identified, there are certain key questions which must be addressed during the selection process, such as:
How does the background, education and experience of the particular advisor relate to the task or problem at hand?
How does the professional advisor charge for its services? What billing options, if any, are available? Does the firm offer any creative billing options, such as equity for services (see below), deferred fees, reduced rates or project-specific discounts or contingencies? How do rates vary among various members of the firm? How much will it cost to accomplish this specific project to resolve the problem?
Which staff members will actually be assigned to this project? What is the expertise of these particular members of the firm? Will you be able to get access to other members of the firm with specialized expertise on an as needed basis?
What is the firm's anticipated timetable for completing the work? What progress reports will be provided? What input will the management team have to give to the service provider?
What is the service provider's representative client base? What references can be provided? Does the firm have any actual or potential conflicts of interest? How does the company compare to the firm's existing client base?
The Selection Process
The process of selecting, retaining, and knowing how and when to use a professional advisor is among the more important business decisions that an entrepreneur must make, both initially at the outset of the business and throughout the growth of the company. Yet, most entrepreneurs express frustration, dissatisfaction and confusion when asked about the professional advisor selection and retention process. Many owners point to high fees, failure to meet deadlines, lack of business savvy, inaccessibility, inability to cut through red tape and mountains of paperwork, inexperienced junior staff, and a general inability to understand the business ramifications of legal and strategic decisions as the sources of their ongoing problems with advisors. As a result, these advisors are viewed as a necessary evil who do not understand the business considerations of proposed transactions. Therefore, the entrepreneur may take matters into its own hands, only to have the proposed agreement or strategy backfire creating even larger problems than ever anticipated. Experienced professional advisors can and should be key members of the external management team of early-stage companies, but this does not mean that they need to be involved in every step of every transaction. The key to a prosperous and harmonious advisor entrepreneur relationship is knowing how to select and when to seek advice from an advisor.
For example, in selecting a legal advisor, if your idea of an advisor with strong corporate legal skills and business acumen begins with an ability to keep your spouse away from key assets in a hotly-contested marital dispute, then think again. The days when your divorce advisor could also handle a complicated corporate transaction are long gone. Due to the increasing complexity of the law and the ever-growing specialization of the legal profession, the division of assets in your family in a divorce or in estate planning, and the division of assets in your corporation in a merger, acquisition or shareholders agreement must be handled by two very different types of advisors. Although it is more than likely that the adviser who prepared your will could also assist in the performance of routine corporate tasks during the formation of the company, many general practitioners are quickly outgrown as the business expands and legal needs become more complex. As a result, you must periodically assess whether your current advisor and/or law firm best meets their legal interests and requirements.
You are likely to have varying personal preferences with respect to the age, experience and interests of the advisor you hire. Priority may be placed on experience and clout (which would tend to favor an older, more seasoned advisor) or on aggressiveness and cost (which would tend to favor a younger advisor). However, it is dangerous to place too great a priority either on experience or billing rates. For example, an older advisor with time constraints is likely to assign the project to a younger, less experienced advisor, and a younger advisor who offers lower billable rates may take twice as long to complete the assigned project. Similarly, age and reputation should be viewed with a grain of salt. An advisor practicing for three years who has devoted all of his or her attention to a given industry will probably know more about that industry than would a general consultant with 30 years experience. Nonetheless, there are certain common denominators that a company should identify when selecting its professional advisor:
Responsiveness - An advisor must be able to meet a client's timetable for accomplishing a particular transaction or implementing a particular strategy. An advisor with all the expertise in the world on a given legal topic is of no use to a company if the knowledge can't be communicated to the client in a clear and timely fashion. Make sure that deadlines are discussed and that the advisor has adequate resources set aside to meet those requirements in accordance with the schedule established.
Business Acumen - Many advisors are criticized by their clients as being unable to comprehend the business ramifications of legal decisions. Small companies need independent and objective advisors with broad-based experiences, but may also need a consultant with business acumen, management and marketing skills, and a genuine understanding of the specific industry in which the company operates. Advisors with tunnel vision who lack the ability to understand the impact of the law on the client's business goals and objectives should not make legal decisions and strategies.
