A Little Help From The Canadian Bar Association: “Plain Language Legal Writing”.
The Canadian Bar Association’s CBA Practice Link, which I check from time to time, has been running a 3-part series on “Plain […]
Author: Dan Hull
Huh?–Hardly Any of the AUSA’s We Know Are Eagle Scouts.
Since this post could make me seem biased about the federal prosecutor “personality”, and to be unfairly generalizing, I’ll make some preliminary […]
Two Great Blogs By Non-lawyers We Can Actually Use.
The first is I [Heart] Tech by Adriana Linares–a Florida-based tech consultant specializing in lawyers, an Earth Mother for the digital age, […]
European blawgs anyone?
I’m compiling a list of active worthwhile European legal blogs–especially those originating from or about the UK, Germany and France (English versions […]
LAW PROFESSION NEGATIVITY IN ALL ITS FORMS, et al., Plaintiffs v. HALF-FULL CUPS, Defendants.
He’s right. In our profession, we’ve lost our mojo–if we ever had one–and we need to get it back. Or maybe get […]
Lovemarks Update: Catch Lisa Haneberg’s Mini-Series.
Management Craft is a blog by Lisa Haneberg. All week long in honor of Valentine’s Day Lisa’s discussing Kevin Roberts’ Lovemarks from […]
Arnie Herz and Legal Sanity on “Lovemarks”.
Last week, in response to a Patrick Lamb post called “Brands, Lovemarks and Tattoos”, I made a brief post (“Lovemarks”) and invited […]
2 Very Cool New Things: Blawg/Bob Review #44 and Exemplar Law Partners.
The first is Blawg Review #44 (now a/k/a “Bob Review”) by West Virginia-based health care lawyer Bob Coffield at Health Care Law […]
Rule Eight: Think Like the Client–Help Control Costs.
Rule Eight: Think Like The Client–Help Control Costs. (See the first 7 rules 1-6 here and 7 here). Ask an associate lawyer […]
Law School Applications Trend: Way Down
Interesting, surprising and probably very good news in the WSJ Law Blog from a New York Times piece today on the decline […]
Back to Work, WJC Phone Home and Searching for Tattoos.
No practice tips today. Interesting IP disputes at work I was asked to help on are draining the how-to-lawyer evangelist in me. […]
“Lovemarks”
Clever, funny and important post today by Patrick Lamb on the book Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands, by Kevin Roberts, CEO of […]
Yanks Abroad Gone Wild–Part 2
Lots of us are interested in geographic growth strategies–for our clients and for our firms. Particularly interesting to me (see recent post) […]
If You Cringe When You Read This One, Read It Again.
Patrick Lamb at In Search of Perfect Client Service has an instructive but disturbing post on “one-bounce marketing” and the start of […]
Blawg Review #43–And Check Out Act XII, Scene 2…
Bravo! Blawg Review #43 is out–this week by Boston-based and well-read Diane Levin at Online Guide To Mediation. Her theme is Shakespeare. […]
When Things Get Fast and Intense, Invoice the Client Twice a Month–But Ask First.
Hopefully, many of the ideas included in this blog benefit both the client and the firm. For me, one overall theme of […]
WJC Plays It Cool with HMPC…and More Metadata Materials.
Even with a hefty assist two days ago in a post by Peter Lattman at his new but popular WSJ Law Blog, […]
Law Firm Logos: “Goofy”, Essential or Something in Between?–Part 5
Another nice post on firm logos by Patrick Lamb at In Search of Perfect Client Service. Due to recent posts on this, […]
Yanks Abroad: Too Far, Too Fast the Wrong Way?
I was very interested to read a sober but wonderful post by Adam Smith (Bruce MacEwen) on global expansion by U.S. law […]
Metadata Primers: Understanding Mysteries, Magic and Pitfalls.
Jim Calloway at his Law Practice Tips Blog has an instructive and important post and Carolyn Elefant at My Shingle has an […]
“Law Firm Logos are Goofy, Useless, and a Waste of Time and Money”-Part 3.
The original subtly-titled January 21 post is here with a follow-up collecting some instructive posts I admired here by professional marketers who […]
The Article II, Section 2, Maybe-It’s-Just-Me Department.
So Samuel Alito “wins” 58 to 42 with only 5 party “defections” total. Regardless of your politics, and notwithstanding how elastic the […]
Sane and Worth Reading–but you read it first…I’ll get to it later.
In the first things first department, Arnie Herz and/or whoever is in his winning collection of writers over at Wall Street-based Legal […]
Polling the Real Jury–Tom Kane’s 3-part Approach to Client Interviews Makes Great Sense.
As others like Patrick Lamb have already noticed, Tom Kane at The Legal Marketing Blog has a short but excellent summary of […]
Writing For Clients–Just Say It-Part 5. “Write Like You Talk”!
In December I tried to write four posts on saner writing: parts One, Two, Three–and finally Part Four, which set out the […]
Polling the Real Jury–Tom Kane’s 3-part Formula for Client Interviews Makes Great Sense.
As others like Patrick Lamb have already noticed, Tom Kane has a short summary of a best practice 3-step approach to client […]
Still Seeking: Natural-Born Marketer From Hope, Arkansas.
Running our ad again: WANTED: Of counsel for growing Pittsburgh-based boutique business law firm. Must have at least 8 years of highest […]
“Can Lawyers Be Taught To Market?”
Ellen Freedman at Law Practice Management has a thoughtful and fairly extensive post about whether marketing can be taught to lawyers, including […]
Logos, Branding and What’s in Your Name?
Julie McGuire and I are still waiting to hear from Bill Clinton in answer to Friday’s ad to make WJC of counsel […]