This month’s issue of Law Practice Management (Jan/Feb 2005) contain’s Robert Denney’s annual Trends Report: What’s Hot and What’s Not in the Legal Profession. Topping the list of hot practice areas are employment law, IP and contingency litigation (though not for personal injury, which is cool due to tort reform legislation). Also hot, but less
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What’s Common to Car Dealers, Ad Men and Lawyers?
Car dealers, advertisers and lawyers. Results of a recent survey present these professions as the most unethical and dishonest as perceived by respondents and reported in this article, No Respect, Asbury Park Press (12/27/04). By contrast, more than 70 percent of Americans gave nurses, grade school teachers, pharmacists and military officers high ethical marks.
A Lawyer Calls for Civility
Many of us lawyers grouse about the lack of civility in the legal profession; this article, Maryland Lawyer Makes A Case for Civility reports on Rockville, Maryland attorney Steven Seltzer who’s actually trying to do something about it. In addition to calling lawyers’ on their incivility (for example, Seltzer once wrote a letter to a…
Working from Home – A Viable Choice
Many lawyers resist working from home, worrying primarily about image, as in this article here. But a professional home based office is possible, as demonstrated by Nina Kallen and Lisa Solomon, the two sucessful attorneys profiled in Home Alone, Margaret Graham Tebo, ABA Journal (November 2004).
IF YOU’RE GOING TO FORCE PRO BONO, DON’T MAKE IT EQUITABLE
For various reasons, I do not endorse mandatory pro bono requirements, even as I, personally, have made a point of taking on several pro bono matters each year during my sixteen years of practice. I just don’t think the bar can force attorneys to undertake what is a personal moral obligation. But to the extent…