June 2006

One of the hardest things about the private practice of law is the number of hours most lawyers work. TV shows and movies about lawyers don’t show the long hours reading published opinions and deposition transcripts. (And rightfully so, it just wouldn’t be entertainment.) When you work too much, the rest of your life suffers

The Bar and Grill Singers are an all-lawyer musical review group. They provided entertainment for our Oklahoma Bar Solo and Small Firm Conference this past Friday and the attendees absolutely loved them. In addition to the very funny lyrics of their songs set to familar tunes, they are just excellent singers. I’m naming their website

The subject line of this post is obvious in many ways, but there’s really some depth behind it. In all of our endeavors, we are generally satisfied when we get what we expect. (Well, that may not be true for the pessimists, but this post isn’t about them.)

Therefore it is important to the attorney-client

Let me start by saying that I generally hate lawyer ads on television. I’ve seen many of them and they are generally tacky and detrimental to the public’s perception of the legal system and the legal profession. Of course it could be said that they reflect the state of modern television. But having said that

I have several good friends and colleagues who do similar work for other state bars and Canadian law societies. We have some great discussions via e-mail. Recently we had a lengthy discussion about who or what answers your phone. For many law firms, economic reality dictates that the firm should no longer pay a full-time

Microsoft Outlook’s autocomplete feature is handy. You type in a few letters of an e-mail address and the rest is filled in for you. But there’s more to the feature than first meets the eye. Noted legal technologist Ross Kodner believes the feature is so dangerous it should be disabled in all law firms. (I’ll

As a young lawyer, one of my early "finds" was the Directory of Oklahoma. The book was later renamed the Oklahoma Almanac. This thick book was published every other year by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. It contains a wealth of information about our state, local government, geography and such. I always loved having