August 2009

Winning Alternative book cover On Monday, August 24th, the debate about alternatives to the billiable hour got even more high profile as articles appeared about the topic in both the Wall Street Journal and Corporate Counsel. I received Corporate Counsel in the morning mail and soon thereafter my inbox received notices of the WSJ feature from a discussion

Seth Godin has a blog post Fidelity vs. Convenience discussing the concepts in Kevin Maney's upcoming book. The book's premise is that there is a trade off "between delivering extraordinary experiences (which he calls fidelity) and doing it in a way that's cheap and easy (convenience)."

Godin says,"In the words of Bill Gross, in order

With the school year beginning, I'm hearing more people talk about netbooks, those low cost laptops that are gaining in popularity. In fact the OBA Executive Director just bought one for his home use. But can a netbook work for a practicing lawyer and what are its limits? I'm not really set up to do hardware

A lot of people are concerned about online reputation management. They are worried about things posted online about them or their families. Lawyers in particular worry that unhappy former clients will post untrue things about the lawyer online that are difficult or impossible to refute.

Our Rules of Professional Conduct say a lawyer may reveal

A lawyer I know told me she had to complete her "semi" work before going on vacation. She continued , "you know, in case I get hit by a semi while on vacation, I wouldn't want people to find a mess here." Unfortunately, life is unpredictable and be it a semi mishap or just not