In this post from late last year, I said I didn’t think I would ever travel as much as I did in 2019. But when I wrote it, I of course didn’t expect things to fall off a cliff they way they have. I’ve travelled only once this year, in March, for a seminar in […]
Notes from the Road: Seoul 2019
Warning! This post is for seminar aficionados only. It contains minimal cultural insight and nothing on contract drafting. Instead, this post celebrates my 14 November 2019 “Drafting Clearer Contracts” seminar in Seoul. Out of the hundreds of seminars I’ve done over the past 14 years, it was the spiffiest. How so? For one thing, it […]
Notes from the Road: Muscat
My seminar trips aren’t like vacation. They’re not for sightseeing—if I’m not careful, a trip can consist of various forms of transportation, time in a hotel, time in a meeting room, various forms of transportation taking me home, and not a whole lot else. And usually I don’t linger—I’m not big on solo tourism, and […]
Notes from the Road: Rome
I’ve just returned from a whirlwind trip to Rome. Work I was there to do a “Drafting Clearer Contracts” seminar for an Italian company with global operations. A good time was had by all. By some freakish alchemy, my seminars manage to be more engaging than the subject might suggest. Heck, if I’ve found the […]
Notes from the Road: Denmark
Let me tell you about last week’s trip to Denmark—to Aarhus and Copenhagen. Over time, I’ve ended up paying less attention to some elements of my trips. As long as my air travel is uneventful, it’s time to work or sleep, with the occasional bad movie thrown in. Similarly, on this trip I enjoyed the […]
Notes from the Road: Thoughts on Business Travel Prompted by a Trip to Manila
In the past ten years I’ve done seminars in many countries. I haven’t counted them, and it would be juvenile to list them, although I’ve sporadically done “Notes from the Road” posts about my travels (here). I’ve also visited many cities in the United States and Canada that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise. So what […]
Notes from the Road: Saudi Arabia
Last Sunday and Monday I gave back-to-back “Drafting Clearer Contracts” seminars in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The seminars were held at the impressive offices of the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration and were arranged by the Commercial Law Development Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce. My thanks to the SCCA for their gracious hospitality. My thanks […]
Notes from the Road: Kuwait
I’m just back from Kuwait, where I did a “Drafting Clearer Contracts” seminar under the auspices of the Kuwait Commercial Arbitration Center and the Commercial Law Development Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce. I thank the KCAC for their hospitality, and I thank the CLDP for being imaginative enough to think that exposing Kuwaitis to […]
Notes from the Road: Noosa, Queensland, Australia
My “Notes from the Road” posts aren’t intended as simple travelogue; that might be annoying. Instead, I try to tie each post to my contract-drafting-guy activities. It might be tough to pull that off when the destination was the Australian resort town of Noosa, but here goes. After seminars in Sydney and Melbourne, this past weekend […]
Notes from the Road: Finland
I’ve just returned from a visit to Finland that combined work and play. On the one hand, I had a public “Drafting Clearer Contracts” seminar to do. On the other hand, I went with my wife Joanne; we were staying with my brother Charles, who happens to be the U.S. ambassador to Finland; and longtime […]