Just a short two months ago, I was a virtual venue virgin. What I mean is that despite the world moving online in the wake of the pandemic, I had yet to attend an event remotely. As someone who has always enjoyed conferences as much for the IRL connection as for the content, I wondered
As the saying goes, numbers don’t lie. But numbers don’t always count either.
Here’s what I mean. We know that the numbers tell us that millions of Americans can’t find the legal help they need, a shortfall that has been exacerbated by the pandemic. We know that the numbers tell us that discriminatory police
Tonight, at sundown, the Jewish holiday of Passover begins. Many of my Jewish friends and colleagues have opted to skip the Passover rituals this year, finding a virtual seder and all the other rigamarole too overwhelming in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. But Passover this year brings me comfort and hope because just as
Decades ago, I attended a lecture series at the National Institute of Health down the street from my house, where the now ubiquitous Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease was one of the speakers. Truth be told, I hardly remember the topic of Fauci’s talk, nor could
As law firm owners and entrepreneurs, all of us are living
under a cloud of unprecedented uncertainty and financial hardship. It’s
stressful and scary and if you were to claim otherwise, I’d question your
sanity.
In the days and months to come, there will be time — plenty
of it — to reposition your firm,
Since time immemorial, law practice management advisors and
business consultants and coaching programs have drummed into law firm owners’
heads the importance of valuing our services. Capturing every last little
second of billable time for phone calls and emails by invoicing early and often
and accepting electronic payments. Walking the fine line between putting
clients
Back when I started my law firm as a green twenty-something
five years out of law school, I invited a partner to lunch who worked at a law
firm where I’d coveted a job. Of course, when I was out pounding the pavement
for work just a few months before, I’d never have had the
Five years ago, life irrevocably changed when I learned that
my beloved
husband was diagnosed with brain
cancer. In the few seconds that it took the doctor to convey the news, my
optimistic plans for my empty-nest future with my husband — working on
law-tech projects together (there wasn’t a computer language that my husband
Every day, there’s one article or another about big problems with the legal profession. Depression is rampant and young lawyers are stressed. Access to justice remains a problem – one that’s heightened in rural areas where clients must often travel hundreds of miles to meet a lawyer. And students still graduate from law school
