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He told me that pretty soon, too much work will be coming my way, and naturally, I will have the urge to take everything on and do it. He said that at that point, I need to realize that the work will always be there, and that I should turn the lights off and go [...]

My post yesterday struck a chord.   There was one response which I did not want buried in the comments and decided to post as a follow up because this Mississippi lawyer , John Gillis, took the time to educate us all on the state of mandatory pro bono throughout the country. I’m a Mississippi lawyer [...]

More than three years ago I wrote this column for the Connecticut Law Tribune: ********************* Connecticut Law Tribune – June 8, 2007 (This column comes on the heels of the recent Second Circuit Decision regarding pro bono fees, as a I promised.) It’s been a year since I read an Illinois Supreme Court ruling regarding [...]

I was reading the newspaper last week (gasp! Yes, I still get one) and there was an article entitled, ‘Average Time Employees Stay At Job is 4.4 years.’ The median number of years that workers have stayed with their current employer went up to 4.4 years in January 2010, from 4.1 years in January 2008, [...]

Especially in a depressed economy, lawyers fear that niche marketing will limit their ability to
get other business. I assure them that this is a marketing strategy, not necessarily a practice
limitation. You don’t have to turn away other work…..

Lately, I have been amazed at how much I simply don’t trust anything I hear anymore and very little of what I read.  This society we live in has left me so jaded in many ways because at every turn corporations and politicians have, like water dripping on a stone over time, eroded our confidence [...]

There are times to raise legal fees, decrease legal fees or leave legal fees alone while revamping how services are delivered.  The U.S. Post Office is an example of what NOT to do. Nearly two months ago, this article on the financial crisis facing the U.S. Postal Service caught my eye (and do the read [...]

Carolyn Elefant at MyShingle.com has taken Lee Rosen of Divorce Discourse to task in her new post ‘The Virtual Law Office Debate’. Why?  Because he has written a provocative post called ‘What the Virtual Law Office Advocates Are Not Telling You. Whenever change is inevitable, before it becomes mainstream, it is framed as a debate.  [...]

In the spirit of Solo Practice University, many expert voices teaching you how to build and grow your solo practice, I am very pleased to announce that Build A Solo Practice @ SPU has a new monthly columnist, Debra Bruce. She will be providing you excellent practice-building advice the third Thursday of every month like [...]

An old post/column I wrote -  e-mail etiquette (or lack thereof) and the impact on clients – led me to check out other technologies which, without policies regarding their use, offend clients and people in general.  There was a great archived article in Missed Manners which discusses the impact of poor etiquette when using Blackberries, [...]