Today I was summoned to jury duty at the local Federal Court here in Greenville, South Carolina. While we were going through the motions this morning the judge said something very interesting that I really had never thought about, "there are really only two times the government requires your participation – military draft during [...]
Category Archives: Law
Lawyer Marketing: Be Genuiely Interested in Your Clients
I have been reading the classic Dale Carnegie book, "How to Win Friends and Influence People" recently and came across a line that really hit home to me. To paraphrase, it was the statement that you can make more friends in two months by being genuinely interested in people than you can in two [...]
British Barristers No Longer Wearing Wigs
Things are a’changin’ in the “Mother Land.” No longer will Brithish attorneys wear the classic wigs and wing collars during civil trials in England. The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Nicholas Phillips, has decided that judges and lawyers in civil cases will not wear the wigs any more. This ends a tradition in [...]
Four Hour Work Week?
I just finished reading the new book by Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week, where Mr. Ferriss talks about how he broke free from his job working crazy hours each day, sleeping under his cube at night, and never doing anything he wanted to the “job” of his dreams where he is able to manage a [...]
Do It On Your Own?
I recently read an article in Consumer Report’s Money Adviser magazine and it answered a question about whether someone should purchase will making software from the office supply store and create their own willl or should they spend the couple hundred bucks to have an attorney draft their will. Basically the article hit the high [...]
Come and Get “It”
   How is lawyer marketing and salesmanship similar to eBay? It is the “come and get ‘it’” attitude that most lawyers have regarding their services. But why not? We went to school for at least seven years (three long years of law school) to be able to bill by the hour and make a great [...]