Once again, Lowering the Bar takes the cake when it comes to finding, or making, fun in the legal world Sure, you could spend years actually developing a reputation for trustworthiness and plain-spoken honesty, or you could just Photoshop your head onto the body of somebody who’s already done that. This lawyer in the Philadelphia […]
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 […]
Law Practice Tip #3: Declining Representation
December 20, 2010 by
If you’re like me, you occasionally get calls from family or friends about legal issues, and not because they want to hire you. Additionally, because you’re a lawyer, you get those occasional legal questions while out and about socially. People making conversation. Or so you think. Until suddenly you get a notice from the court […]
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 […]
Lawyers don’t produce anything.
September 27, 2010 by
This is the one in which a lawyer produces something. But first, this from Antonin Scalia: [L]awyers, after all, don’t produce anything. They enable other people to produce and to go on with their lives efficiently and in an atmosphere of freedom. That’s important, but it doesn’t put food on the table… And now, cut […]
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