Practice Management

The Mixed Martial Arts Law Niche

Posted on October 24, 2009
The people at LexBlog have a right to be proud of and highlight David Nelmark. They blogged about his blog Mixed Martial Arts Law Blog. After all, LexBlog designed and set up the blog for David Nelmark and his law firm, Belin McCormick. Now, I do not have to be enthused by David Nelmark's Mixed Martial Arts Law Blog and his practice niche...

Eliane Elias-Call Me

Posted on October 22, 2009
Briefing to meet a deadline today at the Worldwide Home Office. Need some calming music. So, listening to Eliane Elias.

Forget The Herd

Posted on October 21, 2009
I have receive a good many communications lately asking how a lawyer might get heard above the herd? It is an interesting question really, and I understand why it is concerning for those wanting to enter the practice of law on their own. After all, the law market, like all other markets, are crowded, and it can be a challenge getting heard in and among the crowd...

The New ABA Approved Law Schools Since 2004

Posted on October 18, 2009
There are a number of new law schools in the works, but otherwise 2009 has yet to yield any new ABA approved law schools. ABA accreditation is important to a law school because this generally means the law schools graduates is eligible to take the bar exam in all jurisdictions in the United States...

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The Bootless Bar

Posted on October 16, 2009
One of my favorite legal commentators, even if he does gnaw at me once in a while, is Robert J. Ambrogi. He is a Massachusetts lawyer, writer and media consultant. He writes the blogs LawSites and Media Law, co-writes Legal Blog Watch and co-hosts the legal affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer...

What Is Your Personal Brand?

Posted on October 16, 2009
Martha M. Newman is a lawyer coach, CLE presenter for the State Bar of Texas and Vice President of the Women Lawyers Section in her bar association. She is the founder of Gain Your Goals, Inc. and publisher of Top Lawyer Coach, a website that focuses on building lawyer's rainmaking, practice management, and leadership skills...

IRS Issues 2010 Tax Rates

Posted on October 16, 2009
Because it matters greatly to solo practitioners, you need to know that the IRS has issued the new tax rates and calculations for 2010. Most remain unchanged, but by law the dollar amount for various tax provisions are adjusted for inflation. You can find a copy of the new provisions by CLICKING HERE...

The University Of Massachusetts Wants A Law School

Posted on October 15, 2009
It is funny really. The great liberal State of Massachusetts does not want a public option when it comes to a legal education in the state. You see, Massachusetts is law school rich, but not one of its ABA or non-ABA law schools are public institutions...

Some Of My Favorite Really Bad TV Commercials

Posted on October 15, 2009

Savvy Networking: For Lawyers Who Hate The Thought

Posted on October 14, 2009
Martha M. Newman is a lawyer coach, CLE presenter for the State Bar of Texas and Vice President of the Women Lawyers Section in her bar association. She is the founder of Gain Your Goals, Inc. and publisher of Top Lawyer Coach, a website that focuses on building lawyer's rainmaking, practice management, and leadership skills...

Lighting Up Your Home Office

Posted on October 11, 2009
It is getting to be that time of year again. It is getting darker earlier and for a longer period of time. And, this makes me think of the lighting in most law offices, especially home law offices. When establishing my home office, this was a major thing for me...

The Belmont Stakes

Posted on October 10, 2009
I am speaking of course about Belmont University and the new College of Law it is planning to open in the fall of 2011. The stakes could not be higher for the University or for the State of Tennessee. Belmont University is a private liberal arts university located in Nashville, Tennessee...

Solo Business Entities Are Just "Superfluous Window Dressing"

Posted on October 09, 2009
Anybody that has read this blog for any length of time knows how I feel about solo attorneys, or attorneys that can nonetheless operate as solos in a group environment, forming and operating as corporate-like entities. I think it generally represents silliness that is more costly than it is good...

When The Face Sues The Butt It Is All A Bit Too Much

Posted on October 06, 2009
Sometimes it is hard to understand why lawyers and big companies have a bad image generally -- until you read things like this. Cannot anybody take a joke? Since when is a parody, no matter how much you resent it, not protected speech? I always heard it was the greatest form of flattery...

