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A Divorce Lawyer’s Plea to Mothers
Mothers, PLEASE do not raise a spoiled, entitled, pampered, undisciplined, whiny, petulant, controlling son! Because, when he grows up, he is just going to have to deal with me. I have encountered a string of adult spoiled brats. They tell their wives what she is going to do, use various forms of coercion and blackmail,… View Article
Two Tips : Time Billing and Resources
Finding time for two blogs is an interesting challenge, but mostly it is a hectic summer, with lots of mowing, a stormy week without power, and daylights savings time that has slowed down the posts. 1. My method for keeping track of my time billing is hardly state of the art, but it works for… View Article
Dominos or Popcorn – Does It Matter?
A week or so, I posted a Facebook note about Stockton Ca., the first city of its size to file for bankruptcy and opined that it is the first domino and that others will fall because of the combo of the financial meltdown of 2008 and the massive retirements of baby boomers, and of course,… View Article
Two Examples of a Society in Decline
Thoughts from a curmudgeon: 1. My wife and I watch 4 evening news shows back to back to back to back. 2. Thus, we know every laxative, sex aid, adult diaper, and pain medication on the market. The Shingles medication people apparently want us to buy that medicine even before we contract the disorder. 3…. View Article
Why Does My Lawyer Act The Way He Does?
1. I am going to post to my FB professional page an e-mail thread of a discussion of my Linked In A.B.A. “Family Law Marketing” group. The discussion actually began “off topic” when someone repeated the question of a client, “How can I get my lawyer to call me back?” 2. What followed, I believe,… View Article
Are We Headed to Armageddon?
I just posted this to FB. Just a few thoughts after a “powerless, phone-less” week-end in the “high 90’s”. The thread of (Lewis County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney) Brian Bailey’s post echo’ed something I thought of. Our three sons and their families are “roughing in in the N.C. Mountains”. They will have a great time. And,… View Article
Why Won’t My Lawyer Call Me Back?
The title above was a question posed by someone on my Linked In Family Law Marketing group. I tried to give a concise response, but it turned into this article. If your lawyer has not developed a effective way to keep lines of communication with you, perhaps you have the wrong lawyer. My technique may… View Article
More About Organizing Your Case.
Every case shares something in common. Each requires the gathering and organizing of information. The first source of that information is the client. My first attempt at writing on this subject, “Something Constructive, How to Organize the Facts in Your Case, may be found at http://tinyurl.com/79y69ge . Why am I writing about this again? Because it… View Article
Another Victory in the Tech Revolution – Dictation
Two or three years ago when David Duffield of the Duffield Law Firm (including tech whizzes Chad Lovejoy and Jason Stemple) taught his seminar on how his firm weathered a tragic fire without missing a client appointment or a hearing, I learned from him that Dragon Naturally Speaking, of which I had been an unhappy… View Article
Technology Review
Those for whom James Gleick’s book Information is too long or daunting, or who cannot find a Latham’s Quarterly on “Communication” at their news stand, may enjoy Technology Review, Published by M.I.T. to be just the ticket. It helps put into perspective the massive changes that are changing, daily, the lives of people inhabiting planet earth in the 21st century…. View Article