At conferences throughout the year, I’m often pigeonholed by attendees, who look at my name and ask me this question: “Who the fuck are you?” After I explain who I am and I buy a few rounds of drinks, people start talking to me. After a few more drinks, I tell them why my advice…
Ethical Considerations for Being a Badass Motherf**cker
We’re not going to tell you how (yet) to be a badass motherfucker. We just don’t see any ethical problems.
Tips to Manufacture Outrage in Legal Writing
To be a successful big firm lawyer, you need to understand the art of manufactured outrage. Most successful solo attorneys have developed the skill of manufacturing outrage over years of being the little guy and overlooked for major litigation. As a big firm attorney, though, you’ll need to manufacture outrage easily and on the spot.…
Five Signs You’ve Become an Old Codger Lawyer
The “Old Codger Lawyer,” a species of lawyer that is at least two generations behind but still proudly unaware of it.
Amoeba Racing and 4 Other Idiotic Law Firm Team-Building Exercises
Most team-building exercises work well, like tailgating in a parking lot before a partner’s big ERISA trial. But others are not such a good idea.
Start a Law Firm for Less than Twenty Bucks
All I’m saying is that it takes just $19.78, give or take a thumbtack.
5 Obsolete Legal Technologies that Shouldn’t Be Obsolete
Four Things That Suck But Are Ethical
Lawyers like to complain a lot about sucky things, particularly sucky things that are unethical.
Bitter Vault: Attract Home Job Clients with an IKEA Gestalt
It’s not a tough leap to apply an IKEA marketing and service focus it to your law practice.
Top 20 All-Time Blawg Posts Yet to Be Written
Each week about half a dozen lawyers ask to meet with me for blawging advice. Here is what I tell them.