November 30, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized Do Blogs “Work”? At a family gathering over Thanksgiving, my dad, a retired Procter & Gamble executive, asked me this question: “Does your blog work? […]
November 28, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized Rule Two: The Client Is The Main Event. “The Big Obvious.” Rule Two: The Client is the Main Event. This one, I think, is more intuitive. Rule One–the November 19 post Represent Only […]
November 19, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized Rule One: Represent Only Clients You “Like”. Rule One: Represent Only Clients You “Like”. As a threshold matter, you cannot deliver true service to a client unless you and […]
November 16, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized Another Great Blawg I’ve Been Missing 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 […]
November 15, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized Being Right is Expensive: Why We Lost a Great Client I hate writing this–and I needed to run this by other lawyers in my firm first. But it’s my blawg and I […]
November 14, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized Good News For Corporate Law Boutiques See “Law Firm National Reach Overated” by Tom Collins in morepartnerincome re: Martindale-Hubbell’s annual survey of GCs. Query: To take it a […]
November 13, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized “Bombarding Your Clients with Paper”…Or Falling Trees Need to Be Heard Chapter K of Jay Foonberg’s book, How To Get and Keep Good Clients says that you should do just that: bombard the […]
November 13, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized Redux: Asking Clients For Work…Or Why Are Lawyers So Shy, Anyway? People seemed to like the October 30 post on “asking for business”–here it is again: Over the years this keeps happening. I […]
November 13, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized My Elevator Speech (Needs A Lot Of Work) 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 […]
November 8, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized Can Marketing Be Taught? I agree with Chicago-based Larry Bodine in his excellent November 5 post that the answer is no. In every law or accounting […]
November 7, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized An Interesting New Blawg…”The Practice” The Practice, a new blawg based in both Richmond, Virginia and Elk Grove, California, seems to focus on clients, but is directed […]
November 1, 2005February 27, 2025Uncategorized Rainmaking By Associate Lawyers? What!? I got an instructive comment in response to my October 30 post (“Asking Targeted Clients for Work…Or Why Are Lawyers So Shy, […]