Today’s tone will be a little earthier and more personal than I am normally willing to indulge here. If coarse analogies offend, please go read this vulgarity-free light reading instead. Lawyers far more skilled and dedicated than I have taken risks in their profession over the two centuries of the practice of law in this
Why, oh why, does an attorney state the results of attorney-client work product and even attorney-client communications in front of a TV camera? Why tell Anderson Cooper whether a client communicated with you and what those communications were? Who in the name of mighty Thor congratulates the prosecution for convicting his client of felonies? Criminal
As noted within the Law Office’s website, the Law Office hasn’t shied away from taking political stands. It represents only workers, not management, in employment law disputes, and maintains a pro-worker, pro-union, pro-labor perspective. It supports the legalization of marijuana, supports the 2nd Amendment as a human right – and also supports the 1st Amendment
Long post; skip it if you aren’t in the mood. About 18 months ago I had the honor of co-presenting a survey of social media for attorneys to a section at the Maryland State Bar Association’s Solo and Small Firm Conference. My survey was droll and I ran on too long, to the detriment of
What are brands? “Brand” comes from a Germanic route meaning “to burn”; the related words “brandy”, “brent” and many modern German words employ this root to describe the act or recipient of burning. In North America and later some other places, cattle were branded (burned, though not too painfully I am told) with glowing-hot iron
It’s bad enough that we attorneys have to use vendors to supply our needs like everyone else in business. Good business judgment encourages economization and a careful eye on the effective rate of return from expenditures, including supplies, utilities, equipment, fixtures, inventory (not that that’s much of an issue in 99% of law offices) and
“Br-r-r-r-r-inggg” [Gee, hope that’s H_____ D______ calling me re: my piece of the S_____________ settlement.] “Good morning, this is Bruce Godfrey; may I help you?” “Hi, may I speak to the owner of the Law Office of Bruce Godfrey?” [Christ, one of these.] “Yes, I am Bruce Godfrey; this is my law office. May I
I have changed the outgoing message on my office switchboard voicemail to tell online social media marketing companies aiming at attorneys (or others, but especially at us lawyers) to change careers and explore honest work as an alternative. The number of loud-mouthed Glengarry-wannabes calling and leaving messages to the effect that “we have a few
As a criminal defense attorney, I get many calls from parents of young adults seeking legal counsel. Often this occurs when the young adult gets charged with some minor offense at college or semi-“away from home.” Here are some things that you need to know. 1. While what you say to the attorney you are
Long post. In general, we Americans favor the doer over the critic. Theodore Roosevelt lost his charm for me once I learned that he attacked American Revolution founding father Thomas Paine as “that filthy little atheist” – inaccurately, Paine being a Deist and scathing critic of nearly every form of Christianity that he encountered. Roosevelt’s
