May 2010

Your Vision of Family Law

Happy Memorial Day. It’s important for us to honor our fallen soldiers. We have them to thank for the fact that I can publish these comments each day. Freedom of speech has really exploded in the internet age. All Americans now have access to the printing press. That’s not true everywhere and we should be [...]

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Sunday Funny: Conflict with TV Reporter

As is often the case, you might not find this video as funny as I did. In fact, you might not think it’s funny at all. I can’t decide which one of these guys is a nut, but in lots of ways it reminds me of the bizarre interactions we have in family law cases. [...]

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Your Brand, LinkedIn, Cheating, Trends, Links and Them. Welcome to Saturday!

Happy Saturday! Every Saturday I publish links to some of the things I’ve come across that might interest you. These are things that caught my attention this week. I’m publishing these links without much comment so you’ll have to click on them if you’re curious. I also include a picture I like. How to Build [...]

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Why Attacking LegalZoom Won’t Work

I’ve read a number of articles lately, written by lawyers, explaining why buying forms from LegalZoom is a bad idea. It may well, in some cases, be a very bad idea to use the forms from LegalZoom. I’m not going to get into that debate. Unfortunately we aren’t going to win that argument with the [...]

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Are You Hiding from Your Clients

I was involved in a conversation with a small group of attorneys and the discussion turned to Gmail, the free email service provided by Google. We spent a minute talking about the terms of service and the anxiety created by the possible loss of attorney-client privilege. I understand why that worries some attorneys. Then we [...]

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Find Out What You Should Start, Stop and Keep Doing

Once a year I meet with everyone in the firm for the purpose of getting their answers to three questions. I ask – (1) What should we start doing? (2) What should we stop doing? (3) What should we keep doing? I schedule a time to sit down with each person and meet privately. I [...]

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5 Ways to Stop Thinking and Start Doing

I rarely DO anything. It’s my biggest problem (some claim my biggest problem is my grating personality, but I’ll save that for another day). I love thinking and talking about things. I’m ambivalent about the doing part. It’s really a problem for me and I struggle with it every single day. I’ve found a few [...]

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Why You Shouldn’t Be a Spammer

Two things happened to me last Thursday that I want to tell you about. First, I had the opportunity to hear a website marketing consultant pitch his company at a seminar. Someone asked him about Twitter. He explained that it was really good for things like tweeting “Raleigh Equitable Distribution Lawyer” and inserting a link [...]

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