June 2009

Good People Are Hard to Find (Even in a Recession)

This is going to blow your mind (at least it blew my mind). We need a new employee in our Charlotte office. We ran an ad last week on careerbuilder. I’ve provided the full text of the ad below. We had 476 applicants within five days and more are coming in every hour. Here’s the [...]

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Starting a Law Practice on a Shoestring

More and more attorneys are opening new practices. It’s tough to deal with financing a new firm and it requires careful thought regarding personal and business finances. How much money do you need to open a new practice? Where will you get the money? How long will it take for the money to start to [...]

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Sunday Funny – Still Got Your Dignity

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Interesting Stuff – June 27, 2009 Edition

Each week, on Saturday, I’m publishing links to some of the things I’ve come across over the past week that might (I repeat “might”) be of interest to you. These are things that stimulated me in some way related my practice. I’m publishing these links without much comment so you’ll have to click on them [...]

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Should You Be Blogging?

Many family law practitioners have started a blog. And stopped. Of the family law blogs I follow, most have gone dormant. Many of the others add a post only a few times per month. I think you’ve largely voted with your feet by deciding not to start a blog or abandoning it after you got [...]

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Are You Sleeping With Your Secretary?

Workplace affairs are standard operating procedure in the divorce lawyer’s office, right? I mean, we deal with clients sleeping with their coworkers, superiors and subordinates all day long. It’s pretty unusual to get through a day without dealing with at least one person that is involved in a workplace relationship turned romantic. But what about [...]

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Reminding Us of Our Values

Many years ago we engaged in a process for determining the core values held by our firm. We went round and round and settled on five brief statements that capture who we are and what we stand for. We didn’t look for aspirational values. We pushed ourselves to figure out what we were already all [...]

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Getting No-Shows to Show

I read a post on a family law list serve yesterday asking about “no-shows” or missed appointments. The attorney was wondering why people make an appointment for an initial consultation and then fail to show up. Is it because the consult fee is more than they can afford and they’re embarrassed to say so? Is [...]

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