At last week’s Off the Clock #6, we got into a very interesting discussion about the number of solo and small firm attorneys (and perhaps big firm attorneys) who are competing with online “legal service” outfits such as LegalZoom, Nolo, and LawDepot.com. An interesting experiment came out of that discussion, namely I agreed to buy …
Don’t Right Click This Post
The Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility has been busy with its opinions in the last year, amending two prior opinions, proposing and approving two new opinions, and proposing a third new opinion that is currently open for comment. The two relatively new opinions cover the use of the term “& Associates” in a firm’s …
Short but Comprehensive
Recently I was in a meeting with a group of attorneys reviewing two proposed addenda to a contract. One was very detailed – contained definitions, covered all possible contingencies and outcomes. Its sheer length and complexity made it more difficult to follow. The second was much shorter thus easier to understand and addressed only the …
Ciao, Italia
As Nancy or Andrea told you, I was gone and off the map in January. I was in Italy playing house husband to my wife and father to my kids while my wife taught a St. Olaf College art history course in Florence. Now, before you think my days were filled with leisurely lunches of …
Write Like You Learned Something in High School
Judge Kressel has an article in this month’s Illinois Bar Journal explaining why and how he developed “Order Preparation Guidelines” for the local bankruptcy bar. I had read them when he first issued them and upon rereading, I was once again struck with the reasonableness of what he is asking – in short, he is …