Practice Management

Referral Motivation

Posted on June 25, 2008
John Jantsch at Duct Tape Marketing has a great post on what is the perfect referral motivation. Although his post speaks to a market larger than the practice of law, I have found what he states to be particular true as to referral or network marketing in the practice of law...

Should You Gain Law Firm Experience Before You Go To Law School?

Posted on June 24, 2008
It is an interesting question, and it is one that Lisa Solomom shared with an student with whom she was communicating. She shared it with me. I would like to share my preliminary thoughts with you. I really did not have much knowledge of how a law firm operated or how law was actually practice before I went to law school...

Homes. Offices. Home Offices.

Posted on June 24, 2008
Nothing merges the concept of life and work like your home. It is the essence of work-life balance or blending. That is one of the primary reasons that both my wife and I have decided to work out of our home. After all, we are already paying for our home...

Barkley School Of Law

Posted on June 24, 2008
I have to think what a mess. In 2004 Dean Paul Hendrick, the founding dean of Florida Coastal School of Law, really the first of the really successful for-profit law schools founded American Justice School of Law in Paducah, Kentucky of all places. The law school was suppose to be different because it was to require law students to work in one of its law clinics and take practice skills courses before they were allowed to graduate...

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Building A Personal Injury Practice

Posted on June 23, 2008
Ronald V. Miller, Jr. (for some reason lawyers better than I have to have a middle initial) has a very good post on The Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog on how to build a personal injury law practice based upon lawyer referrals. It is a great resource that demonstrates what I and others, and now Ronald V...

Dead Dead Dailies!

Posted on June 23, 2008
With the growth of the Internet, and especially broadband, blogs and social media of all sorts, most newspapers are in their death throes. The good old days of charging lawyers and others by the column inch at levels that would make big city real estate developers jealous are simply gone...

YouTube Reaches Out For More

Posted on June 23, 2008
If Microsoft represents Web 0.0, and poor old Yahoo represents Web 1.0, then Google and YouTube certainly represent Web 2.0, or at least the beginning of that revolution or the foundation on which it is based. And, in its wake it has royally ticked off all of those people that want to charge money and subscription fees for tech and information...

Virtual Appointments

Posted on June 23, 2008
They are coming. It is only a matter of time. The Houston Business Journal recently published an article on MDWebLive. It is a rich content website as to conditions and symptoms. But, it allows you to visit with your medical doctor over the web live, to ask questions and to get a consultation...

Remembering George Carlin

Posted on June 23, 2008
Comedian George Carlin, best known for his scabrous, unflinching style and his rivetingly observant social satire, died of heart failure at 71 years old. Below are a couple of his best routines on language and stuff.

Breaking News - Most Children Not In Favor Of Child Healthcare

Posted on June 23, 2008

Do We Need New Law Schools?

Posted on June 22, 2008
Do we need new law schools in this country? If so, where should these law schools be located? How will a new law school differentiate itself from all of the others, or be beneficial to students where other law schools succeed? I recently posted about the new law school at University of California - Irvine, so I obviously believe there is a need for new innovative law schools in some places of this country...

F. Lee Bailey - Legal Talk Network

Posted on June 22, 2008
I finally had a chance today to sit down and listen to the podcasts with F. Lee Bailey on the Legal Talk Network, and I found then to be very good. They are worth a listen.

University of California - Irving - Donald Bren School Of Law

Posted on June 22, 2008
It is always interesting and intriguing to see a major state university opening a new law school. First, what are the chances that the law school will not receive ABA accreditation? Little I think. Second, a public law school ultimately provides access to a cheaper quality law school education for many...

Ways To Cope With $5 A Gallon Gasoline?

Posted on June 22, 2008
I was reading a post by Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent, which was entitled 5 Ways To Cope With A $5 Gallon. You can read it yourself. They were trying, I guess, to be helpful, but how exactly do you deal with the traders and hedge funds of the World ripping you off so badly, and impoverishing you and your family, with $5 gasoline prices? I found their solution, however, a bit lame...

