Law Marketing/Networking

Ode to Colin Samuels’ Mother

June 19, 2010 Criminal Law Bloggers

Back in the days when I tried to write fiction, my greatest aspiration was to get a short story into the Best American or O’Henry anthologies of best short stories for the year. Alas, I was never successful. No nominations. No honorable mentions. Not once. Not even close. Given my need for outside validation, I [...]

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On The Ethics of Blogging About A Client

June 15, 2010 Criminal Law Bloggers

I don’t own my cases, and they aren’t mine to write about. They belong to my clients, and my clients don’t want the worst experience of their lives strewn across the internet. I respect that, so I don’t kiss and tell. – Scott Greenfield, “Letting Go” While I consider myself an ethical person and [...]

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On Jon Katz, Texas Hold ‘Em, and Fantasy Football

May 31, 2010 Criminal Law Bloggers

Last week I had the pleasure of getting together for lunch with fellow D.C.-area lawyers/bloggers Mirriam Seddiq and Jon Katz. Regular readers of this blog know Seddiq very well, but may not know that Katz authors one of the most successful criminal law blogs out there, the Underdog blog. I envy his blogging experience and [...]

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Six Months Into A Solo Criminal Law Practice

May 17, 2010 Law Marketing/Networking

Mark Bennett and Brian Tannebaum both announced last week that they have been practicing criminal law for 15 years. While I have nowhere close to this level of experience, I recently celebrated an anniversary of my own. As of this past month, it has been six months since I opened my D.C. law office and [...]

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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 Criminal Law Bloggers

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 [...]

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A Noobie on Twitter

April 28, 2010 Criminal Law Bloggers

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 [...]

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On Blog Addiction and Twitter

April 27, 2010 Criminal Law Bloggers

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 [...]

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On Blonde Justice and Blogrolls

April 20, 2010 Criminal Law Bloggers

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 [...]

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