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I’m heading to Ohio later this week to hit the Ohio State Bar Association Legal Tech Conference. While I’m there, one of the things I’ll be speaking on is web browsers. I’ll be covering some tips and tricks to customize your web browser – it’s amazing what a difference just a few well chosen extensions… Continue Reading

This guy could sell snowblowers to Eskimos. Wait, that’s wrong. Well, he could definitely sell a snowblower to somebody – maybe me. And I live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. That’s one powerful snowblower ad. Such is the power of good writing. For folks whose stock in trade is the written word, lawyers as a… Continue Reading

Another look at conflicts of interest (in this case, scientific ones) and how they sometimes sneak up on us, from psychologist and author Dan Ariely:

  I am getting ready for a presentation I am doing today at the Wake Forest School of Law. I’ll be talking to a group of law students (I presume mostly 3L’s, but I won’t know until tomorrow) about starting a law firm. My talk leads with the topic of “Plan B: the virtue of… Continue Reading

I’m a bit of a bag geek. I really like briefcases, luggage, messenger bags, backpacks, man purses, and all manner of vaguely embarrassing ways to cart my junk around. I even know where to find cool bags on Etsy, which I am pretty sure could get me kicked out of my fantasy football league. I… Continue Reading

Lee Rosen of Divorce Discourse provides food for thought: We start family law practices for a variety of reasons. Some of us do it because we need a job. Some of us do it because we hate our boss. Some of us do it because…

“Law practice is like delivering newspapers: it’s not enough to be good one, or even most days.  You’ve got to be good consistently.” When my wife and I graduated from law school, her first job was as an associate in the litigation department of a large corporate law firm in Boston.  In the early weeks… Continue Reading

I got the opportunity to head up to Pilot Mountain, North Carolina today to meet with some lawyers and talk about the law practice management issues facing solo practitioners and small firm lawyers in rural areas. (The photo was not taken by me, I stupidly forgot my camera, but the mountain was too interesting looking… Continue Reading

Remember Field of Dreams, where Kevin Costner builds a baseball stadium on his Iowa farm to let the ghosts of old baseball players play?  That voice in his head (which I’m sure has plenty of non-supernatural explanations that can be found in the DSM) keeps telling him that if he builds this ballpark, people will… Continue Reading

Today is July 1.  The first half of 2008 is behind us and the second half just begun.  It’s a great opportunity to review your goals for 2008 and see how you’re doing.  Are you making good progress or have your goals been long ago discarded and forgotten like so many New Year Resolutions? I’m… Continue Reading

Let me start by saying that I am as big a fan of digital communication as anyone.  Email, instant messenger, SMS text messages — I like it all.  It’s good to have options. That said, I know a lot of lawyers out there struggle with digital overload, particularly in their email in-boxes.  (As an aside,… Continue Reading

That famous bromide is often quoted by marketing and publicity-minded folks.  (Notably, they frequently leave off the end of that quote from Irish author Brendan Behan, who said “there is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.”)  It’s probably cheerier without that addendum. The point is a good one, though, and important… Continue Reading