Quicklegal, Inc. provides attorneys on demand via Facetime, video chat, voice call and instant messaging.1 For Consumer-Clients For the consumer-client, Quicklegal eliminates the wait. Using a smartphone, iPad or computer, the consumer-client visits Quicklegal and gets instant access to a wide variety of lawyers. The consumer-client avoids the hassle of setting an appointment and waiting for […]
The temptation is to conclude that, “I could never be an embezzlement victim.” Join the club. That is what most (if not all) embezzlement victims thought. It is worth re-considering though – the stakes are just too high not to. The embezzler has too many tools in his or her bag-of-tricks to think you are […]
If you join a couple of attorney friends for lunch (a table for three), one of the three of you will suffer symptoms of attorney depression at some time during their legal career. Identifying which attorney at your table may be suffering from depression is challenging. Symptoms of depression are often the character traits of […]
Whether your practice is solo, small, medium, or whether you are an associate or partner in a firm, all attorneys manage their own personal law practice. The organization you work for, or with, is not responsible for your personal law practice – you are. If your personal law practice does not grow into what you […]
When I hear people arguing about how secure cloud computing is, or isn’t, I chuckle a little (to myself). I never lost sleep worrying about how secure our computer server was. As a former Information Technology (IT) director, I made sure our systems were password protected and secure behind a firewall.1 I’d Been Locked Out […]
I am stumped. Every time I talk with a lawyer lately, they want to talk about lawyer advertising. It really gets my attention when I am travelling. It is certainly the first thing I see as I enter every city. Lawyer advertising on billboards appears often before the sign welcoming me to the city. Most […]
According to my wife, I work a lot. Mostly I agree with her. When we first married I worked in technology and it was common for me to work all day, all night and all the next day. I have had a couch in my office for years because I discovered that I can sleep […]
Inattentional Blindness Inattentional blindness is the failure to notice a fully-visible, but unexpected object because attention was engaged on another task, event, or object.1 Test a Friend Skeptical? Test a friend. Testing yourself won’t work because you are already aware that this is a split attention test. Knowing that, you will be more attentive to […]
The nagging question for me is the same as it was four years ago, “how could all of that happen and I didn’t see it?” If there was an invisible gorilla, how did I not see it? The complete answer is a moderately sized book. Here, however, is one method you can use to avoid […]
In Law Firms of Endearment, I wrote that “[f]or law firms, primary stakeholders are clients, benches, bars, clients, employees, suppliers, communities and partners.” A Law Firm of Endearment, however, “becomes a vehicle of service to every stakeholder group.”1 Clearly, the bench is a primary stakeholder for attorneys. This is easily discernable by considering what happens […]