Reputation - It goes without saying that a company will want to hire advisors with a good reputation in the business community. However, reputation goes beyond a series of names on a door or letterhead. In considering the references of a prospective advisor, you should look closely at the foundation upon which the reputation has been built. Is the advisor's reputation primarily due to the accomplishments of named partners who have been dead for over 20 years? Or, on the other hand, maybe the advisor enjoys a fine reputation as a golfer and a philanthropist, but no one can really give you an opinion as to the quality of his legal documentation. Be careful of those who have build a reputation solely on the basis of heavy networking but where the advisor's actual legal or strategic planning skills are uncertain.
Philosophy and Approach - You need to understand an advisor's or firm's overall philosophy and approach. Are they more inclined to be "deal makers" or "deal breakers?" Are they truly trusted advisors or more of a necessary evil? Do they understand the importance of value-added relationships (e.g. bringing more to the table than just good documents or accurate advice)? Are they an asset or a liability to your company's growth and its ability to meet or exceed its business plan?
Representative Client Base - Just because an advisor's list of clients reads like a Who's Who of the Fortune 500 does not necessarily mean that the legal needs of a growing company would be understood. As it has often been said, "A Small Business Is Not A Little Big Business", yet many consultants assume that because they have handled a $500 million acquisition, they can understand the legal needs of the parties to a $500,000 dollar transaction. Although some of the planning and strategizing may be similar, the business goals and philosophies of the parties are likely to be very different. The advisor's client base should also be evaluated to determine whether there are any actual or potential conflicts of interest, complementary resources or whether the advisor has experience in prior matters which are relevant to your company.
Billing Rates and Policies - Managing the cost of consultants is of especially great concern when your resources for professional advisory services may be scarce. The good news is that increasing competition among advisors for small business clients demonstrating growth potential has created a certain amount of flexibility in billing policies. At the same time, however, advisors at firms of all sizes expect to be paid for quality services which have been rendered within a client's deadline. There is nothing more frustrating or offensive to any professional service provider than to work nights and weekends for a client who does not pay its bills. Therefore, it is important that any mystery or confusion concerning the billing rates and policies be clarified before any work is commenced. One effective means of controlling billing rates and policies (as well as defining related rights and obligations of the advisor and the client) is the use of a retainer agreement. A retainer agreement is for the protection of both parties because it resolves any mystery about the relationship before any work commences. The components of a well-drafted engagement agreement include:
- the nature of the services to be provided;
- the compensation for services rendered;
- the use of initial retainers or contingent fees;
- the reimbursement of fees and expenses;
- the conditions for withdrawal of counsel or termination of the relationship;
- the counsel's duty to provide status reports;
- the time limitations or timetables for completion or work
- the ceilings or budgets (if any) which have been set for legal fees; and
- any special provisions needed in the agreement as a result of the nature of the project (e.g., rules governing media relations, , protocol, etc.).
Government and University Programs
Several Federal, state and local government programs have been established to support economic development and owners of small businesses. For state or local programs, you should check with the relevant economic development department within your state, your state chamber of commerce or your local government. Many universities have established entrepreneurship centers which offer a wide variety of resources to foster and support both regional entrepreneurship as well as student entrepreneurship. For some examples, take a look at the Dingman Center For Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland www.rhsmith.umd.edu/dingman or the Rothman Institute at Fairleigh Dickinson University www.fdu.edu in New Jersey
Two Federal programs that come to mind, each with their roots as outgrowths of Small Business Administration (www.sba.gov) (whose District offices can also be an effective resource) are the SBDC program and the SCORE program.
Small Business Development Center (SBDC) (www.asbdc-us.org)
Provides management and technical assistance to more than 1.3 million small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs each year. Small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs can go to their local SBDCs for free, face-to-face business consulting and at-cost training on writing business plans, accessing capital, marketing, regulatory compliance, international trade and more. The SBDCs are a partnership that includes Congress, the U.S. Small Business Association (SBA), the private sector, and the colleges, universities and state governments that manage SBDCs across the nation. The SBDCs raised nearly $109 million in non-Federal resources (to match $88 million in Federal funding) to serve small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs in FY 2004.
