Federal Judiciary

SRBPS - Marshall Open House - May 1

By Michael Smith

To accommodate the May 1 status conferences in Judges Ward and Everingham's court in Marshall, we'll be having our firm open house on May 1, from whenever we get here to whenever we leave, here at 713 South Washington (the federal courthouse is on the corner of Houston and South Washington - go south from there about half a dozen blocks and we're in front of the hospital), which is on the corner in front of the hospital).  The Marshall Chamber of Commerce has scheduled a ribbon cutting ceremony for noon, and  we'd like to encourage people to please feel free to stop by whenever is convenient during the day to say hello, check out the new digs (and view the artwork of course) and pick up a cookie or two.  I'll be over at the courthouse most of the early morning in status conferences, but will be in after that - if I'm over at the courthouse Pam will be here to say hello.
To celebrate, we're passing out the attached 8 x 4.5 in. cards which contain office contact information, our new office nameplate, and a very nice reproduction of one of Carol Pace's watercolors of the historic Harrison County Courthouse here in Marshall (the original is hanging in our office and is not for sale - it's all mine). I still haven't figured out what to call these - they are essentially business cards on steroids - but I ran across an article last week by Carolyn Elefant on the changing use of business cards (here) and realized that I was doing what she and New Orleans attorney Ernie Svenson are discussing, which is changing the use of business cards from something with your contact information to something that says something about your practice.  Getting contact information via the Internet is easy, so I didn't even bother including a fax number, but instead included a link to this weblog and a nice reproduction of the  recently restored 1901 J. Riely Gordon courthouse that is essentially the front yard of the federal courthouse here in Marshall.  I still have normal business cards, of course.  But these are a lot nicer to look at.  I'll be passing them out later this week at the State Bar Causes of Action seminar in Dallas, which I'm chairing, and at the State Bar Litigation Section Council meeting in Corpus Christi.
So stop by May 1 and say hello.  Grayson and the twins are anxious for people to see the artwork in their play room in back. 

Full post as published by Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice on April 16, 2008 (boomark / email).