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February 23, 2016October 19, 2017Enemy In The Camp

Good Smart Promising or Best Practice?

Rather than best practice, my law firm was really hodgepodge. Most of my practices, I adopted from attorneys I worked for. I copied several practice forms from a “Bridge the Gap” continuing legal education course. I changed a sentence or two in my forms as I bumped into cases that suggested a change. When a problem […]

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February 18, 2016October 19, 2017Speaker

A Written Agreement – Most of What You Are is What You Aren’t

A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. -Samuel Goldwyn You may win in court even though you failed to reduce your agreement to writing. Even so, the best practice is to reduce your agreement to writing. In most situations, written agreements do an excellent job of clarifying what everyone’s duties are. In […]

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February 8, 2016October 24, 2017Enemy In The Camp, Speaker

Hire an Accounting Superhero and Get Saved

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility – Uncle Ben An Attorney Superpower Almost every study shows that the legal industry has been slow to embrace technology. That is understandable. Traditional methods have been working for over a century, why change? Even in legal research, where technology flourishes, there are still landmines waiting for lawyers who […]

February 5, 2016October 19, 2017Speaker

In The Real World Things Don’t Always Reconcile

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February 3, 2016February 7, 2016Speaker

Starting to Reconcile – Simple Steps of Bravery

Brave things do not simply occur. -Charlie Fowler I have the darndest time admitting that I don’t know something I ought to already know. I’m fine going to continuing education on new rules or some advanced technique. I’m not fine admitting that I don’t know – especially when I should. That’s why I was not […]

February 1, 2016October 21, 2017Speaker

Step By Step Guide to Attorney Trust Account Reconciliation

I would give my right arm for the simplicity on the far side of complexity. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. In the above quote, Holmes is observing what we have all observed at some point – that some things seem simpler than they are. Then when you actually try to do it – not so […]

January 28, 2016January 29, 2016Discuss

ABA Journal Confirms Legal Employment Shrinking

Today the ABA Journal reported a net decrease in new legal jobs in the United States over the next decade (2014 to 2024). These jobs would traditionally be filled by recent law school graduates who have been newly licensed.1 The ABA Journal went on to observe that even when positions created by lawyers leaving the […]

January 28, 2016January 29, 2016Enemy In The Camp

Unreconciled Accounting Data Is Worthless

January 26, 2016October 19, 2017Speaker

I Should Have Had This Simple Habit, Why in the World Didn’t I?

  It’s the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that. -Theodore Sturgeon I’ve never enjoyed the business side of business. Still don’t. The idea of putting down a case I am working on and picking up a bank statement to reconcile makes my butt itch.1 That is why I hired an office […]

January 19, 2016January 23, 2016Discuss

U.S. Legal Market is Shifting. Are You Shifting With It?

As I have been preparing to present Enemy in The Camp, a continuing legal education course, I have had an opportunity to talk with attorneys across the United States. Many of them have a concern that the legal market itself is shrinking. The feeling may be right. A recent study of the legal market found that […]

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