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Top Law-Related Floppy Disks in the Past Year

June 10, 2019 by Bitter Staff Leave a Comment

In the spirit of keeping the floppy disk trade active and growing, here are three top law-related floppy disks we came across in the past year

Filed Under: Big Legal Brain, Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: Big Legal Brain, technology

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Why BigLaw Associates Should Listen to Me

August 24, 2017 by C. Hank Peters 9 Comments

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…

Filed Under: Big Legal Brain, Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: advice, Big Legal Brain, biglaw, gl11, SmallLaw

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Ethical Considerations for Being a Badass Motherf**cker

June 13, 2017 by C. Hank Peters 2 Comments

We’re not going to tell you how (yet) to be a badass motherfucker. We just don’t see any ethical problems.

Filed Under: Big Legal Brain, Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: Big Legal Brain, legal marketing

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Tips to Manufacture Outrage in Legal Writing

May 22, 2017 by C. Hank Peters 12 Comments

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.…

Filed Under: Big Legal Brain, Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: Big Legal Brain, gl11, legal writing

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Five Signs You’ve Become an Old Codger Lawyer

March 28, 2017 by C. Hank Peters 19 Comments

The “Old Codger Lawyer,” a species of lawyer that is at least two generations behind but still proudly unaware of it.

Filed Under: Big Legal Brain, Columns, Featured, Lawyer Tagged With: Big Legal Brain, gl11, hot tub, practicing law

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Amoeba Racing and 4 Other Idiotic Law Firm Team-Building Exercises

March 21, 2017 by C. Hank Peters 10 Comments

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.

Filed Under: Big Legal Brain, Columns, Featured, Lawyer Tagged With: associates, Big Legal Brain, gl11, law firms, team-building

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Start a Law Firm for Less than Twenty Bucks

September 22, 2014 by T. Scotch Reynolds 4 Comments

All I’m saying is that it takes just $19.78, give or take a thumbtack.

Filed Under: Big Legal Brain, Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: Big Legal Brain, Featured, Office Supplies

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5 Obsolete Legal Technologies that Shouldn’t Be Obsolete

March 27, 2014 by C. Hank Peters 5 Comments

Here are 5 fundamentally sound legal technologies the tech gods believe are obsolete. But they shouldn’t be.

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Filed Under: Big Legal Brain, Lawyer Tagged With: Big Legal Brain, office computer, technology

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Four Things That Suck But Are Ethical

February 21, 2013 by C. Hank Peters 2 Comments

Lawyers like to complain a lot about sucky things, particularly sucky things that are unethical.

Filed Under: Big Legal Brain, Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: Big Legal Brain, ethics, fax machines, gl11, legal marketing, unethical

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Bitter Vault: Attract Home Job Clients with an IKEA Gestalt

March 14, 2012 by C. Hank Peters Leave a Comment

It’s not a tough leap to apply an IKEA marketing and service focus it to your law practice.

Filed Under: Best of Bitter Lawyer, Big Legal Brain, Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: Big Legal Brain, legal marketing

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