Practice Management

Ave Maria School Of Law Retains Its ABA Accrediation

Posted on July 11, 2008
Over the last year or so I think most people, including many prospective law students, could have gotten the wrong impression about Ave Maria School of Law as it heads down from Michigan to joint its namesake town outside of Naples, Florida and its namesake university...

Who Let The Blog Out? Who! Who! Who! -- Northeast Texas Bankruptcy Lawyer

Posted on July 10, 2008
There is a new blog on the block concerning consumer bankruptcy issues in Northeast Texas -- my old stompin' grounds. Welcome J. Brian Allen and his new blow (or blawg) Northeast Texas Bankruptcy Lawyer. You can view it by CLICKING HERE. As you can tell, Brian has a good deal of experience in both this legal and geographic area...

Heath Insurance Is The Bane Of My Existence!!!

Posted on July 10, 2008
I have said it before, health insurance (and insurance in general) is the bane of my existence as a home office practitioner. I have crappy health insurance coverage from a crappy insurance company that charges a ton of money every month so they can elect not to provide me or my family any real services for the money...

Boone Pickens Discusses How To Help Solve The Energy Crises

Posted on July 09, 2008
I am not always a big fan of Boone Pickens, but he does give a compelling argument was to why we need to act now and what we can move to solve the energy crises in this country.

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Bandwidth Metering Looms!

Posted on July 09, 2008
We are in trouble as the big three - Comcast, AT&T and Time-Warner - try to turn the Internet into the equivalent of the cell phone bill system. They want to begin metering bandwidth used by you, and me and the next guy or gal. One of the problems with capitalistic greed is that once anything becomes almost a necessity -- oil, water, electricity -- some bigwig wants to figure out how to use it to suppress advancement, personal freedom, and the economic livelihood of many by trying to contrive a way or means to charge the bejesus out of...

Let Us Be Clear - Network Marketing Should Be A Matter Of Relationship Building

Posted on July 08, 2008
There can be a difference between network marketing and relationship building. The former can become too artificial, too unnatural, less ductile or supple, or too much of a contraption, contrivance or device to be effective. I do not care what you call it, but once the process becomes too methodical, too architectonic, or too tactical it will not work well...

Gas Prices Will Likely Change The Commercial Real Estate Landscape

Posted on July 07, 2008
The selling point in real estate is still - location - location - location! The problem for many is that the definition of the right location is changing as gas prices skyrocket. According to the Dallas Business Journal, companies (and that assumes law firms) will have to re-examine where they set up shop...

Airport = Laptop Trash Can?

Posted on July 07, 2008
Losing a laptop or notebook computer could be disastrous to many attorneys. Yet, we tend to carry them were we go so that we may stay in touch. We dare not check our computers because we want to do some work on the Plane while flying, or at least impress others we do not know with your importance...

Major Destruction In The U.S. - Many Left Homeless, Without Food, Many In Need Of Healthcare

Posted on July 07, 2008
This would be funny if it was not so true.

4 Myths That Keep Attorneys From Building A Referral Based Practice

Posted on July 05, 2008
This is a good video from Stephen Fairley at Top Law Firm Marketing Tips.

Dignity Is Overrated

Posted on July 05, 2008
I run into poor, pitiful lawyers every day. Many contact me asking for advice on how to break free from their poor, pitiful ways. I am always glad to tell them from my experience what has worked for me and what has not. Namely that they have to get out and pound the pavement...

Don't Commute - Compute!

Posted on July 04, 2008
I absolutely hate this fake gas crises in which we are stuck. It is not that we do have a future gas and oil problem, it is just that we do not have one now. That said, this bout with insanity will probably lead us to finally making the decisions that many of us, and many of our employers and courts, find so hard...

On This 4th Of July We Need To Remember Thomas Paine

Posted on July 04, 2008
We pay so much attention to the named founding fathers. This video from American News Project tells us that on this Independence Day we need to look back at the radical influence of Thomas Paine.

Medical Myths

Posted on July 04, 2008
I do not know about you, but sitting at home and avoiding the long commute does allow me to eat better and regulate myself a little better. It also gives me more time to fret about all of this stuff you read concerning health. I find myself following some of it, and feeling guilty about not following the rest...

The Law Accordion to Hanson Bridgett

Posted on July 03, 2008
This is an interesting video promoting the Big Law firm of HansonBridgett. I like it. But, I am just not sure it sells the benefit of Big Law at the end. In fact, at the end of the video is when they leave the free wheeling world outside (you know where smaller, happier, more responsive law firms exist) and enter the stale and expensive and encasing world of Big Law.

