Wishful thinking doesn’t build a law practice
My friend Debra Bruce (a/k/a the Lawyer Coach) has an article at Law.com: “From Associate to Solo — Don’t Overestimate Your Value.” She discusses how young lawyers tend to overlook many of the...
View ArticleCan contract lawyers practice ethically?
A malpractice suit filed earlier this summer by JM Eagle alleges that McDermott Will & Emery failed to adequately supervise the contract attorneys they retained to do document review, leading to...
View ArticlePlease, bacon, don’t look at me like that…
I love bacon. Perhaps more accurately, I am fixated on bacon. Due to some new resolutions to get in shape, I find I must abstain from my usual diet of putting bacon in everything, alas. But today, I...
View ArticleIll-timed (and ill-conceived) statement may lead to ethics complaint
I’m no stranger to saying dumb things without thinking. Mine usually come in the form of trying to make a joke too soon, as opposed to today’s story. Let me switch from snark to outrage. An...
View ArticleA new manifesto for lawyers? Maybe…
Rachel Rodgers, the self-proclaimed 21st-Century Lawyer for Generation Y Entrepreneurs, has put out a “21st Century Lawyer Manifesto.” It proclaims a new ethic, or aesthetic, or something, for the...
View ArticleLinks I’m Reading Today, October 28, 2011
Fundamentalism Corrupts (The Bronze Blog) Everything (xkcd: “I want to give you everything, just to see what you would do with it.”) It ought to be up to Americans to decide what is true! (Pharyngula)...
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