Author: Dan Hull

Practicing law is demanding and difficult. Many lawyers I know either have no time to read, or are too burned out from […]

There were news reports yesterday that former U.S. Attorney General and Baltimore Venable partner Benjamin Civiletti, 70, is now charging $1,000 an […]

Back to thinking about legal writing for clients de-mystified (December 9 post), I wonder if you just start with writing to courts. […]

Today it struck me how interesting and exciting it is to be part of the new–well, new to me–legal blogosphere when I […]

Rule Four: Deliver Legal Work That Changes the Way Clients Think About Lawyers. This rule, like Rule One, is not so intuitive. […]

Regularly I’m reading Tom Kane’s www.legalmarketingblog.com, a quality blog, and I’m adding it to the list of Blawgs I Read. One of […]

Writing for clients, or taking legal jargon and legal-ese out of client documents, is an important topic for me and my firm. […]

In case you missed some of it during Thanksgiving week–I know I did–some very fine debate and commentary came our way on […]

1. We, your client, come first. Be nice, be professional–but if in doubt, in litigation, use the procedural rules. If you feel […]

So maybe blogs do “work.” Another post from The Practice helps answer my question.

The Practice, by Jonathan Stein and Shane Jimison, quickly became a favorite blog of mine. Consistently good client-focused advice–whether you represent individuals […]

Zeal. Our professional rules in America say we should have this when we advance matters on behalf of a client. What does […]

I am working on it. I am getting better. But as a type-A first-born child who became a litigator, I have a […]

At a family gathering over Thanksgiving, my dad, a retired Procter & Gamble executive, asked me this question: “Does your blog work? […]

Rule Two: The Client is the Main Event. This one, I think, is more intuitive. Rule One–the November 19 post Represent Only […]

Rule One: Represent Only Clients You “Like”. As a threshold matter, you cannot deliver true service to a client unless you and […]

Here’s another client-centric blawg I missed and now intend to check regularly: Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog. It’s useful, well-written, funny–and […]

I hate writing this–and I needed to run this by other lawyers in my firm first. But it’s my blawg and I […]

See “Law Firm National Reach Overated” by Tom Collins in morepartnerincome re: Martindale-Hubbell’s annual survey of GCs. Query: To take it a […]

Chapter K of Jay Foonberg’s book, How To Get and Keep Good Clients says that you should do just that: bombard the […]

People seemed to like the October 30 post on “asking for business”–here it is again: Over the years this keeps happening. I […]

I’ve worked on it for over 20 years–still don’t have it right: “I’m a litigator, trial lawyer, really…uh, but the firm does […]

I agree with Chicago-based Larry Bodine in his excellent November 5 post that the answer is no. In every law or accounting […]

The Practice, a new blawg based in both Richmond, Virginia and Elk Grove, California, seems to focus on clients, but is directed […]

I got an instructive comment in response to my October 30 post (“Asking Targeted Clients for Work…Or Why Are Lawyers So Shy, […]

Nashville-based Tom Collins of Juris writes morepartnerincome. Consistently a high quality blawg with valuble content every day, it is one of the […]

Huh? Fine lawyer, fine judge–wrong choice.

Over the years this keeps happening. I take a general counsel or non-lawyer executive or CFO of a targeted client to lunch […]

Yes to both questions. Call me non-egalitarian, a Tory or an elitist but state court judges–trial or appellate–should never be popularly elected. […]

Of the eight entries I’ve done in this blawg since launching it in August, the key and central post–and the one I […]