To paraphrase an old Yiddush saying, men and women plan, pandemic laughs.
Take a look at some of completely unexpected winners…and losers recently anointed by the pandemic:
A couple of months before the pandemic hit, tidy-up evangelist Marie Kondo released a new book, Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life , which applies Kondo’s decluttering principles to the workplace context. As this article describes, Kondo advises readers to decide what to keep and what to cull by asking themselves a particular object
In one fell swoop, COVID-19 put an end to salad bars, hot-food buffets and other types of self-serve operations that have become popularized in takeout restaurants and grocery stores over the past decade. And even as establishments reopen, self-serve buffets may be thing of the past because it’s nearly impossible to control the spread of
Have you ever considered a new practice area or business model for your law firm but weren’t sure whether it had legs? If you’re looking for a quick way to figure out the NBT, you might try the “rule of three” – which is how Chris Wilson, founder of Lululemon knew that a company
As we roll into the second month of pandemic, many of us are slowly realizing that the crazy ad hoc schedules — with Parent No. 1 working 6 am through 10 am, then homeschooling junior while Parent No. 2 works, then swap at noon and so on — that we once viewed as stop gap
As we start on Week Number 4 of the pandemic lockdown, everyone is growing restless and nervous. For many solo and small firm lawyers, the reality of at least another month’s worth of case postponements and reduced intake has settled in. Meanwhile, if my personal email box is any indication, vendors, marketers and coaches galore
By now, most lawyers are well-acquainted with Zoom, which has quickly emerged as a lifeline for lawyers attempting to re-establish a semblance of their former IRL online. As with any other marketing tools – whether Yellow Pages from days of yore to the web and social media, Zoom is just a medium for conveying
This past Monday, I showed up bright and early at the United
States Supreme Court hoping for a seat to view the argument in this
case where my clients filed an amicus
brief . Knowing that I would have considerable wait time, I tried to
come up with ideas on how to spend it productively.
Though I’ve never been much of a sports fan, football least
of all, I feel compelled to turn on the Superbowl (if not watch it) just so
that I can participate in Monday morning conversations. For that reason, I am
probably the last person on earth to have learned about Katie
Sowers, an assistant
With a late Thanksgiving, it’s hard to believe that we’re
already two days into December – and just three weeks away from the start of
holidays. So if you were planning on ordering and sending out personalized
holiday cards, time is growing short. And believe it or not, that’s
actually a good thing.
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