SmallLaw Vacation PoliciesSmallLaw Vacation Policies
While the rest of you have spent the past three weeks sipping eggnog and draining champagne flutes, I’ve been on[...]
Month: April 2015
When To OutsourceWhen To Outsource
Once upon a time, I would have taken the Sidley Austin Word Processing Department back behind the bleachers and gotten[...]
Friends As ClientsFriends As Clients
When I was in Biglaw, I got to know a few people at the investment banks that were our primary[...]
Competing with ClerkyCompeting with Clerky
One thing I never had to worry about in Biglaw was having a client compare me to a website. I[...]
What’s An Hour Worth?What’s An Hour Worth?
I’ve always thought it was pretty cool that as attorneys our minds have been trained to the point where they[...]
Change Or Irrelevance?Change Or Irrelevance?
The legal industry has never been resistant to change. Observers and pundits often like to throw around the idea that the[...]
This Is How You Do ItThis Is How You Do It
Recently we asked the ATL audience to help us get an empirical grip on the market for Continuing Legal Education.[...]
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
Are you sitting in your office cranking out nondisclosure agreements for clients to use in their M&A deals? I have[...]
No Resting On Your LaurelsNo Resting On Your Laurels
In SmallLaw, no ones cares what grades you got in law school. No one cares if you were on a[...]
Let’s Not Kill All The LawyersLet’s Not Kill All The Lawyers
Dick the Butcher was a minor character in the middle work of a trilogy of plays the Bard wrote about[...]