February 2009

Revenue is Down

Ed Poll runs a regular meeting of managing partners of large law firms. His members come back month after month to share ideas. These firms are among America’s top 100. Poll gave us a some insight into what is being discussed in these confidential conversations. He reveals, today, that these member firms are experiencing revenue [...]

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Podcast – Driving Down Costs to Survive the Recession

Erik Mazzone, Practice Management Advisor and the Director of the Center for Practice Management of the North Carolina Bar Association, talks with me about cutting costs on the latest Divorce Discourse Podcast. We had at least ten good ideas for reducing costs – short term and long. We plan to get together weekly to talk [...]

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Divorce Lawyer – Going too Far?

I love marketing my practice. Marketing is, for me, much more fun than many of my cases. I’ve engaged in some aggressive marketing tactics in the past and even a few media stunts. But I think there are limits and these divorce contests feel a bit over the line to me. 102.1 – The X [...]

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Dial2Do.com – Really Useful Voice to Text

Do you want to email and text from your cell phone via voice rather than typing as you drive? I’ve been playing with Dial2Do.com for about a month. It’s free, for now, but it will eventually become a paid service. Previously, I had been using Jott.com but Dial2Do beats Jott in many respects. Dial2Do is [...]

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Madoff Money in Divorce Settlement

Newsday.com reports that New York lawyer Steven Simkin is trying to recover, from his ex-wife, $2.7 million that was lost in the Madoff fraud case. Simkin took the Madoff account and paid $6.6 million to the former wife as her share of the estate. Now, Simkin has filed suit seeking a return of the cash [...]

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