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Work Left Undone Means Profit Left Unearned

Posted on January 15, 2009
I am preparing for a presentation through CCM where my partner Brian and I are doing a presentation on implementing a virtual worker program in your law firm. This has got me thinking a lot about virtual workers (not that...

Regurgitation Thursday: Re-Defining Legal Value

Posted on January 15, 2009
Topics covered in this episode of GAL Radio: Alternative billing and delivering value to clients The benefits of value-based billing CIRCA December 28, 2004: Re-Defining Legal ValueThe question presented is can lawyers provide legal value to clients in fewer hours...

An Explosion of Talent: And It?s Available Right Now!

Posted on January 15, 2009
Small and medium sized firms always hire just as needed. Not only are Large law firms not hiring, they?re actually laying off attorneys and downsizing. That means that there is a lot of legal talent, both young and old on...

Is A Big Salary Worth Working Conditions That Make You Miserable

Posted on January 14, 2009
I?ve only been screwed by the internet once. For those of you who have been around for a long time, you will remember that Jenny worked with me at my prior law firm and jumped ship with me when I...

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34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog

Posted on January 14, 2009
For those of us that enjoy blogging to inform others on certain topics, here is an interesting article posted by Darren Rowse on ProBlogger.net that should be reviewed by all of us that blog: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/03/01/34-reasons-why-readers-unsubscribe-from-your-blog/...

Introducing Over The Hump (OTH) Wednesdays: Sponsored By OverflowLegal.com

Posted on January 14, 2009
That?s right! Another new feature on The Greatest American Lawyer Blog. Starting next Wednesday, Overflowlegal.com will be sponsoring ?Over The Hump Wednesday.? What is Overflow Legal? Well, the press release hasn?t gone out quite yet, but it?s a project that...

Top Ten Tuesday: My Best Blogging Tips For Building A Loyal Readership

Posted on January 13, 2009
Recently, I wrote a post titled ?The Lessons of Format and Familiarity How To Take Your Blog To The Next Level and Build a Strong Reader Base? which discussed how to improve your blog by creating a more familiar format...

ISO Monday: Are you drowning in email, RSS feeds & Twitter Feeds?

Posted on January 12, 2009
Welcome to this Monday's edition of "Information Super Overload". Last week, we asked: "Information Super-Overload: Is information overload killing productivity?" So when is too much information too much to handle? The answer is- and it might surprise you - never...

Blawg Review 194

Posted on January 12, 2009
Read this week's Blawg Review # 194 - A Phoenix Rising, hosted by Susan Cartier Liebel over at the Build A Solo Practice blog.

The Lessons of Format and Familiarity How To Take Your Blog To The Next Level and Build a Strong Reader Base

Posted on January 09, 2009
There are a few things that I have learned over the last four years and 1500+ blog posts. In retrospect, it surprises me that it took as long as it did for me to figure out the blogging thing. One...

California Bar Journal Article ?Will A Bad Economy Force More Changes In The Profession??

Posted on January 08, 2009
Thanks to Adrianos Facchetti over at the California Defamation Law Blog for sending me this interesting article from the California Bar Journal. Staff Writer Diane Curtis asked the question which many law bloggers are discussing. How will the current economic...

Top Ten Things I Expect To See In 2009.

Posted on January 06, 2009
The continued explosion of the use of Twitter by attorneys in order to accumulate their feed content from their blogs. A faster pace for law firm innovation driven by the economic downturn and hyper-competitiveness of the legal market. The first...

Information Super-Overload: Is information overload killing productivity?

Posted on January 05, 2009
Welcome to a new series of Monday posts for the GAL blog called "Information Super-Overload" ("ISO Monday"). Every Monday we will discuss the increased problems of 'too much information" and strategies for dealing with the increased distraction of RSS feeds, twitter updates, Facebook friend requests, blog posts, email and other information tools...

The Irony Of Google Adwords

Posted on January 02, 2009
There was a recent comment on my blog noting that the Google Advertisements which show up in my right sidebar are heavily weighted towards law office billing software. Because I am constantly blogging about alternative billing systems, Google takes note...

