Thirty-five year old sprinter Allyson Felix is the most decorated Olympian in track and field history. Yet even Felix couldn’t outrun discrimination by her former sponsor Nike — which pressured her to return to form as soon as possible after a high-risk pregnancy and birth while slashing her pay to 70 percent of what she’d
Last month with the country reopening post-pandemic, on the eve of my 57th birthday, I embarked on a bucket-list trip to the Dakotas with Wyoming and Montana tossed in because why not? Compared to the East Coast where I reside, the west is more immense in every respect: big, endless sky, wide-open roads and days
As the saying goes in real estate, house value is all about location, location, location.
To paraphrase from Legal Zoom’s recent IPO filing, legal services value is all about subscription, subscription, subscription. Driving that point home, Legal Zoom’s IPO filing uses the term subscription 275 times and discloses that fees from subscriptions account for
For many law students, the summer of 2021 has proved challenging. With the pandemic grip still tight back in the fall of 2020, many firms cut back or cancelled summer programs entirely to avoid another awkward summer of remote work. Meanwhile, as placement offices failed to get their act together when law schools opened virtually,
By 2021, most law firms universally accept credit card payments from client with the blessing of regulators. Nevermind that lawyers lagged behind other small businesses and other professionals, and that regulators had to be pulled along kicking and screaming, but we lawyers are well accustomed to the wheels of justice grinding slowly after all.
Yet
Have you ever thought about how much money you’ve lost by not having the right contract in place?
For example:
Last week, the New York Times reported on a recent study by WalletHub which ranked each state on its suitability for remote work. The survey evaluated two primary factors: employer-friendly characteristics such as the number of people already working remotely and worker-specific features such as cost of electricity and Internet and average housing and lot
Just a quick note to let readers know that the Legal ClauseIt chock full of plug & play power pacts for 21st century lawyers will be available for purchase next week. If you haven’t yet signed up to receive advance notice of our special launch deal, sign up here – and in exchange, you can
After the law firm where I worked as an associate twenty five years ago gave me six months to find a new job, I had a crazy idea.
What if I didn’t look for a job at all and instead decided to start my own law firm?
And even crazier, what if that law firm
Lawyers have reasonable discretion over what terms to include in a Retainer Agreement depending upon the type of case and applicable ethics rules. That said, there are some hard don’ts – i.e., terms that you never want to include or exclude – if you want to avoid a bar complaint or non-payment.
Here’s a