December marks a particularly stressful time of year. You may be anxious to tackle your professional to-do list before making plans with family, finishing up last-minute holiday shopping and ringing in the New Year. In order to get everything accomplished…
As clients demand further cost certainty from their attorneys, it appears that offers of alternative fee arrangements (which I am defining here, generally, as non-billable hour models) are beginning to affect law firm choice . Certainly, there are a number…
Malpractice claims against attorneys are on the rise. According to the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Lawyers' Professional Liability, from 2008 to 2011, malpractice claims rose thirty percent. Real estate, personal injury, and family law rank as the highest…
Emotional health and self-esteem are inextricably linked. So let me ask you a simple question: Do you value yourself? Right now, right this moment. Is it different from how you felt about yourself yesterday or a month ago? Do you…
(It’s not every day I use an exclamation point to punctuate a blog post title, right? This is probably important.) My list of life’s regrets looks something like this: (1) When I was in 2nd grade, I appended pictures to…
Over the last decade, online review sites have exploded, and consumers now factor online reviews heavily into their purchasing decisions. For the modern entrepreneur, online reviews are an unavoidable cost of doing business. So, What do you do when you…
Join in an 8-session series, "Managing Your Work Search Process," starting on December 3, 2013, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., at the Massachusetts Bar Association, 20 West Street, Boston. This series is designed for lawyers between jobs, dealing with a layoff, or…
LinkedIn, the social network of choice for lawyers and other mature individuals everywhere, offers two major endorsement options to users. The first is a written endorsement, where one user will compose a testimonial about another user (either of their own…
At Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers we think a lot about how attorneys can effectively deal with stress which, unfortunately, is almost an inevitable part of our working life. I was pleased to see a post written by the professionals at…
This October, I had the opportunity to attend the premier event for Mac lawyer fanatics: MILOfest. If you don't know MILO, you should. MILO stands for “Macs in the Law Office” and serves as a popular listserv for Mac…