Service Corp of Retired Executives (SCORE) Program (www.score.org)
The SCORE Association, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneurial education and the formation, growth and success of small businesses nationwide. SCORE is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization. We provide a public service to America by offering small business advice and training. Formed in 1964 to help small businesses flourish. SCORE's 10,500 volunteers have more than 600 business skills. Volunteers share their wisdom and lessons learned in business. Our volunteers are working/retired business owners, executives and corporate leaders.
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ANDREW J. SHERMAN is a Partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Dickstein Shapiro LLP, with over 350 attorneys nationwide. Mr. Sherman is a recognized international authority on the legal and strategic issues affecting small and growing companies. Mr. Sherman is an Adjunct Professor in the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) program at the University of Maryland and Georgetown University where he teaches courses on business growth, capital formation and entrepreneurship. Mr. Sherman is the author of eighteen (18) books on the legal and strategic aspects of business growth and capital formation including his latest book Road Rules: Be The Truck. Not The Squirrel. (www.bethetruck.com). Mr. Sherman can be reached at 202-420-5000 or e-mail email@example.com.
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The Most Lucrative Numbers In Lotto History
Lucky Lottery Numbers
Lottery players put a lot of thought into their selections, some numbers are overused because of the false assumption that they are lucky, while others are shunned because they are thought to bring ill fortune. If you're betting on lotteries here at Lottoland obviously you want to pick winning numbers. So, to inform your choices, we've analysed the winning tickets from the world's biggest lottery wins to reveal the facts and figures behind the numbers, and see if luck and superstition have any impact on the most lucrative combinations in lotto history.
The two biggest EuroMillions winners came from the UK, the first was Colin and Christine Weir, who banked £161 million in their incredible win. Their pick; 17, 19, 38, 42 and 45, and the Lucky Stars 9 and 10 made them as rich as the Beckhams.
Of their selection only 19 appears in the 10 most commonly picked numbers, although none of their choice are amongst the 10 least commonly picked numbers.
Adrian and Gillian Bayford won the second highest EuroMillions jackpot ever in 2012, taking home £148 million. Their winning numbers were 50, 21, 17, 48 and 11, and the Lucky Star numbers 09 and 10.
Their lucky selection included number 48, which is one of the least commonly drawn numbers in the EuroMillions, only 46, 41, 2 and 32 have been drawn less often.
Number 50 on the other hand, is the ball that appears the most in the whole lottery, featuring 109 times since launch.
It's also worth noting that both couples had the Lucky Stars numbers 9 and 10. While 9 is the joint most common Lucky Star, 10 is the 2nd least likely to appear, after 11.


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A Long Night's Journey
By Graham Swift
Knopf. 255 pp. $23.95
For the second time this year, a Booker Prize winner has given us a short novel about a single night in bed. In June, Ian McEwan described an awkward honeymoon on Chesil Beach. And now Graham Swift wants to keep us awake with Tomorrow, a monologue in which a mother lies next to her husband, worrying about a revelation that will soon alter their lives. Superficially, both novels are about sex in the 1960s: for McEwan, really bad sex, and for Swift, really good sex. But while McEwan makes us cringe at his careful analysis of two nervous virgins, Swift makes us cringe for entirely different reasons.
Tomorrow opens in the anxious hours of a midsummer's night in 1995. Paula Hook, an art dealer in London, is obsessing over the horrible news that she and her husband will reveal to their 16-year-old twins in the morning: "You're asleep, my angels," she says. "So, to my amazement and relief, is your father, like a man finding it in him to sleep on the eve of his execution."
What an exquisitely suspenseful introduction, and Graham ratchets up our apprehension with each paragraph. Since Nick and Kate were born, Paula and her husband have been dreading this day. Dishes from the "terminal supper" of their "last day" have been put away, and now she imagines the coming scene at breakfast, how her husband will deliver "the biggest speech of his life," how her children will receive the news. "It's time you were told," she thinks, but will her husband survive the ordeal? "I picture a bomb going off and this house falling to bits." And then, just when you can't stand the anxiety of this mystery one more moment, it goes on for 100 more pages:
"How different tomorrow will be."
"Tomorrow looks like being a rainy day, my darlings."
