Over the years I have tried to encourage solo and small firm lawyers to develop and consistently use a conflict system that tracks all of the information best practices currently dictate. In all honesty, I will admit that I have had limited success in this endeavor. I’ve concluded that I’m just not going to win […]

I will admit that I honestly don’t understand why a lawyer would ever make a decision to not buy a malpractice policy but many lawyers do and the reasons I hear are many. Some believe the premiums are beyond affordable. They’ll tell me “just look at what Docs have to pay.” Others have decided that […]

I’ve previously written here about “Leveraging Dictation Technology to Save Time and Overhead.” I’m a big fan of dictation and I often dictate on my iPhone for emails, texts, searches on Google or a map app and to ask Siri a question. If you do that too, you are already using Nuance speech recognition software […]

There are intricacies in every practice area that attorneys unfamiliar with the subject don’t know.  Even worse, they often don’t know what it is that they don’t know.   While it is true that generalist attorneys still exist and expertise can only come with experience, it can be very risky to dabble* in “whatever walks […]

Keeping it short and sweet this month.  It’s all about attitude. *Rezooming your legal profession starts with your belief that you can. Nothing else matters. Wishing and hoping will not become believing and knowing. You need to decide to adopt the latter. If you don’t you will find the obstacles to rezooming insurmountable. A belief […]

Or, ‘The Fine Art of Zealous Representation’. As my practice grows, we have taken on more litigation. That is mostly because we are starting to have clients that have been around long enough to sue somebody or get sued by somebody, but it’s also because we are big enough to handle the work load on […]