What do you do when a great opportunity comes along and it’s time to leave that first job? Walk carefully. Leaving that first job, and how you do it, can have a lasting impact on your career. The legal community is not so large that reputation cannot follow you. Valerie Fontaine and Roberta Kass over […]
Law Practice Tip #5: Three steps to a handwritten ‘Thank You’ card
January 3, 2011 by
Strictly speaking, my tip for today–to send, thoughtful, hand written “thank you” notes–is not just a tip for your law practice, but one of those commonsense touches that has been almost forgotten. In a time when electronic communication is ubiquitous, be it by email, Twitter, Facebook, or text message, the literally written word takes on […]
Law Practice Tip #4: read “The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law”
December 29, 2010 by
Whether you’re a newly minted lawyer or a third year associate, a solo practitioner or one of hundreds in a national firm, you should regularly review of the basics of practicing law. Research, writing, presentation, argument, and knowledge of the law are just tools of our trade, and keeping them sharp is as important to our practice […]
Law Practice Tip #2: Evaluate a case in 15 minutes
December 13, 2010 by
If you’re a lawyer, time is your commodity, and it’s limited. When a potential client (a “PC”) walks in the door, you have just a few minutes to evaluate their case and get the case started, or realize that the case is a complete waste of time, for you and the PC, and send the […]
Law Practice Tip #1: Market Yourself Non-Stop
November 23, 2010 by
One thing they spend very little time teaching in law school, if any at all, is how to make money as a lawyer. Which is ironic, because all of us have heard the jokes about lawyers and their greed. How do you make a penny into a wire? Give it to a lawyer. Or how about this […]
Quote of the day: writing
July 29, 2010 by
One cannot obtain the full benefit of learning from what one reads if one does not write, too.
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