In the category of weird legal news, we have this: “Lawyer turned stripper to pay the bills.” (No, we don’t have pictures to prove it, and by “it” I mean that she is a stripper, or a lawyer, either, for that matter…and just like that, 99% of the readers who found this blog while Googling […]
Practice Tip: Note to self–don’t hit ‘reply all’
July 13, 2011 by
A quickie: when you get an email from opposing counsel, the cc line full of email addresses, don’t just hit ‘reply all’ or you might be violating ethics rules. Rule 4.2(a) in the Utah Rules of Professional Conduct provides guidance on this: In representing a client, a lawyer shall not communicate about the subject of the […]
Anyone’s fault but mine
July 12, 2011 by
A sign we’ve become too litigious? Or just stupid? This, from Namby Pamby, my favorite lawyer-with-a-nom-de-plume: Caller: I fell and I want to talk to a lawyer about taking my case. Me: You’re talking to a lawyer. Tell me what happened. Caller: It was raining when I got out of my car. I closed the […]
Next battle in the Affordable Healthcare Act drama? Administrative Rulemaking.
June 28, 2011 by
If you thought the big fight over health care reform was last year with the passage of the Affordable Care Act (the “ACA”), or in the courts over its constitutionality, then think again. Something every bit as big and as important is coming, yet. Don’t get me wrong. The passage of the ACA was a serious […]
A post in which a businessman feeds himself to a shark, er, lawyer.
June 17, 2011 by
You own a small business. You provide a service or a product. Then one day, you get a letter. No, it’s not a letter of gratitude from a happy client. Actually, it is just the opposite. Somewhere along the way, one of your well-meaning employees messed up on a job. It caused a lot of […]
Practice Tip (via ABL): How to Become an (Almost) Indispensable Junior Associate
March 8, 2011 by
Short of going solo, there’s almost no way around the fact: you’re going to be a junior associate before you become a partner. But that doesn’t mean you have to wait to be a partner to start thinking like one. Start now, says Above the Law. Take ownership of winning your case or completing your […]
A Modest Tort Reform
February 28, 2011 by
A Modest Tort Reform. One plaintiff’s lawyer (aka “ambulance chaser“) gives his take on Tort Reform (which doesn’t mean changing how you make confections…). A snippet: We go by all sorts of names: Trial attorney, victim’s rights lawyer, shyster, stupid, ambulance chaser and so on and so forth. You’ve likely heard about our kind a […]
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