A lot of men have bald or thinning hair, some have a potbelly, and others aren’t thrilled about getting older. You can make money from that! Or at least from being bald. No, this isn’t a sales pitch to grow your hair, but a way a lawyer is pitching himself to get new clients in…
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I read an interesting post at Above the Law about judges who have “punished” misbehaving attorneys by inviting them to a “kindergarten party” and “a ‘special’ emergency refresher course in first year ethics and civility.” It’s an obvious case of a “shame-on-you” discipline program, and both of those special “invites” sound like harsh reactions to immature
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As you know, “laughs” is a part of my blog’s title, so it’s obvious that I love comedy. I’ve been a clown, have done stand up, and have also taken Second City classes (which have helped my speaking engagements, too). I’m always looking to have a laugh after a long workweek, and I used to
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Recently, USA Today had an article with the headline,”Google+ adds $45 billion to Net giant’s market value.” It made me think, why? Yes, Google is trying to take over all things online. And while $45 billion is still real money, even for the US government, it’s still about half of Facebook’s valuation. So what does all
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By now, everyone knows the big news about New York congressman Anthony Weiner: he did, indeed, send out lewd pictures, and finally admitted what he had done after a week of denials. What took him so long? It was probably fear of what people thought, including his wife, who is pregnant. Even though it’s an embarrassing
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While law firms are considered a “conservative” professional service business, they seldom always represent conservative issues or at best, neutral ones. The law, like anything else, is politically charged. Think “liberal” ACLU attorneys versus “conservative” ADF lawyers. Which brings me to Katherine Franke’s article at The Huffington Post titled, “King & Spalding’s Self-Made Mess.” Ms. Franke
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Here comes some news about news sources and how they are related to the trendiest news source, Twitter. According to an article published by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, “Twitter appears at this point to play a relatively small role in sharing of links to news sources.” I think Twitter in and of itself has
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Another father who works in another office in my building shared how the night before Christmas his son wanted evidence that Santa really does come down the chimney, drop off presents and eat the cookies and milk left for him. Seemed like a normal discussion, until the boy wanted his dad to set up a camera and leave it recording so the
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Some people think the first page of a Google search has the power of God. They hope and pray their business name appears on the first page and rejoice when it does because thinking thier business is set for life. Reputation management seems to boil down to the top of a web page. When I did
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I’ve been thinking about why a law firm decides to spend money on public relations. If it’s not to further promote their reputation and trusted attorneys, then that money is wasted. If you do a Google search for “lawyer” and “reputation” one of the top paid links is for Lawyerratingz,which has the headline: Lawyers to