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Dr. Stephen T. Colbert DFA uses the following truths elicited from his gut to educate small children about the dangers of the highly addictive and often murderous substance that is mushrooms.
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Dr. Toth specializes in the evaluation and surgical treatment of vitreoretinal diseases in adults and children and has pioneered the development of macular translocation surgery for age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Her particular clinical interests and skills also include the surgical treatment of macular diseases (such as, macular hole, epiretinal membrane and vitreomacular traction), retinal detachment, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), and retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). She is a world expert in retinal imaging with optical coherence tomography (OCT) and pioneered both the first use of a research hand-held spectral domain OCT system for infant examination and a novel intraoperative real-time swept source OCT-guided ophthalmic surgical system. With the pediatric system, her multidisciplinary team has demonstrated novel eye-brain linkage during preterm development. Dr. Toth performed the world's first intraoperative swept-source OCT imaging with heads-up display during macular surgery and is perfecting such techniques. She has been repeatedly honored among the Best Doctors in America.
Dr. Toth is also professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering. Her primary research interests are in translational research and early-application clinical trials with a focus on novel retinal imaging with spectral domain and swept source optical coherence tomography (SD and SSOCT). Dr. Toth's Laboratory, the Duke Advanced Research in Spectral Domain OCT Imaging (DARSI) Laboratory centers on improving early diagnostic methods, imaging biomarkers and therapies for both age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and for retinal diseases in children. Sina Farsiu, PhD, provides expertise in advanced image processing for SDOCT in the DARSI Laboratory. In collaboration with Joseph Izatt, PhD in Biomedical Engineering, the DARSI team is currently applying SD and SSOCT to the care of retinal diseases and especially in microsurgery in adults and in children in several studies including NIH funded investigations.
In research in optical coherence tomography (OCT),Dr. Toth was co-founder and is the Director of Grading for OCT for the Duke Reading Center and has designed and directed OCT analysis for many multicenter clinical trials. This center provides support in training, data acquisition, and grading for multicenter clinical trials utilizing optical coherence tomography as an outcome measure.
Dr. Toth chairs the Multicenter Age Related Eye Disease Study 2 Ancillary SDOCT (A2ASDOCT) Study. She also directed studies of macular translocation surgery (MT360) for patients with severe AMD, along with her co-investigator Dr. Sharon Freedman. Macular translocation surgery is not only a salvage treatment for AMD patients who lose vision despite other therapies, but it is a unique way to isolate the retina for study separate from underlying pathology. Imaging and retinal function data have contributed to teasing out events in the macula related to vision loss.
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Can someone just tell me not to worry about this?
I'm going for coffee with a guy.. It's the first time we will be together and talking one-on-one, and I'm just so nervous. I've been on dates before but for some reason this guy just feels different. It's the first time where we both saw each other and were both attracted to each other, and now it's being put into motion.. And I'm just so scared. I just came out of a 4 month relationship that was terrible (he treated me like I was just his little object; he didn't truly care about me... I was blind and only saw through his words and actions until I was out. He had bad anger problems too) and now I'm just scared. Like why am I even trying? That was the only relationship in my 21 years that I've been in, and all the other dates and "almosts" always never worked out either. My stomach is so upset right now and I feel so nervous. It's as if I'm scared this could actually turn out well, and then I'll be starting something huge that could truly change my life, and that thought just really scares me. I don't want to lose myself like I had before. i feel like the best prophet of the future is the past, and so this will turn out like all the others and I'll just be really depressed.
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The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) is building a new DOE software center.
DOE Code is the reimagining of OSTI's current product for the submission of software, the Energy Science and Technology Software Center, or ESTSC. Since DOE Code is still under development, if you need to submit, search, or order software, please visit the ESTSC site for instructions.
DOE Code, when launched, will provide a best-in-class service for the submission of software. As a form of scientific and technical information, software is a result of the Department's research and development activities at the DOE national laboratories and other DOE facilities/contractors.
DOE Code will provide an open source, social platform for DOE scientific software. DOE Code will connect to repositories on GitHub, Bitbucket, and others, but will also provide a place to host code for users that are unable to use other hosting services. Since DOE Code is itself an open source product, other institutions will be able to download and deploy it for their own purposes too. You can follow DOE Code's development at the DOE Code GitHub site.
