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Preparing Your Client for Deposition – Part 9
Picking up from the last post, additional rules of the road for your client for her deposition: 16. When asked about a document, ask for it and take the time to read it before answering any questions...
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QR Code Business Cards
Consider adding a QR (“quick response”) code to your business card. A QR code is a two-dimensional bar code that is easily scanned using a mobile phone that has a QR code scanning application (more...
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Maximizing Your Presentation
You’ve been asked to make a presentation at a voluntary bar association conference on recent legal trends on non-compete agreements. The presentation goes well and the audience enjoyed your talk and...
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Keeping Perspective
When faced with a crisis or a tough decision, it is easy to lose your head and make a rash decision. The trick, as Kipling said, is to keep your head when all those about you are losing theirs. If you...
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Preparing Your Client for Deposition – Part 10
Additional rules of the road for your client for her deposition: 31. Don’t take notes during your deposition. The interrogator will you ask you about them. 32. Be careful of questions that use...
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Preparing Your Client for Deposition – Part 11
When preparing a corporate client for deposition, conduct one of the meetings at the corporate representative’s office. You want to see the office first hand, see how they conduct business and see...
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Preparing Your Client for Deposition – Part 12
There’s little more unnerving than watching a client being asked about a regulation, rule or procedure with which he should be familiar but that he has never seen before. It’s your job to ensure that...
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Preparing Your Client for Deposition – Part 12
Notices of deposition directed to corporate parties often ask for the person with the most knowledge regarding a given topic or series of topics. Choosing the right person from the company to answer...
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Preparing Your Client for Deposition – Part 14
When an attorney notices your client for video deposition, he is planning on making your client look bad and showing it to the jury. Your job is to make her look good on video. To do that: 1. Ensure...
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Be Part of the Conversation
Activities like blogging, writing articles, getting involved with voluntary bar associations and speaking at conferences may not directly translate into new business or new clients, but it does make...
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Landing an Attorney Position – Law Student Edition -Part 2
6) Intern. You want to get experience while in law school and you want to meet attorneys and build relationships with them. If you can’t get a paying job as a law clerk, intern. 7) Volunteer. Join...
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Landing an Attorney Position – Law Student Edition – Part 3
11) Drop names. As you get more involved in the legal community attending functions or volunteering, you’ll develop relationships. As you do, ask for permission to drop the attorney’s name in your...
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Landing an Attorney Position – Law Student Edition – Part 4
16) Grab a cup of coffee. Offer an attorney you know a coffee break at a local Starbucks and pick her brain for five minutes for job searching advice, including possible leads. 17) Personalize your...
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Turning 40
Tomorrow, October 8th, I turn 40. Seems time goes by faster these days. How is it already October? How am I already 40? I’ve learned my share of life lessons, but one of the most important is not to...
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Landing an Attorney Position – Associate Edition -Part 1
You’ve recently been laid off from your law firm. Now what? Consider the following suggestions to land on your feet. 1) Reach out to friends. E-mail your law school friends, friends from your former...
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Picking the Right Mentor
How do you become a great lawyer? Study one. Watch what he does. Listen to what he says. They are great because of what they do and you can become great by emulating them. But how do you choose the...
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Virtual Mentor
In the last several posts, I have discussed the importance of having a mentor. Consider supplementing your real world mentor with a virtual mentor. There are sites like this out there for law students...
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Calender of Events
Getting out of the office and meeting people face to face and developing relationships with them is key to your business development as an attorney. But where to go? Attending too many events or the...
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Holiday Cards
It’s time to start thinking about holiday cards. You say it’s too early? You’re still shopping for a Halloween costume for that masquerade party? Well, I take my lead from Walgreens. If when I go in...
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State or Federal Court?
Whether plaintiff or defendant, ask yourself where your client is better off – state or federal court? In federal court, motions for summary judgment come more readily. The non-moving party bears the...
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