Just How Much Of A Change Are Our Change Candidates?

Posted on July 03, 2008
Do you get a letters from your colleagues, which are attached to emails, and think this attorney just does not get the technological advances. You know what I am talking about. They treat email like it is an envelope, but they still insist on dictating out their correspondence, having their secretary type it, then they proof it, have the secretary retype it, print it off on stationary, sign it, somehow scan it, and attach it to an email that says little more than "attached please find ...

Supreme Court Term Has Ended

Posted on July 03, 2008
The term has ended for the United States Supreme Court for this year. We are finally safe for a little while. Well, except that now everybody will be carrying a gun!

Microsoft Buys Powerset

Posted on July 02, 2008
If you cannot build it, buy it. If you cannot get your first choice, move on to your second choice. Neither represents bad advice. In this regard, Microsoft did not manage to snag Yahoo to launch its revival into Web 2.0 or to compete effectively with Google...

Telecoms And Cable Companies Are Going To Be The Death Of Us

Posted on July 01, 2008
My cable high speed Internet access stinks of late. It appears that Comcast has finally started slowing down certain types of content. In return, they have against reduced service and hiked prices higher into the stratosphere. AT&T, for whom I have no love loss, has finally strung fiber optic to my neighborhood, and I can replace my cable with their fiber optic...

British Snobbery?

Posted on June 30, 2008
Either I do not get it, or rich Brits do not get it. I have always found something profoundly humorous even in their serious efforts. Reality is not one of their strong points. Now this is rich. Literally. According to the Daily Mail, Prince Charles has converted his Aston Martin to run on English wine...

Reasons To Go Paperless

Posted on June 30, 2008
Sam Glover over at Solo Small Tech has a good video listing the main reason he has gone paperless and how it has benefited him. I found this video through a link and post provided by Rick Georges at Future Lawyer. Three (four, really) good reasons to go paperless from Sam Glover on Vimeo.

Balance And Fortune Cookie Wisdom

Posted on June 29, 2008
We came home early from the Lake Highland area of the Texas Hill Country because my wife became ill. Not from the area but from some bug she picked up. Having not gone shopping, my youngest daughter, P.J., and I went to get some Chinese food for lunch before we went grocery shopping...

Sticks And Stones Might Break By Bones, But Words Will Never ... (Oops)

Posted on June 29, 2008
Social media I would think has pretty much killed this little saying. Of course words hurt. Some of them can really cut. There are a bunch of words that can really sting. The bottom line is that words matter. Sure, sticks and stones can cause physical pain, but psychological pain ...

How In The Hell Did We Get To This Point - This Is Simply Not A Good Day For The Plaintiff's Bar

Posted on June 28, 2008
Good grief! Dickie Scruggs gets 5 years in prison for trying to bribe a judge. Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, who became one of the wealthiest civil lawsuit attorneys in the country by taking on tobacco, asbestos and insurance companies, was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for conspiring to bribe a judge...

The Good News Of Gas Prices

Posted on June 28, 2008

Everybody Can Take Part In Pretending To Take Part In The Presidential Election

Posted on June 28, 2008
I like The Onion because this has the look and feel, and shallowness, of the morning shows.

Do Not Buy Into The Zapper

Posted on June 27, 2008
I am leaving for the weekend, and so you will not hear much from me. However, I wanted to leave you with this little something. Sometimes we all buy into the new dream zapper when we ought to know better. Leave the expensive stuff alone -- expensive homes, expensive cars, expensive tech, expensive overhead, expensive habits -- and stick with the dream catcher...

"Interesting"

Posted on June 26, 2008
I was speaking with an attorney that I knew scorned my position in a case, or at least had no intellectual interest in my position. Every single time I stated my position or one of my points to her she would respond by saying, "interesting". It really started to chap my ass...

When You Assume You Make An Ass Out Of You And Me

Posted on June 26, 2008
I like stealing material from Tom Kane at Legal Marketing Blog because he is just smarter than me, but I still like to impress. He is better at capsuling a group of thoughts or ideas that are important to remember and implement. He is better at scouring the Internet to bring you what is truly important...

PWSD

Posted on June 25, 2008
I found this on Lifehack. It stands for post-workaholic stress disorder (PWSD). Now I know this is more of a lay person's off take on other mental illnesses, but I do appreciate the point. Most lawyers, I think, call it burnout, when they recognize it...

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