In response to the December 29 post on the apparent failure of most lawyers to brand their firms, Michelle Golden at Golden […]

While my firm is involved in several practices areas focused on larger businesses–ranging from employment practices to international tax to IP–my law […]

I’m very happy that Pat Lamb had a short post on proofreading yesterday. Invoices–which if done correctly are a great way to […]

Speaking of blawg reviews, here’s something fun. And intelligent. See yesterday’s post from Evan Schaeffer’s Legal Underground with resolutions for better blog […]

And the winners are….

Everyone loves blog awards. Or they should. I’m a believer in the utility of envy. Here, for instance, a flash, in my […]

This is my fourth Renaissance Weekend since being invited in 2003. Ego suppression and exchanging ideas is the order of each day. […]

Just in case everything I know is just plain wrong, I am headed to Charleston, South Carolina to meet with members of […]

Rule Five: “Over-Communicate”: Bombard, Copy and Confirm.This blog is indebted to Jay Foonberg for the inspiration for Rule 5–both “bombarding” and the […]

Law.com’s In-House Counsel section recently linked to a December 9 article from the Fulton County [Georgia] Daily Report entitled “Getting an Earful […]

The subject of passion came up in two fine recent posts (here and here) I just noticed from Pat Lamb at In […]

The Greatest American Lawyer has two thoughtful back-to-back posts (here and here) on the extent to which technology and outsourcing can actually […]

Five years ago, Julie McGuire, a CPA and tax lawyer with whom I co-founded my firm in 1992, and I wrote a […]

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 […]