To provide a new, modern way of interacting, DOE Code will not only provide the ability to link to references (papers, datasets) but also to other documents, manuals, examples, charts, forums, etc., in one place. All of this scientific and technical information will be linked to scientific software, whether it be software for modeling and simulation, data analytics or instrument control.
The current software center, ESTSC, contains over 3,500 distinct pieces of software resulting from DOE R&D, as well as selected software from the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. ESTSC is the centralized DOE software management portal. The ESTSC portal provides access to software packages, including source code, executable object code, and the minimum support documentation (e.g., software user guide or manual) needed to use the software or to modify the software to support subsequent development efforts.
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Over the next few weeks the United States House of Representatives will begin consideration of landmark legislation designed to overhaul America's broken health care system. Approximately 50 million Americans, or 20% of Oklahomans, do not have health insurance. It is a statistic that Washington has tried to address for decades.
There have been numerous ideas put forward on how to bridge this gap and lower the cost of coverage, but little bi-partisan consensus has been reached. The primary point of contention between the drafters of the current health care reform bill and its critics has been the viability of a "public option," or government-run insurance plan.
The primary reason the public option has become the focal point of debate is the potential financial ramifications facing the health insurance industry. There is a belief among some members of Congress that a "public plan" will crowd-out private insurance, stifle reimbursement payments to doctors, and lead America slowly down the road to single payer health care.
I will admit that there is a very real potential for the health insurance industry to lose significant market share if a public option is part of any health care reform package.
But lost among those concerns is the frustration that many Americans feel toward our current health insurance system. Every year millions of citizens and thousands of small business owners feel exploited and taken advantage of by the health insurance industry. Whether it is denied claims or double-digit rate increases, many Americans feel the time is now for the federal government to step-in and give our citizens another option.
My view on a public plan is mixed. I am ardently opposed to single payer health care. I believe that America's free market health care system is the primary reason our country has the best specialized medical care in the world. Thousands of foreigners travel to the United States every year to get medical treatment at prestigious facilities like the Mayo Clinic, St. Jude Children's Hospital, and the University of Oklahoma Medical Center.
But the free market health insurance system has significant gaps - many of which have festered for decades.
On the preventive side, a significant number of insurance plans provide little to no pre-deductible coverage for preventive tests like colonoscopies and extensive blood work, which causes thousands of insured Americans to forgo important preventive treatments that save countless lives and millions of dollars. Additionally, health insurance is virtually impossible for any citizen to obtain that has a pre-existing condition like diabetes, sleep apnea, or a previous cancer diagnosis.
Furthermore, almost all individual plans lack basic maternity coverage and usually come with medical deductibles that exceed $2,500. Add to that, the fact that the U.S. has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the developed world, and you can understand the call for immediate action.
The bells of health care reform are ringing loud and clear in Washington. Americans want action and the passage of a broad-based health care reform bill looks likely. We in Congress must cautiously move forward with health care reform, while preserving America's reputation as the world-class leader in top-end health care. Members of Congress must make certain that health care reform preserves a patient's ability to choose their doctor, allows physicians to earn the salaries they deserve, and does not stifle innovation. As the text of the legislation is released, and a thorough examination of its policy implications is conducted, I will keep an open and honest eye out for hard-working Oklahomans.
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Component Design Engineers are responsible for the design and development of electronic components. Responsibilities may include: the design of chip layout circuit design, circuit checking, device evaluation and characterization, documentation of specifications, prototype construction and checkout, modification and evaluation of semiconductor devices and components, performing developmental and/or test work, reviewing product requirements and logic diagrams, planning and organizing design projects or phases of design projects. Responds to customer/client requests or events as they occur. Develops solutions to problems utilizing formal education and judgment.
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Case Law On Trial: 1915 – 1945
Posted on 24th Mar 2015 in Historic Cases, ICLR News, Law Reporting
ICLR has been creating case history and supporting the administration of justice for 150 years. In celebration of this we will publish a special Anniversary Edition containing the 15 top cases voted for by you, our readers. We are putting our cases on trial and we need you to give us your verdict.
