Time Is Everything
In litigation, time — all kinds of it — does matter, whether it’s the minutes in a deposition, or the months it can take to develop a case.
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Your Adversaries Can Be Jerks. Deal With It.
Lawyers should get along. But we often don’t, and younger lawyers in particular need to learn that if they want to win, they cannot trust that their adversaries are doing the right thing.
Read MoreThe Debate Over Training for a Changing Profession
American jurisprudence is conservative by nature. Perhaps the most indicative of this conservatism is the rule of stare decisis which says – in simple terms – that if a judge decided a certain issue before in a certain way, then…
Read MorePay for Value, Not Effort: General Counsel Must Take This Opportunity to Move Away from the Billable Hour
In a vast majority of cases, the current standard of paying for lawyers based exclusively on the effort they devote to their work simply does not make sense. For general counsel, the recent economic crisis has put more pressure than…
Read MoreInvest in Your Business: Hire the Right Lawyer
Small business owners face myriad legal challenges – they need a good lawyer. But, unlike bigger companies, small businesses often lack the resources to hire in house counsel, let alone maintain an entire legal division. Yet, legal questions abound. How…
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