I Am Not Sure I Am Really Linked In To Linkedin

Posted on June 21, 2008
You know when the Internet bubble was growing (before the burst) there were so many companies raising money and expanding that I could not figure out how their market strategy made sense (or money). But, I thought, what did I know? Investment bankers and Yahoo were throwing fortunes at these companies even though they were not making money, they were eating through cash, and there really did not seem to be a way for them to make money...

The Icahn Report

Posted on June 19, 2008
Famed corporate raider, private equity investor and multi-billionaire, Carl Icahn, has finally started blogging. Welcome to The Icahn Report. And, if any of you guys and gals out there are thinking about ripping off Carl's title, do not even think about it...

Ralph Nader On Seseme Street 1988

Posted on June 19, 2008

How To Nap

Posted on June 19, 2008
I have always said that napping is one of the possibilities that makes the home office just wonderful. Even if you never take a nap, you know that you can do so without anybody being the wiser. The Boston Globe has a very interesting and detailed graphic on exactly how and when to take a nap...

9th Circuit Court Of Appeals Upholds Privacy Of Text Messages

Posted on June 18, 2008
I guess I can sleep a little easier knowing that my devious criminal acts cannot be discovered just because I bothered to text about what I did or am about to do. All joking aside, this issue of privacy in the Third Wave is very important regardless of how one interprets one's rights in relation to their conduct...

Listening To Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye

Posted on June 18, 2008

Less Brawn, More Brains

Posted on June 18, 2008
The reason the Third Wave works now, where it did not work well in, let us say, the 80s is that we are finally completing the arduous, hurtful and mournful task of transforming from a brawn based society to a brains based society. We can see this still in what they call the innovation sector which constantly complains about a lack of "skilled workers"...

And, This Does Describe The Problem With Cell Phones

Posted on June 18, 2008

Unfortunately, This Might Describe Most Of Us

Posted on June 18, 2008
At least there is some truth to what is says.

The Falling Economy Roundup

Posted on June 17, 2008
A falling economy is not necessarily bad for the practice of law. There is nothing like fights over money to spur disagreements and force companies and individuals into divorce and bankruptcy and lawsuits (or even arbitration). Then there are those that are trying to correct the problem, such as some alternative energy companies, that have to force through approval for their plans...

The Bottom Line - Most Law Firm Websites Stink

Posted on June 17, 2008
I just found this report by The Bloom Group concerning the effectiveness of professional services websites, including those of law firms. It is a couple of years old, but do those of us that look at a lot of lawyer websites need a study to confirm that most of these sites are simply ineffective? The Bloom study found law firms rate prospective clients as their most important audience for websites, which should be true...

Too Little, Too Lame

Posted on June 17, 2008
Marketing includes advertising and all other forms of marketing, such a referral base marketing, but lawyers have a bad habit of doing too little marketing and doing it in a way that is often lame. My advice, having done most all of it, is simply to develop a competent plan that avoids tricks and fanfare and which avoids diminishing markets such as yellow pages...

Put The Kibosh On Junk Snail Mail

Posted on June 16, 2008
Well, even if you cannot stop it completely, you can probably reduce the amount of junk mail you receive through the USPS USPS every day. How much is that? If it is anything like the mail I receive, it is the overwhelming majority of the snail mail that I receive...

Loopholes

Posted on June 16, 2008
You have got to love father's day humor, and what is essentially lawyer humor. Put them both together, and it is just great.

Blogs vs. Email

Posted on June 16, 2008
I get between 100 and 200 emails a day. In the past I would have thought that would have been a problem. Although I have to admit that some days it keeps me on a treadmill of responding, I find it so much better than using the phone or switching between various media...

Some Unusual Cost Savings As A Result Of Working At Home

Posted on June 15, 2008
Times are getting tough. Part of it is that prices are just going up, but a lot of it is nothing more than our extravagances coming back to roost. Often when we talk about moving our law offices home we speak in terms of large savings such as the cost of a separate office, staff, and cutting the costs of commuting...

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