David Giacalone has a great post at f/k/a that should serve as a reminder to unscrupulous, unethical or merely careless or inept attorneys that even if the Bar can’t – or won’t penalize you for…
Evan Schaeffer of Legal Underground examines, from a prospective client’s perspective, what it must be like to hire a lawyer from the Yellow Pages in his most recent podcast installment of Law Related Things That…
Usually, I like to highlight articles that our audience should read and follow. But here’s one that you really shouldn’t – unless you want to learn what not to do to market a practice. This…
There’s an interesting practice area desribed in this article, Lawyers Look for Errors in VA Claims, Beth Silver, Twincities.com (3/6/05): Veteran’s Law. As the article reports, two Minneapolis attorneys, Tracy Capistrant and Becca Wong specialize…
Are you a “Heavy Hitter” – or a lawyer who means business? What about a Tiger? These are just a couple of the slogans mentioned in this brief article here. What’s your slogan – and…
As we at MyShingle have said many times, a retainer agreement is one of the most important tools that we lawyers have to protect ourselves from unscrupulous or troublesome clients. It should be obvious though…
Kudos to the Texas Young Lawyers Association for this innovative project, tenminutementor.com, an online library of video presentations on topics like substantive law (mostly Texas, but some, like the talk on Ten Tips for Federal…
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