Practice Management

I Am Not Sure Why I Did Not Make Time Magazine's List Of Least Influential Americans

Posted on April 27, 2008
It is really hard to say how this happened. I work out of my home. I do not have any staff. I write a blog that a few read but the advice of which nobody follows. Heck, my beagle, Mandy, will not even listen to me. All I can do is promise that I will work harder at continuing to decrease my profile and influence until I can make this list...

Of Football Coaches And Law School Deans

Posted on April 27, 2008
Do you think that a person interviewing for the job of a football coach every goes into the interview explaining that he does not care if the team is the number one team in the country? I seriously doubt a potential NFL coach can interview with a team and not talk about his plans to take the team to the Super Bowl in just a few years...

Baylor University Law School

Posted on April 26, 2008
Smack dab in the middle of Texas in the smaller, away from the big city, Waco (pronouned with a long 'A' sound and not a short 'a' sound), not far from George Bush country (Crawford), sits an outstanding little law school on the Baptist campus of Baylor University...

Important Information For All Of You Lawyers Who Just Cannot Make Yourselves Give Up Commuting In Traffic

Posted on April 26, 2008

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So Much Work To Do This Friday And This Weekend, This Pretty Much Represents How I Feel

Posted on April 25, 2008

The Sweet Leaf Tea Lesson On Marketing

Posted on April 25, 2008
I was reading an article in the Austin Business Journal about Sweet Leaf Tea and its marketing lesson, and I wondered how that can be adapted to legal marketing. Sweet Leaf Tea is one of the fastest-growing makers of ready-to-drink iced teas and sells its products on a national level through grocery chains such as Whole Foods Market, Kroger and Safeway...

What Does How You Sleep Suggest The Type Of Lawyer You Are?

Posted on April 24, 2008
What is your preferred sleep position, and what does this say about you as a person and a lawyer? I am not sure I buy all of this but Janet Kinosian recently posted about this on HuffPo. She reviews the prevailing wisdom about what position you take when you fall off to sleep says about you as a person...

Dull Jobs Numb The Mind

Posted on April 23, 2008
... Sorry ... where was I ... um, I was saying ... oh yeah ... According to an article on BBC News, boring jobs turn our minds to autopilot or rest mode, whether we like it or not, which foreshadows mistakes. So you real estate closing attorneys take head...

Hillary Clinton Now Leads In The Popular Vote

Posted on April 23, 2008
The Obama camp and the old media can distort numbers any way they want, but the truth now remains, according to The Fact Hub, that Hillary Clinton's decisive victory in Pennsylvania leaves more people having voted for her than Barack Obama. According to Real Clear Politics, Hillary Clinton has received 15,095,662 votes to Barack Obama's 14,973,720, a margin of 120,000 votes...

How to Arrange An Office Desk Ergonomically

Posted on April 23, 2008
This does seem so simple, but straight on is the best way to organize a monitor and keypad.

Love The Lincoln Commercial And The Work At Home Dad

Posted on April 23, 2008

Election Reform

Posted on April 23, 2008
Yeah it matters to solos, carpet commuters, Third Wavers and all attorneys because in this day of cheap tech our current system is antiquated and wrong.

A Palace Of Pain

Posted on April 23, 2008
These are the stories that you must wonder about. According to the Dallas Business Journal the Dallas office of the Washington, D.C. based law firm Patton Boggs has leased 114,000 square feet, or 4 and a half stories, of a new class A office space in Uptown Dallas, off downtown...

The World's Youngest Billionaires

Posted on April 22, 2008
The ranks of which I will probably never join, Forbes profiles the youngest billionaires in the World today. I guess we should not gloat that our billionaires are be best, but what I observed in viewing the profiles of the World's youngest billionaires is that all of them from all other countries obtained their money through inheritance, whereas all of the young billionaires of the United States made the money themselves...

The Fear Of Disposing Of Paper

Posted on April 22, 2008
I have received several emails of late, and one in particular and on point, concerning what I might describe as the fear of disposing of paper. Fear might be an over-exaggeration, but many of you know what I mean. You are scanning documents, saving files online or on DVDs, cutting down on paper, but feel apprehensive about disposing of originally signed documents, such as retainer agreements and settlement documents...

