In my last post, I showed you how to evaluate your practice’s performance in 2012; now, it’s time to make sure you’re on track in 2013 – and that requires a plan. As Ben Franklin so aptly put it, “A failure to plan is a plan to fail.” Since you don’t want to fail, it’s [...]
It’s a question every criminal defense attorney gets asked sooner or later: “How can you defend those kinds of people?” And if it’s not in the form of a question, it’s usually some unrequested advice: “You should practice something respectable, like corporate law…or family law.” So, what’s my usual response? I’ll save you the generic [...]
The first few months of a new year are a great time to take an inventory of how the last year worked out for your law practice. If your year was a blazing success from start to finish, what can you do to make this year even better? If last year was disappointing in some [...]
If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to become more educated on technology trends and law firm management, you should attend one of the nation’s largest technology shows specific to the legal industry. “But wait,” you say. “My firm’s not very tech [savvy] [focused] [inclined] [oriented]. And besides, that wasn’t one of my resolutions.” [...]
As the main-stream media currently focuses on stories of Manti Te’o’s fake dead-girlfriend and Lance Armstrong’s failed dope tests, a subtle aspect of the interplay between our government and our personal freedoms steadily shifts in the balance. The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is in session, and the ultimate law of the land [...]
