October 10, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized Why Perfect Legal Work Alone Just Doesn’t Matter….Or The Bill Gates-to-Steve Jobs Comeback Line of the 20th Century My favorite comeback line ever comes not from W.C. Fields, Winston Churchill or Cicero but from Bill Gates — in a fictionalized […]
September 30, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized Think Globally, Act Globally?–It’s a New World for Lawyers, Ready or Not… Law practices with clients who trade across borders are becoming the norm. This week about 3000 lawyers are meeting in Prague in […]
September 13, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized My Kind of Blog: Mark Beese’s Leadership for Lawyers Here’s a quality contribution to the blawg community. Last week I discovered Mark Beese, the self-described in-house “marketing guy” at Denver-based Holland […]
September 7, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized So, read any good books this summer? Colleagues back east say I’ve been in California too long because the business books I talk up seem always to be about […]
August 31, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized My Diversion: Jury Duty in America’s Finest City Although the three other lawyers and I were not selected, last week, after postponing it twice, I showed up for jury duty […]
August 26, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized What if you only represented clients you actually “liked”? Only a few books I can find on the subject of rendering services to customers in the business sections of Borders or […]
August 1, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized Are lawyers just kidding themselves about delivering true service to clients? Reviews on lawyers always have ranged from architects of great nations and the world’s commercial markets to necessary evils who add little […]