The second voting period, 1915 to 1945 saw two decades of social upheaval bookended by two world wars whose excesses still haunt us today, up to a century later. The muddy massacre of trench warfare gave way to the frivolous Roaring Twenties and then the Depression and its monstrous political offspring, Fascism on the one side and Soviet Communism on the other. But what effect did any of this have on the common law?
The cases shortlisted for this period include some inspired by wartime exigencies. From the First World War, the case of Attorney-General v De Keyser's Royal Hotel Ltd [1920] AC 508 involved the requisitioning on behalf of the Royal Flying Corps of an hotel (whose owner, De Keyser, sounds like a mispronounced version of the enemy leader's title, Kaiser) without bothering to pay compensation. The House of Lords held that the royal prerogative having been replaced by a statutory power, the authorities were limited by the scope of the statute, under which they were required to pay the Keyser bill.
From the Second World War, Liversidge v Anderson [1942] AC 206, concerned wartime regulations giving the secretary of state power to act on the basis of a reasonable belief, in detaining a person believed to be of hostile associations. The House of Lords held, by a majority, that these regulations precluded any inquiry or review of the secretary of state's belief or whether he had reasonable grounds for it. The case is more famous now for Lord Atkin's dissenting speech, with its principled refusal to dilute the rule of law in favour of wartime expediency, at p 244:
In this country, amid the clash of arms, the laws are not silent. They may be changed, but they speak the same language in war as in peace. It has always been one of the pillars of freedom, one of the principles of liberty for which on recent authority we are now fighting, that the judges are no respecters of persons and stand between the subject and any attempted encroachments on his liberty by the executive, alert to see that any coercive action is justified in law. In this case I have listened to arguments which might have been addressed acceptably to the Court of King's Bench in the time of Charles I.
I protest, even if I do it alone, against a strained construction put on words with the effect of giving an uncontrolled power of imprisonment to the minister.
From peacetime, the decisions chosen range from what would now be called fairly aggressive tax avoidance, approved by the House of Lords in Inland Revenue Comrs v Duke of Westminster [1936] AC 1, to the meaning of "money" in a will in Perrin v Morgan [1943] AC 399. There are cases on points of practice, such as the limitations on the power of the Court of Appeal to depart from its own previous decisions in Young v Bristol Aeroplane Co Ltd [1944] KB 718, and the scope of legal professional privilege in More v Weaver [1928] 2 KB 520, CA. There's also an important case on privity of contract (Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd v Selfridge & Co Ltd [1915] AC 847, HL(E)).
But the two most important cases of this period probably need no further introduction. They are etched into every law student's consciousness by the colourful imagery associated with them.
The first involves a snail in a bottle of ginger beer and goes by the name of Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562. What's interesting about this case is that it came (to the House of Lords) from Scotland, where it concerned the law of delict, but is generally regarded as the foundation stone of the English law of negligence, in the area of what we would now call product liability. In it, Lord Atkin identified what is now known as the "neighbour" principle, as a test for when a tortious duty of care may arise.
I have written about this case before – see my introduction to the ICLR Special Issue of 2001 – and it was also the subject of one of the most popular of the ICLR Annual Lectures, given by Matthew Chapman, Barrister in 2010: The Snail and the Ginger Beer: The Singular Case of Donoghue v Stevenson. It may seem an obvious choice, but with one week left to go, it has secured a clear lead with 50% of the vote.
In second place on the scoreboard (with 14%) is Woolmington v Director of Public Prosecutions [1935] AC 462, another case no law student can afford to forget, nor indeed anyone familiar with the televised courtroom dramas featuring Rumpole of the Bailey, who is fond of quoting the words of Viscount Sankey, Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords, at p 481:
Throughout the web of the English Criminal Law one golden thread is always to be seen, that it is the duty of the prosecution to prove the prisoner's guilt subject to what I have already said as to the defence of insanity and subject also to any statutory exception. If, at the end of and on the whole of the case, there is a reasonable doubt, created by the evidence given by either the prosecution or the prisoner, as to whether the prisoner killed the deceased with a malicious intention, the prosecution has not made out the case and the prisoner is entitled to an acquittal. No matter what the charge or where the trial, the principle that the prosecution must prove the guilt of the prisoner is part of the common law of England and no attempt to whittle it down can be entertained.
