This week in unusual litigation (R v. I update)
“R v. I” is just my shorthand for Rakofsky v. the Internet, in case you were wondering. As I’ve said before, others have addressed this case with much greater wisdom than I, but a few notable events...
View ArticleWishful thinking doesn’t build a law practice
My friend Debra Bruce (a/k/a the Lawyer Coach) has an article at Law.com: “From Associate to Solo — Don’t Overestimate Your Value.” She discusses how young lawyers tend to overlook many of the...
View ArticleWhy I’m at a family law CLE
This week I am at the Advanced Family Law CLE seminar in San Antonio. Some may be tempted to ask “Why?”, which is a good question. As I sit here with about 500 other lawyers, I ponder my decision to...
View ArticleBad lawyers! Bad!
This is an old story, but it just caught my eye: Two lawyers who used a pit bull logo and displayed the phone number 1-800 PIT BULL in their television ad have been disciplined by the Supreme Court for...
View ArticleSolo lawyers are not prostitutes
The title of this post may be offensive to some. Especially to prostitutes. I got the idea from a post from The People’s Therapist, in which he compares practicing law at a big law firm to doing sex...
View ArticleToo many lawyers?
Are there too many lawyers in America? You would certainly get that impression from blogs like Overlawyered. It is by now widely known that there are more new lawyers graduating law school than there...
View ArticleRisk-aversion and the coming generational clash amongst lawyers
The other day a young attorney named Rachel Rodgers wrote a post at Solo Practice University called “Ethics Should Not Be Used as a Weapon Against Young Lawyers.” The post outlines a bit of the tension...
View ArticleLawyers as problem solvers
Attorney Mark Baer was recently interviewed by the Pasadena Star-News about the role of lawyers: “Law schools train attorneys to spot problems but not how to solve them,” Baer said. “By teaching...
View ArticleCan contract lawyers practice ethically?
A malpractice suit filed earlier this summer by JM Eagle alleges that McDermott Will & Emery failed to adequately supervise the contract attorneys they retained to do document review, leading to...
View ArticleGrandpa lawyer doesn’t understand your newfangled technoggoly
I wrote the headline to this post on August 17, 2011, and I saved a draft that only consisted of four URL’s. Honestly, I have no idea exactly where I was going to go with this, but the headline was...
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