Practice Management

Cash Pedal

Posted on May 31, 2008
You know what I am talking about, right? The accelerator pedal in our cars during times of high gasoline prices. The prodigious use of the accelerator pedal now basically leads to less money on which to live. And, the biggest problem is not so much that what I do only affects me...

Finally, A Little Recognition For The City

Posted on May 29, 2008
I call the Houston area home. I actually live in The Woodlands. It just paid agreed to pay Houston a ton of money to be allowed to incorporate as its own town. Since the money is coming from my tax dollars and HOA dues, I feel that The Woodlands might be getting a little too generous with my money...

Attention Spam

Posted on May 29, 2008
It is a condition that I believe I am suffering from more and more both in my case analysis and in my practice wants. I have attempted to build a highly niche practice to avoid it, but I have been trying to adventure out a little of late. Attention spam is a condition resulting in a failure to process facts or comprehend common knowledge, due largely to having a mind full of useless information...

Should You Be Using Credit Cards In Your Practice?

Posted on May 27, 2008
I do not think so. That is why I refuse to have a credit card. First, they encourage you to spend in ways that is not health, and to buy extravagances. Second, we all know the tricks credit card providers play to make money off you that you do not suspect and which only make your situation worse...

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I Just Love Texas

Posted on May 27, 2008

Too Often Today's Kids Do Not Understand The Hardships That We Lived Under

Posted on May 26, 2008

Don't Eat Your Desk

Posted on May 26, 2008
I like The Onion and its parodies.

Staycation

Posted on May 26, 2008
Texas changed the law about when schools should start in August starting last year. Now schools have to start later so parents and kids can have their late August vacations. The problem is that in the past schools typically let out for the summer beginning on the start of the Memorial holiday weekend...

I Am Listening To Ella And Satchmo Today - Summertime

Posted on May 26, 2008

Three Keys To Law Firm Marketing

Posted on May 26, 2008
Over at Content for Reprint I found an article The Rainmaker Institute, which upon reading I found to basically true and helpful. The article is more in depth that what I write hear, but the principals are universal in network and relationship marketing if you want this practice to work...

Early Nerd Special

Posted on May 25, 2008
I do not know what comes over me sometimes. Things just pop into my head and I repeat them when I know I probably should not. One is a term those younger than me like to use today - Early Nerd Special. It means the midnight showing on the day of release of a highly-anticipated film, which is typically a science-fiction or fantasy film...

FREE Blogs?

Posted on May 24, 2008
Oh dear. This is going to get me in trouble with someone I deeply respect. But, Susan Cartier Liebel is offering FREE blogs at Solo Practice University? Now I do not mean to pick, but I guess I am a little bit of a gadfly. I know what Susan means. She means that the blogs are without expense or money to you...

The $100 Million Dollar Man

Posted on May 24, 2008
CNNMoney reviewed what it might cost to build the $6 Million Man, who was played on TV by Lee Majors in 1974 in today's dollars. It is a strange comparison because there really was not a $6 Million Man in 1974. There was only just an estimate of what it would take to put Lee Major's back together as one if it were possible...

Have A Good Memorial Day Weekend

Posted on May 24, 2008
But, while we are out shopping, traveling or just relaxing let's try to remember for a few minutes what the holiday represents.

Inspiration And Blogging

Posted on May 24, 2008

Fear Of Marketing

Posted on May 23, 2008
As I have said in the past, F.E.A.R. is an acrostic which stands for FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL. But, to most lawyers, if it appears real, then it is real, and if it is real in this sense they will not act against the false evidence. Could you imagine being in the building trade and having an unrealistic fear of nails...

For My Girlfriend - My Everything

Posted on May 21, 2008
Do you all remember Barry White?

Do Not Take The LSAT Unprepared

Posted on May 21, 2008
If you are thinking about applying to law schools for the Fall 2009 or Winter 2009 class (for the limited number of law schools that take students mid year), it is best not to go into the test cold. The LSAT might very well not test learned knowledge, but that does not mean it is unstructured or that you cannot prepare for the exam...

Ring! Ring! Goes The Social Media Tool Most Overlooked

Posted on May 21, 2008
I like John Jantsch's Duct Tape Marketing, and now he reminds us that the telephone is a social media tool as well. Talking about the forgotten telephone might just be getting back to basics. I am not so sure about all of the requests I get from all of the social networking sites, or how effective they are or might be in getting business...

Money And Clients. Answer To A Prayer Or Temptation Of The Devil?

Posted on May 21, 2008
A stranger stopped into an open church for a few minutes of quiet contemplation and found a wallet full of money in the pew in front of him. Since no one else was in the church, the question popped into his mind - Was this a temptation of the devil, or the answer to a prayer? And so I think is the question that most new Third Wavers ask themselves when a new client walks in the door as well...

Diana Krall - Fly Me To The Moon

Posted on May 20, 2008
If this does not put you in a good mood, I do not know what will.

Homes Are Biggest Bargain Since 2004

Posted on May 20, 2008
According to CNNMoney with substantial lower pricing on homes around the nation, home price affordability has improved in many cities. 53.8% of all new and existing homes sold nationwide during the first three months of 2008 were affordable to families earning the median household income of $61,500, according to the latest Housing Opportunity Index released Tuesday by Wells Fargo and the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)...

Pouring Whiskey

Posted on May 19, 2008
Just a little back story first. Not long ago I was at the supermarket getting ready for a get together, and my wife and I bought a big jug of red wine. While checking out the kid bagging the groceries exclaimed, "That is the biggest bottle of wine I have ever seen"...

Do My Eyes Decieve Me - ABC Lists Blogging As A Painful Profession

Posted on May 19, 2008
I am a blogger, so that must make me a daredevil, a risk taker, a person will to jeopardizes my health and safety for the sake of a profession. Indiana Jones must have nothing on me. You can check it out for yourselves. ABC News lists blogging as one of the top 10 Painful Professions...

14 Tons Of Double-Stuffed Oreos

Posted on May 19, 2008
... Now, that requires a lot of milk. Apparently, in or around Morris, Illinois, about 50 miles southwest of Chicago, a trailer loaded with 14 tons of double-stuffed Oreos overturned, spilling the cookies into the median and roadway. The driver of the truck was traveling from Chicago when he fell asleep at the wheel and slammed into the median...

Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart In San Francisco

Posted on May 19, 2008
Start you day off with a little Tony.

Law Schools Of North Carolina

Posted on May 18, 2008
North Carolina is rich in southern charm and history. Maybe it is for this reason or that the recent presidential primaries just drew my attention to the state, but it has a lot of law schools - a lot of good law schools - from which to chose. You should check them out...

Code

Posted on May 18, 2008
I have been communicating with several different lawyers of late who are in the process of, or who wish to start, new practices. They write me because they are interested in my blog and in my method of practice. I have noticed a trend, however. They start down this road of practice because they see the utility of it, but then they talk themselves out of it based upon that imaginary client they are after...

I Hate To Whine ...

Posted on May 16, 2008
According to the AP wire, Robert Mondavi of Robert Mondavi Winery has died. He was 94, which goes to show you the wonderful effects of drinking red wine. I like Mondavi's story because he was 52 in 1966, when he opened his winery that would help turn Napa Valley into a world center of the industry, demonstrating that us old codgers to make a difference...

Art As A Niche

Posted on May 16, 2008
I am always interested in what other lawyers do, and I am always on the look out for interesting niches. You know the ones? Those that they do not discuss much in law school. That is why I found interesting the launch by LexBlog of the Art Law Blog of Fox Rothchild...

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