Everyone talks about New Year's Resolutions. My favorite joke is about the New Year's Resolutions Gym concept. It is a gym during January and February, then converts to a bar & night club for several months until just before Thanksgiving. Then it becomes a holiday buffet for the rest of the year. Interested investors can
December 2016
Echos of Police, Privacy and Alexa
The last part of December contains many slow news days because so many people take off work during the holiday season. This week there was a collective sadness with the deaths of Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds. (RIP Princess.) This week there was also a collective “freak out” over coverage of a 2015…
The Basics of a Lawyer’s Smartphone
Somewhere a lawyer has just gotten his or her first smartphone. Maybe they received it as a Christmas gift. Maybe they were goaded into it by family, friends or co-workers. Maybe they grew tired of being handed a spouse’s phone to look at pictures posted by children or grandchildren. Maybe their flip phone just finally…
Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups (or Don’t Tell Me I Can’t, Tell Me How I Can.)
I would like for every one of my regular readers to read Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups. It is a bit unfair to lawyers and even includes a sentence about entrepreneurs hating lawyers. But we’re tough and we can take it.
This is important for you to read even if you never intend to…
Large- and Small- Firm Lawyers: New Similarities Emerge
There is clearly a difference between a lawyer who shows up at work at a law firm employing hundreds of lawyers and scores of support staff and a lawyer who shows up at his or her solo practice and greets his or her legal assistant, the only other employee of the practice.
While those differences still…
Tech Toys for the Holidays 2016
Our most fun Digital Edge podcast of the year is Tech Toys for the Holidays and our 2016 edition contains some great technology gadgets as well as much laughter and some sound effects added by the Legal Talk Network team.
This podcast includes the links to all of the tech toys we feature which range…