October 2007

The ABA Journal has just published the Top 10 Ethics Traps with a good cross-section of legal ethics experts contributing. They even tell you how to avoid many of the traps. It is always good to read some "war stories" about mistakes you (hopefully) haven’t made. Nice graphics on the layout, too.

I first became aware of the Shepard Law Group as a result of legal media coverage they received when they banished the billable hour from their firm. Jay Shepard came up with a very cute idea for the name of a blog related to employment law issues: Gruntled Employees. (After all you don’t want…

OK, this is probably more a life tip than a  practice management tip, but so what? There is one inexpensive item that I have at home, in my computer bag and in a desk drawer. That is a Tide to Go stick. As Ross Kodner recently pointed out at a "60 Tips" presentation, these work…

Last night was one of my more fun and unusual presentations. At the Hudson-Hall-Wheaton chapter meeting of the American Inns of Court in Tulsa, they combined electronic data discovery with a Saturday Night Live theme. So after giving a serious talk on EDD, I sat down to be interviewed by the Church Lady, who soon…

Last week’s 2nd Annual GPSSF National Solo and Small Firm Conference in Philadelphia was a success by any measure.  We had over 230 registered attendees and a large percentage of them were members of the Solosez community from all across the country. Marion J. Browning-Baker, an attorney from Stuttgart, Germany won the "farthest travel to…