Law Firm With $2 Billon in Annual Revenue Takes Unprecedented Step To Cap Associate Pay

Posted on January 01, 2009
And yet another sure sign that the rules of the game have changed for the big law firms that have dominated the legal landscape over the past decades, Latham & Watkins has now capped associate salaries in 2009. That means...

Regurgitation Thursday: How to Quit Your Law Firm

Posted on January 01, 2009
Topics covered in this episode of GAL Radio:How to quit your law firm. You don't need your firm as much as you think you do.. You don't need to sneak out the back door with files and clients. What would...

If Your Bonus Is Cut In Half This Year, What Will Happen When the Economy Really Takes a Hit Next Year?

Posted on December 31, 2008
Here is a recent article by Julie Triedman of The Am Law Daily blog titled "Following Pack, Davis Polk To Halve Bonuses". Julie reports that more and more Am Law 100 firms are reducing yearly bonuses in order to cut...

Using Mind Map For Advocacy

Posted on December 30, 2008
For those of you who have been following along, you know I?m a big fan of the Mindjet MindManager software. Here is an interesting post from the Settlement Perspectives Blog titled Get To The Point, And Get It Across, With...

Using Litigation as Economic Leverage over Your Adversary

Posted on December 29, 2008
The idea of using litigation as economic leverage is as old as the court system itself. The idea has been perfected under the American system of justice. Blogs such as Overlawyered chronicle the excesses of litigation, primarily focused on personal...

Blawg Review # 192: A Look Back At 2008 In The Legal Blogosphere

Posted on December 29, 2008
This week?s Blawg Review looks back at the 51 Blawg Review issues of 2008 and asks that everyone cast their vote for naming this year?s "Blawg Review of the Year 2008". Here are the rules: The RulesAny of the issues...

Follow GAL on Twitter.

Posted on December 29, 2008
I?ve begun to use Twitter more aggressively and now include my Greatest American Lawyer feed there as well. Follow me on Twitter by clicking here.

How to Reclaim Your Professional and Personal Life as a Lawyer

Posted on December 28, 2008
Let?s face it. There are certain professions which don?t lend themselves to obtaining certain goals. Sure, you can make a lot of money billing by the hour as a lawyer. But what about other priorities which somehow fade into the...

The Best Thing about Value Billing?and There Are A Lot of Good Things

Posted on December 27, 2008
The best thing about value billing, hands down, is not what you might expect. Sure, not having to keep a timesheet is pretty awesome. The fact that you can talk to your clients on the phone without that uneasy feeling...

Where Is The Line Between Letting Things Happen and Making Things Happen?

Posted on December 25, 2008
There was a stretch of my life where I actively studied eastern religions, especially Buddhism. Buddhist have an amazing way of simply accepting anything and everything that may be happening around them. When life is an illusion, it is really...

Social and Professional Networking Are All About Participation, Not Association

Posted on December 24, 2008
There is a lot of discussion these days about the social networking aspect of the web, from Facebook to LinkedIn. Bloggers post posts and have blog rolls. People join bulletin boards and forums, and post comments on other people?s websites....

Hourly Billing Rate of $1,260 Tops National Survey

Posted on December 23, 2008
Many of you may be surprised that I have no problem with the hourly rate that lawyers think their time might be worth. I do have a problem with billing by the hour. The distinction is as follows. I admit...

Blawg Review # 191

Posted on December 22, 2008
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Why I Love Hourly Billing!

Posted on December 22, 2008
OK. So the title of this post brought you in. You couldn?t resist. How can GAL love hourly billing? The answer is pretty simple and straightforward. Our competitors who bill by the hour regularly piss off their clients so much,...div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds...

The Best Things in Life Really Are Free: A Thumbs Down To Copernic Desktop Search for Pay Version

Posted on December 18, 2008
Those of you who have been around for a while know that one of my favorite software products of all time has been Copernic Desktop Search. Two years ago, I downloaded the free desktop and network search tool which essentially...

Regurgitation Thursday: Who is The Greatest American Lawyer?

Posted on December 18, 2008
Topics covered in this episode of GAL Radio: Practicing towards an ideal rather than a minimum number of billable hours. Clients could use a super hero to protect them from their own lawyers. How to tell when someone you know...

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