April 15 is just around the corner; and, you know what that means: It’s again time to pay the taxman. One of two certainties of existence comes around again. But, if you opened your own law practice this year, you’re…
Last year at the Massachusetts Bar Association's Sole Practitioner & Small Firm Section Symposium, in the midst of a presentation about goal setting, I gave my audience a task: to write down three goals for the next week. The purpose of…
Did you just pass the bar exam? Congratulations! Now, then: I have some good news, and I have some bad news. Want the good news first? Okay. You’re a lawyer. Nice job, all the hard work has paid off. The…
Each year around this time, depending on when the flu is rampant, or when a blizzard strikes, we gather up, and (re)produce for you, what-we-believe-to-be our best posts for each month of the past year. This has become something of…
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…
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…
(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…
It used to be that no one was afraid of Virginia Woolf; so, it must have been that people were looking for something else to be afraid of; and, it appears that businesspeople have found their foil: the marketing plan,…
Since I’ve been at LOMAP, I have witnessed a decided shift in computing preferences: whereas, five years ago, most of the attorneys I talked to were PC users, now, more than half of the attorneys that I consult with use…
UPDATE: The Massachusetts Fee Agreement Best Practice Guide is available for FREE here. This resource was developed in 2018 by the working group we formed with the MBA. The original post written in 2013 is below. . . …