What Goes Around, Comes Around

Posted on April 21, 2008
Do you not have a favorable opinion of e Moms at Home changing to Sparkplugging and abandoning its loyal audience? If so, you can read my comments on this at Home Office Warrior.

Wo! Money Does Buy Happiness? Man, Did I Make A Wrong Turn.

Posted on April 18, 2008
Now I figure out why I have been miserable all of these years. The old wives tell that money does not buy happiness is wrong. In fact, money can buy happiness according to an article in Wall Street Journal Bog. The WSJ looks at the findings of two economists from the University of Pennsylvania who conclude money does indeed bring happiness, even if it doesn?t guarantee it...

America's Fastest Dying Industries

Posted on April 17, 2008
Forbes presents us with a pictorial of America's Fastest-Dying industries. Most of them have been terribly affected by the Internet, telecom and social changes. Most of them you will find obvious like newspapers and publishing, and pay phones. Other might not be so obvious, such as bowling alleys (no longer cool as it was when I was younger), laundromats, beer production (the market is not dying so much as it is saturated), arcades (you can play cool games now at home), tobacco farming (although it is scoffed at, there are still a lot of people smoking), and DVD rental (can...

This Pretty Much Describes My Beagle Mandy

Posted on April 17, 2008
Come to think of it, this pretty much describes and defines me and most other lawyers as well.

It Is A Dilemma We All Face

Posted on April 17, 2008

The Best Law School In Houston? Let Us Compare.

Posted on April 16, 2008
Let me qualify what I am about to say by stating that you need to attend the law schools at which you get accepted. You can succeed at any law school, but each do have their qualities and preferences. If you are considering law school, and you want to judge your chances, you cannot ignore Houston, Texas as the place for your legal education...

Maybe You Should Tell Some Law Schools To Take Their Rankings And Shove Them ...

Posted on April 16, 2008
We all know lawyers who planned big only to be disenfranchised by the size of the obligations they ran up. That is nowhere more true than choosing an overpriced law school because of the image that you believe it reflects due to its U.S. News rankings...

Online Certified Mail

Posted on April 15, 2008
Lyndon Johnson use to pound on his desk and exclaim, "I hate war"! Well, I am here to tell you that this Texan hates mail. Apart from the fact that I have become good friends with many of the postal workers over the years, I do not like going to the post office...

Why Beautiful Women Marry Less Attractive Men

Posted on April 14, 2008
I have never really wondered why my wife chose to marry me, go to law school with me, have four children with me, and practice with me in our secluded home office. After all, we all know that Ziggy is the ideal look for which most women are looking, and I have those very desirable quality...

Buyer Beware! Regional Law Schools May Offer A Better Value?

Posted on April 14, 2008
Are Ivy League schools overrated? The answer might be generally no, but I do not believe they produce better students than many good regional law schools. And, often good regional schools produce comparable lawyers at a lower cost to the student. I was once up against a trial lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law...

Insurance Companies Stink!

Posted on April 14, 2008
The Third Wave practice of law has many, many advantages, but health insurance is not one of them. I would say that it is the bane of our existence, but the truth of the matter is that it is becoming the bane of everyone existence in life. I already pay a ton of money for the worst kind of coverage, and it is likely to get worse...

Do Not Make This Real Estate Mistake

Posted on April 14, 2008
An article in HuffPo detailed an Associated Press-AOL Money & Finance Poll, which found that more that 60% of the respondents said they definitely would not buy a home in the next two years, which was up from 53% from the previous year. More interestingly, just 11% are certain or very likely to buy a house soon, which is down 15% from two years ago...

How To Avoid The Upcoming Credit Crunch

Posted on April 12, 2008
A credit crunch is keenly visible to a law firm. Things start going bad for vendors and landlords and cell phone companies, and gas companies, and utilities, and banks, and employees, and most everybody around you. The crunch is not so dramatic as it might appear on TV, but it is real...

What Are Your Soft Skills?

Posted on April 11, 2008
I am really one of the lucky ones. Big Law probably does not want me. Not only am I too old and too fat, but I probably do not have the hard skills that pop off the page on a résumé. I graduated from Bob's Really Big Law School (formally Fred's). That for one is not a good start...

Law Schools Of The Pacific States

Posted on April 11, 2008
The American West is a big place, but an important part of it is what is known as the Pacific States of Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, and Hawaii. Of these states Alaska has no law school. Hawaii only has one law school, and California has most of the choices...

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