It Might Be Time To Move

Posted on October 06, 2009
Let us face facts. Most law student, many new lawyers, and some establish attorneys are renting apartments. I know of attorneys that are also trying to practice out of their apartments. If that is true for you, then although the economic downturn can be a bad thing generally, it might offer you some relief in regard to rent and amenities...

Is There Something Hinky About Your Law Practice?

Posted on October 06, 2009
Hinky? It is a word used to describe when something is indefinably wrong, out of place of just not quite right. It does I think describe most law practices, does it not? You report to work each day, do your best, and try to find that right balance between work and life...

University Of Akron School Of Law

Posted on October 05, 2009
I know that Akron, Ohio might not be the most romantic city in the world. After all, one of its claims to fame is that it was here that Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1935. It is referred to as "Rubber City" and "Tire City" for the automobile tire plants located there...

Rebooting Your Law Practice

Posted on October 04, 2009
I am not talking so much about leaving your practice and then finding out later that you have to come back to it. You see this a lot with lawyers who move into other law practices or leave their law practices for paycheck-type jobs that do not work out for one reason or the other...

(Video) Social Media - Are You Up To It?

Posted on October 01, 2009
I have to admit it. I have been slow to social media. No so much in failing to use it, but in failing to use it effectively, across the spectrum, to not so much promote (although I guess you can call it that), but to display my business and my cause and my law firm...

The Water Law Niche

Posted on September 30, 2009
When you think about it, water is the vital ingredient for all living things on this planet. Therefore, it makes sense that it is something that is going to fought over and legislated. Where there is conflict and where there is regulation, there are attorneys because they are necessary...

To Build Or Establish A Law Practice, Just Begin

Posted on September 30, 2009
As for myself, I have in the past been amazingly accomplished in exploring and developing law practices, and I have been equally dilatory to the point of not getting anything done - ever - in the same regard. It is a shame really, and you need to strive not to let the latter happen to you...

(Video) Microsoft's Courier

Posted on September 30, 2009
Courier User Interface from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

No-Motion / Home-Motion

Posted on September 27, 2009
Lawyers, probably more than anybody, suffer from no-motion. That is when at a law firm provides you, or as an associate you technically get, a promotion but no increase in salary or bonus. The law firm adds responsibilities, duties or more cases to tge attorney's current roster, but the 'monetary compensation does not keep up with it...

Big Law, Big Law School, Big Bummer!

Posted on September 26, 2009
Do not take my word for it. Check out the article on American Lawyer entitled Not That Into You. It reports on a study entitled After the JD, which tracked 5000 lawyers who began practicing in 2000. In short, what is life like eight or nine years out of graduating from law school? How well were these lawyers expectations of the future met? The results, to some, might be amazing...

Stevie Wonder ~ Superstition

Posted on September 26, 2009
It is a bright Saturday at the Worldwide Home Office, and Stevie Wonder is playing on Pandora.

New York Law School - An Example Of When Law Schools Play With Debt

Posted on September 24, 2009
I went to South Texas College of Law. Not the most prestigious law school in the World, I guess, but when I attended it had one trait that you had to appreciate. STCL would not build anything, add anything, or pay for anything if it did not have the cash...

"Show Me The Note" Defense

Posted on September 22, 2009
There is one thing that the law requires in almost any real estate action, at least in those states or in bankruptcy court, where there is a judicial action concerning foreclosure. That is the requirement to produce the actual real estate note, or at least a reasonable copy of it...

Most Attorneys And Law Firms Have A Website But They Are Not Really Online

Posted on September 21, 2009
I like Duct Tape Marketing And John Jantsch, and he has reminded me about a concern I have about the web presence of most attorneys and law firms. Almost every lawyer I run into these days has a website either for themselves or their law firm, and they think that represents an online law practice...

How To Fire Your Receptionist

Posted on September 20, 2009
I guess I should feel bad about advocating the elimination of jobs, especially the lower level jobs in this World. After all, it cannot be helpful to the job market if most law firms, traditional and non-traditional, eliminated their receptionist. But, the truth of the matter is the good old receptionist is about outdated as the buggy whip...

The Community Association Law Niche

Posted on September 19, 2009
Home is where the heart is. It is, according to most statistics, a families biggest investment and largest debt. In short, the home brings to the surface both extreme emotion and money issues. The home as a private place has been instilled in all of us from the drafting of the Constitution down...

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