Next week, I’ll be speaking about the starting a law firm option at Georgetown Law School here in Washington D.C. This is my fourth law school presentation this year. Yet the more I improve on, and deliver this talk, the more I wonder myself: how can we prepare students for a life in the law
2011
Law Firm Wants Fans Badly Enough to Violate Facebook Rules
Don’t get me wrong, I love creative law firm marketing ideas – so much so, that I’ve collected a couple here and here. But I’m not amused when marketing initiatives violate rules – even when those rules seem stupid – because it suggests that the law firm didn’t engage in due diligence.
Consider the…
MyShingle Fashion: A Suiting Look That Goes Both Ways
It’s no secret by now that I’m a big fan of comfortable outfits. Even when I’m wearing a monkey suit, I’m always trying to make it somehow comfortable for me. For example, I don’t wear heels that are too high – or I wear a suit with pants that have been hemmed for flats, if…
The Future of Law from the NYSBA
I was pleasantly surprised to read the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA)Task Force Report on The Future of Law. For starters, the report characterized solo and small firm lawyers very even-handedly; pointing out the ways in which solos have leveraged technology to their advantage. From the report:
Solo and small firm practitioners are…
UPDATE: Can You Spell I Went Overboard? Try I-L-T-S-O
Update [May 3, 2011 – I’ve made a few more cuts to the post]
Update [April 17, 2011]: Last Friday, I posted the entry below, which was critical of the newly formed International Legal Technical Standards Organization and its proposed tech standards. There, I argued that the proposed standards as overkill, and the entire effort…
Where Have All the Lawyers Gone?
Perhaps the most surprising piece news from last night’s Ignite Law was Jay Shepherd’s announcement that he’s shutting down his firm to focus full time on his business, Prefix LLC which teaches lawyers how to price knowledge. The next day, another colleague revealed that he too will leave his practice to focus on another venture…
Don’t Poach on Me
Earlier this week, I dropped a few hundred dollars to attend one day of an industry conference. I didn’t do it for the CLE. Rather, I had to guard against other lawyers poaching my client. Even with my oversight, at least one consultant made an overt, brazen play for my client as I stood by.…
From tiny ethics mishaps, do major missteps grow?
Back in March, I pondered whether there might be a correlation between cutting little ethics corners on seemingly insignificant matters like advertising and committing major ethics breaches like pilfering from trust accounts or prejudicing a criminal defendant’s rights on the other. I actually hoped that my observation was wrong – after all, if a slip-up…
Solos Take on the World!
If you think that global practice is the exclusive domain of behemoth law firms, think again. These days, there’s more opportunities for solos to go global than ever before, as I write in my piece, at The Xemplar, entitledA Whole New World for Solos that begins like this:
While many large, national U.S.…
MyShingle Fashion: When Black Dresses Get A Little Boring…
I’m with you ladies – I love a little black dress. (A little black work-appropriate dress; it’s not like I’m recommending you wear your cocktail dresses to the office.) Black dresses are incredibly versatile and can be worn any different number of ways, and if you’ve got a couple that are knee-length, possibly with sleeves…