Law firm marketing companies want you. Specifically, they want your money. With promises of making it easy for your clients to find you online, and a phone ringing off the hook, they lure you into five year contracts at ridiculous prices. They promise that by redesigning your web site or managing your social media or […]

In case you didn’t know, I am a scuba diver. In fact, just this summer I completed the coursework and dives for both my Nitrox and Advanced certifications. That’s scuba-speak for, “Now I can do deep dives, wreck dives and dive longer.” Fun stuff. I was at the bottom of the ocean, at 107 feet […]

Dear Law School Graduate, Congratulations! You just finished what seemed impossible three-and-a-half short years ago as you sat in your first Contracts class thinking you might die if your professor actually called on you. You finished. And now, as you prepare for what seems like an even more insurmountable challenge – passing the bar exam […]

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.” John Greenleaf Whittier,     Maud Muller – Pamphlet What if you didn’t have a mountain of student loan debt? What if you didn’t have to worry about what all your lawyer friends thought about you? What if you never had […]

My assistant, Wendy, and I had a heated discussion recently regarding my calendar. “It would help if, instead of just putting stuff for me to do on my calendar at random times, you’d make appointments with the client for me to call them. That way it’s an actual appointment, not just a suggestion,” I said. […]

I have spent a lot of time telling you all the reasons why I was unhappy as a Big Law associate, how and why I left Big Law, and what I’m doing now. I’ve expounded about what is wrong at Big Law. But there’s something more to the story. Something you ought to hear. Many […]