Legal ethics advice can sometimes be dry and off-putting. No one likes to be lectured to, especially about not stealing, lying or misbehaving. Oklahoma Bar Association Ethics Counsel Travis Pickens gives us twelve practical suggestions about maintaining ethical standards and improving our law practices at the same time. (I will note that I introduced Travis to the
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Taking a Charge
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This weekend I am going to spend some time watching the NBA playoffs on TV. Some might say too much time, but that would just be an opinion, not a fact. I'm not alone in having this weekend plan in my state.
Perhaps that is one reason that I was inspired to write "Taking a…
His First Jury Trial
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Trial lawyers have great stories. Veteran Oklahoma City trial lawyer Rex Travis shares the story of his first jury trial. I pass this along not as a long practice management tip, but just because it is a great story. Download FirstTrial.Travis.OklahomaBar
Oklahoma Bar Solo & Small Firm Conference Combines Education and Fun
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What Oklahoma event featured football legends Barry Switzer and Billy Sims, along with rock stars Tina Turner and Mick Jagger? The surprising answer is the 2011 OBA Solo and Small Firm Conference. The football legends both attended in person, while the rock stars were there via homages from our outstanding musical entertainment, New Odyssey.…
Oklahoma Bar Solo & Small Firm Conference 2011
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Next week many of us will be at the Oklahoma Bar Association Solo & Small Firm Conference at the Downsteam Resort near Quapaw, Oklahoma.
We have more choice in sessions than in the last several years. One of our guests will be Tom Mighell, longer time blogger and author of the new book iPad in…
The Attorney’s Speech by Travis Pickens
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Can you spot all of the ethcial violations in the relatively short telephone conversation in the attached article from Oklahoma Bar Association Ethics Counsel Travis Pickens? Download The Attorneys Speech – Travis Pickens – April 2011 OBJ Reviewing this very short article might give you some good reminders about keeping out of ethical hot water…
OBA’s Opening Your Law Practice Program
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I'll be spending the day tomorrow speaking to impressionable young lawyers, along with some more experienced lawyers. The Oklahoma Bar Association is putting on our free program Opening Your Law Practice in Tulsa, with the Oklahoma City session scheduled next week. We do one program in the spring and these two in the fall. (We renamed our New…
Hot Legs(?) and Customer Service
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Dan Hull, on his What About Clients?™ blog, featured a Rod Stewart video with his post Hot Legs: Great–and Enduring–Customer Service Sites. I am honored that he included my blog in a fairly long list of blogs that "feature useful models, ideas, best practices and tips on effective customer service" in Dan's words. Check out…
New Lawyer Experience Program Set for Oklahoma City
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Today 65 new lawyers were sworn in as members of the Oklahoma Bar Association. Next Tuesday, April 27, many of them will be attending a free program we put on called The New Lawyer Experience. You can see the complete program schedule online here. Several states have these these "transition to practice" programs and…
Debate on the Free Access to Law
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Apparently there is a fairly robust online debate about the state of the free access to the law. As we know the law is generally found in case opinions and statutes, which are, generally speaking, in the public domain by their nature. Scholarly treatises and law reviews provide analysis and commentary. Other research tools provide help in…