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This is not the kind of thing I normally post here, but Oklahoma lawyer Stephen Jones wrote a "Saturday Essay" for the Wall Street Journal called The Case for Unpopular Clients. Since he was appointed to represent Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, he has some personal experience with this and urges that lawyers continue…

With the world's attention focused on Canada for the Olympics, now is a great time to highlight a relatively new Canadian blog. The Canadian professional liability insurer LAWPRO®'s practice assistance unit, practicePRO, launched the AvoidAClaim blog several months ago. The blog notes that AvoidAClaim has a narrow and specific focus: helping lawyers avoid legal malpractice…

I don't generally do "year in review" pieces even I though I do a CLE program on that topic each December for Oklahoma Bar Associations's annual Recent Developments CLE. But this year, even as the economy was still weak and business was not generally good, there was a lot going on with technology advances. When…

I thought I felt something and, no, it wasn't the recent Oklahoma City area 4.0 earthquake. I kept noticing that I was hearing a lot more excitement about new things on the Internet in 2009 when we'd all been taking it for granted for some time. I knew a lot of lawyers in my…

Here's one more piece from Oklahoma Bar's Ethics Counsel Travis Pickens: Social Ethics. It has nothing to do with social media, but instead is a humorous look at how to handle something every lawyer has encountered, the person who approaches you for free advice at a party or other social event.

My early Christmas gift this year was being awarded a prestigious Blawggie award. Woo hoo! I'd like to thank the Academy, my producer (me), my director (again, me) and anyone who read one of my posts this year! Seriously, Dennis Kennedy has a great deal of credibility in our profession, as evidenced by the fact…

Here's an article that both I and your professional liability insurance carrier wish you would read: "To Dabble or Not to Dabble." 

With a tough economy, more lawyers are being tempted, or forced, to branch out into new practice areas. This is not a bad thing. Many lawyers have found their practices evolved into areas that…