law practice
Car Crash Lawyers - Mary Flood swims with the sharks
Mary Flood swims with the sharks on the Legal Trade Blog and at the Houston Chronicle, ahead of some upcoming CLE courses entitled “THE CAR CRASH SEMINAR”. The subject of advertising came up, as it must in all conversations about Jim Adler.
Donald Kidd, a former Fulbright & Jaworski lawyer who works with Adler, said the […]
No Asshole Rule Redux - When to Fire a Client
I blogged recently on No Asshole Rule, a question of whether firms should take proactive steps to eradicate unreasonable behavior in the work environment by forcing offending employees to change their ways or getting rid of them, even when they’re otherwise profitable performers.
On a related note, the WSJ Law Blog asks the question from a […]
Helping Universities self-police NCAA regulations emerges as lucrative practice area for law firms
Joe Drape of the NY Times has a fascinating article on an emerging practice area - Facing N.C.A.A., the Best Defense Is a Legal Team. Major NCAA programs have a lot of money riding on avoiding the death penalty that KO’d SMU’s football program, but also the public relations fallout of infractions revealed in the […]
Economics of Law Firm Associates
Marginal Revolution tipped me off to a really interesting paper - When Knowledge is an Asset: Explaining the Organizational Structure of Large Law Firms (.pdf, save as). Here’s the abstract -
We study the economics of employment relationships through theoretical and empirical analysis of an unusual set of firms, large law firms. Our point of departure […]
The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law
Procrastination is a powerful motivator. WSJ Law Blog turned me on to The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law. While finishing up my torts outline last week in the library all of a sudden I just had to read it. Procrastination well spent though. It’s an excellent stocking stuffer for any lawyers or would be-lawyers. Hell, […]
Debra Bruce, Law Practice Management
Debra Bruce primarily does executive coaching for lawyers but she has also been invaluable to me as a resource on getting started thinking on the practice of law (it’s never too early 1L’s!) and member of the Texas State Bar’s Law Practice Management Committee. She has impressive legal experience at Baker-Botts and running her own […]
New York Times on Milberg Weiss, lead counsel manuevers
The New York Times is running background on the upcoming case U.S. v. Milberg Wiess (.pdf) in which Vogel, a Florida real estate developer intentionally invested in stocks of a particular company in the belief that it was on the verge of collapse. This was a rational thing for Vogel to do only because the […]