Practice Management

Fly Me To The Moon

Posted on March 09, 2009
Had court today. Went to the farmer's market on the way home. Settled a couple of cases today. Worked on paperwork. Thought about what I need to do to finish up my taxes. Now, I need to unwind a little before my carpet commute home. At the world wide home office music does in fact calm the savage beast...

Texas Southern University Left Off The New Metro Line To Be Built In Houston

Posted on March 09, 2009
Okay, maybe this post concerns local issues, but it does have a great impact on law schools in Houston, Texas. If you are striving to build a dynamic higher tier university and law school in an urban area, mass transit is important to that growth and for your prestige...

If You Are Thinking Of Starting A New Practice Stop Worrying About The Wrong Things

Posted on March 09, 2009
Before I begin let me say that if you have not visited Solo Practice University, you should. I was just hanging out there, and found this inspiration about the wrong priorities of enter into a new law practice. __________ From what I know, what I have done, and what I see so many new practice lawyers do wrong is concentrating on the wrong thing when thinking about or establishing a new law practice...

Fly Me To The Moon

Posted on March 09, 2009
Had court today. Went to the farmer's market on the way home. Settled a couple of cases today. Worked on paperwork. Thought about what I need to do to finish up my taxes. Now, I need to unwind a little before my carpet commute home. At the world wide home office music does in fact calm the savage beast...

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Texas Southern University Left Off The New Metro Line To Be Built In Houston

Posted on March 09, 2009
Okay, maybe this post concerns local issues, but it does have a great impact on law schools in Houston, Texas. If you are striving to build a dynamic higher tier university and law school in an urban area, mass transit is important to that growth and for your prestige...

Newspapers Are Dying - What About You?

Posted on March 07, 2009
It is easy to see this in regard to the online news everyday, is it not? I can also see it on my breakfast table in the morning. The Houston Chronicle is getting smaller by the day, combining sections, and constantly laying off staff. The news recently is that the Philadelphia Daily News is to become a mere edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer after the parent of both companies filed bankruptcy...

Newspapers Are Dying - What About You?

Posted on March 07, 2009
It is easy to see this in regard to the online news everyday, is it not? I can also see it on my breakfast table in the morning. The Houston Chronicle is getting smaller by the day, combining sections, and constantly laying off staff. The news recently is that the Philadelphia Daily News is to become a mere edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer after the parent of both companies filed bankruptcy...

Do Not Be A Yukkie Spongmonkey

Posted on March 06, 2009
Have I ever told you when I quit eating at Quiznos?I use to appreciate the fact that Quiznos offered offered great tasting subs, salads and soups made from fresh ingredients. Now everybody is doing it, but I loved their toasted sandwiches. But, now when I see or hear of Quiznos, or when somebody suggest we go there for lunch, it feel like gagging...

Do Not Be A Yukkie Spongmonkey

Posted on March 06, 2009
Have I ever told you when I quit eating at Quiznos? I use to appreciate the fact that Quiznos offered offered great tasting subs, salads and soups made from fresh ingredients. Now everybody is doing it, but I loved their toasted sandwiches. But, now when I see or hear of Quiznos, or when somebody suggest we go there for lunch, it feel like gagging...

Is There A Loan Modification Niche For Attorneys?

Posted on March 05, 2009

Google Map Of All Of The ABA Approved Law Schools

Posted on March 05, 2009

Is There A Loan Modification Niche For Attorneys?

Posted on March 05, 2009
Or, are non-lawyers going to take this booming niche. According to Salon.Com, about 40 mortgage brokers and real-estate agents paid $195 to attend a seminar conducted by broker Allen Brodetsky and local real-estate attorney Steve Vondran in Long Beach to learn fresh ways to make money...

Google Map Of All Of The ABA Approved Law Schools

Posted on March 05, 2009
If you are in the preliminary stages of thinking about law schools, and you are trying to figure out what schools are both available to you and within the location you want to attend, you can of course go down all of the state listings on various sites...

Would It Not Be Great If Everybody Was As Ethical As Practicing Lawyers?

Posted on March 04, 2009

Would It Not Be Great If Everybody Was As Ethical As Practicing Lawyers?

Posted on March 04, 2009
I know all of the lawyer jokes. For some reason lay people think we lawyers want to hear lawyer jokes. And on a superficial level some are funny enough. Take for example the one that goes, what is the difference between a lawyer and a catfish? Well, one is a bottom-dwelling scum-sucker ...

PACER, Tear Down This Wall !!

Posted on March 02, 2009

PACER, Tear Down This Wall !!

Posted on March 02, 2009
PACER/ECF was a godsend for Third Wavers, connected attorneys, future lawyers, telecommuters, home office lawyers and, really, all lawyers when it was first established. It sure beat the hell out of making tons of copies of a documents and either couriering or FEDEXing them to the Courthouse, and then turning around and mailing out copies to everyone and his dog who had any interest in the case...

More Public Law Schools, Please

Posted on March 01, 2009

Stop Selling Your Practice Area And Start Selling Results

Posted on February 28, 2009

Marketing Is An Investment

Posted on February 27, 2009

Hot Damn, The State Bar Of Texas Has A Blog!

Posted on February 27, 2009

Video Of Part Of The Ultimate Home Office

Posted on February 24, 2009
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Oh The Pain! Oh The Opportunity!

Posted on February 22, 2009
I am not sure you need commercial office space to practice law, but if you think so now is the time to act. Vacancy rates everywhere are rising and rising quickly. America is overbuilt. Demand is falling. Many big cities are hurting in this regard. No leases, no refinancing...

The Blind Leading The Blind In Applying To Law School

Posted on February 22, 2009
I have to admit that I have not thought about it much, which just shows my woeful lack of knowledge or perspective on the difficulties of the blind trying to apply to law school in this age of the web based application process.The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and a blind law school applicant filed suit against the U...

Thinking Small

Posted on February 22, 2009
In my heyday of pursuing the big dream there was an older attorney in Texarkana, Texas named Buddy Britt who like to tell people, "Chuck is like the farmer who says 'I don't want to own all of the land, just the land next to mine'". When you think about it, that's pretty funny...

Expresso Book Machine 2.0 For Commercial Rollout

Posted on February 21, 2009
Produce perfectly bound paperback books at the point of sale.Wow, I am not sure what this says about a paperless society overall, but it certainly has its benefits. At least it eliminates the use of paper that is not presently in demand. It would cut down or eliminate the cost and carbon needed to transport tons of books to stores and libraries all across the Nation...

Ave Maria School Of Law Wins

Posted on February 20, 2009
Ave Maria School of Law has had its detractors. It is hard to understand why. Certainly part of it is that it is a serious Catholic institution and its moral philosophy disturbs a few. But, ultimately it is a private institution, with a good bar passage rate, and it gives out a large number of scholarships...

Hiring Contract Attorneys

Posted on February 18, 2009
We speak a lot here about collaboration as a substitute for building a large, bulky, high overhead law firm. Often the way we propose is to simply associate with attorneys and divide the work out for varying percentages of the overall case. You are not necessarily involved in a partnership in this situation, but you are often regularly associated with each other...

91 Year Old Female Drummer - Allee Willis Presents "Hey Jerrie"

Posted on February 14, 2009
With analyzing it really, there is a lot we can learn from this 91 year old drummer on oxygen.

Duct Tape -- Designing A Referral System

Posted on February 12, 2009
Do you follow Duct Tape Marketing? You should. It covers a lot of interesting small business issues even for lawyers, although that is not the main focus for John Jantsch. John as started a two part series on his blog about designing and operating a referral system...

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