Next to this case, another ringing endorsement of the English legal system should be set, R v Sussex Justices, Ex p McCarthy [1924] 1 KB 256, 259. It contains a memorable judicial expression of the principle of open justice, in the words of Lord Hewart, Lord Chief Justice, at p 259, that
a long line of cases shows that it is not merely of some importance but is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.
The opening phrase suggests there may be earlier cases in which this principle has been expressed, but if so they are not cited, and I should be grateful if anyone else can find them. But the phrase Lord Hewart used has passed into common parlance, so much so that it has been riffed into humour, such as to suggest that, in some nations or circumstances, the justice on offer, far from being done, should be "seen to be believed".
Between them, Lord Atkin (in Donoghue v Stevenson and in Liversidge v Anderson), Lord Hewart (in Ex p McCarthy) and, perhaps most fundamentally Lord Sankey (in Woolmington), expressed principles which I think can fairly be characterised as the fundamental pillars of English, or indeed common law, justice. Up to a century later, we are still fighting to defend these principles against the depredations of careless commerce and a jealous state. Let us remain vigilant to ensure their endurance.
If the snail is bound to win, with the golden thread in second place, there's still time to influence the decision as to the third of our nominated cases.
Liversidge has got 9% while Ex p McCarthy follows with 7% and De Keyser with 6%. There's a week of voting still to go, and you can make the difference!
Finally, I should mention that four additional cases were nominated by readers. But first, a reminder: the option is to nominate "another case reported by ICLR during this period of its history". Unfortunately, three of those nominated so far this month are actually not from this period. Therefore, they will be considered in the context of the period to which they belong. The sole relevant nomination is Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour Ltd [1943] AC 32, which concerned frustration of a contract by reason of the war, and the unjust enrichment potentially arising therefrom.
Nominating this case for ICLR Vote, Low Weng Tchung comments:
Leading case (at the time) on the law of unjust enrichment. Lord Wright's famous observation [at p 61]: "It is clear that any civilised system of law is bound to provide remedies for cases of what has been called unjust enrichment or unjust benefit, that is to prevent a man from retaining the money of or some benefit derived from another which it is against conscience that he should keep."
If you agree, and you haven't already voted, you can nominate it yourself. But bear in mind it faces some pretty stiff competition.


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Milwaukee may not be the most glamorous city in the world, and it may not get the kind of love that New York or Chicago do, but there are a ton of reasons to visit this Midwestern hot spot.
We spent a long weekend in Milwaukee this June as mentors at BlogHouse Milwaukee. It was actually our second visit to the city and I found myself falling even more in love with this quirky, fun and genuinely interesting place.
The Beer
There is a reason that Milwaukee is nicknamed Brew City. It's a historical home to many once-major breweries like Schlitz, Pabst, Blatz and Miller. The only one of those left in town is Miller, but there are many new and innovative microbreweries popping up around Wisconsin. Our favorite is Lakefront Brewery, which is based in Milwaukee and has delicious beer. I particularly recommend the Wisconsinite, which is made with all local ingredients. Even if you've taken many brewery tours, the Lakefront tour is well worth your time- it's absolutely hilarious.
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We ate very well in Milwaukee on both of our visits. From high end steak at Dream Dance Steak to lobster rolls at the Milwaukee Public Market, there is a ton of great, locally made and sourced food to try.
Let's not kid ourselves though, the real star of the show is Wisconsin cheese. Spicy habanero cheese, classic cheddar, smooth stout cheese. And of course the cheese curds, which are best served in the classic Milwaukee dish of deep fried cheese curds. We ate quite a few, but my favorite came from the Rumpus Room on Water Street:
The Party Atmosphere
Maybe it's because they spend so much of their year buried under deep snow, but Milwaukee knows how to have a good time. In 2013 we partied it up at Summerfest, the biggest music concert in the world.
This year, we spent much of our time at the Potawatomi Casino, a shiny Indian Casino and a great place to lose some money. We lucked out- went double or nothing on red and walked away with $150!
If casinos aren't really your jam, there were plenty of nice bars around town. I particularly liked Uber Tap Room.
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