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Law Marketing/Networking

Why I Hate Norm Pattis

May 14, 2010 Law Marketing/Networking

I first learned Norm Pattis’ lousy, stinking name through Scott Greenfield, who often uses something Pattis has written as the launching point for one of his own entries.  And Greenfield writes about Pattis in reverential terms you don’t often see on Simple Justice.
So what does Scott Greenfield know anyway?
Mirriam Seddiq is more effusive in her [...]

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Starting Your Own Law Practice is a Leap of Faith

May 8, 2010 Law Marketing/Networking

In another lifetime, I wrote short stories. Five or six of these stories eventually found their way into obscure literary journals, with one or two still floating around somewhere on the Internet.  The largest circulation of any of the journals that published me was probably two or three thousand readers at the most.  With the [...]

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Overheard on Twitter

May 5, 2010 Law Marketing/Networking

Scott Greenfield: I’m way over my limit of followers.  The next three who twit will be arbitrarily unfollowed.
Norm Pattis: One.
Gideons Trumpet: (I realize the risk here, but . . . ) how is that arbitrary?
Gideons Trumpet: So. . . how was your day?
Scott Greenfield: Two.
Gideons Trumpet: Three.
Scott Greenfield: Stop trying to screw up my counting.
Norm [...]

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A Noobie on Twitter

April 28, 2010 Law Marketing/Networking

Yesterday I posted about my ambivalence on joining Twitter.  Today I joined.
Mark Bennett was the first person to welcome me.  Scott Greenfield was the second, and, true to form, his welcome consisted mostly of an admonition about the non-commercial purpose of Twitter. (This blog is apparently known for its marketing.) Windy Pundit and Mirriam Seddiq [...]

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On Blog Addiction and Twitter

April 27, 2010 Law Marketing/Networking

I get up most mornings at around 5:00 am and, shutting the door so that I don’t disturb my still-sleeping wife, step into my study off the master bedroom.  I have an hour until the gym opens, three hours until I need to drive my son to school.

First I check my email. Then I check [...]

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On Blonde Justice and Blogrolls

April 20, 2010 Law Marketing/Networking

Six months or so ago, I would have hardly known what a blogroll is. Today I am very honored to have been added to what must be one of the most coveted blogrolls in the criminal law blogosphere; namely, that of Blonde Justice.

You can hardly go anywhere in the blawgosphere without coming across Blonde Justice.  [...]

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On Free Consultations

April 15, 2010 Law Marketing/Networking

In an entry today called “Don’t Blame Clients For What Lawyers Do,” Scott Greenfield writes of the “huge rift” within the legal profession “between those desperately seeking business and those desperately seeking to provide clients with excellent representation.”  As an example of the lawyers on the “seeking business” side of the divide, he cites lawyers [...]

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The Voice of a Law Office

April 13, 2010 Law Marketing/Networking

A couple of weeks ago, I changed the message on my office voice mail.  My 19-year-old daughter had done the original recording, but, after listening to it back, we both agreed that her voice sounded too girlish.

So, instead, I asked my former sister-in-law if she could do it. I thought my sister-in-law’s British accent would [...]

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On Meeting Mark Bennett of Defending People

April 12, 2010 Law Marketing/Networking

In talking with another lawyer during my training in Houston, the other lawyer was surprised that I could know so much about the author of D.A. Confidential without being aware that he speaks with a British accent. That’s the thing about following a blog. You can find out an awful lot about the blog’s author [...]

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Disenchanted with Avvo

April 1, 2010 Law Marketing/Networking

My niece attended her first baseball game when she was four or five years old. After the first inning or so, she announced that she was done with baseball. I am done with Avvo.

As reflected on the ABA listserv for solo practitioners, Solosez, other lawyers seem to have all sorts of concerns about this legal networking [...]

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