I too received the comment to which Dave responded. And, I too, promised to say a little bit about the state of the legal job market. Although I think Dave is correct that many others write about this issue quite well, I also note that we have posted several pieces about legal education and shifts i...

Although it came highly recommended there were a number of things that I found didn’t resonate for me in Deconstructing the First Year: How Law School Experiences Lead to Misunderstandings of What Lawyers Do at the blog called “clinicians with not enough to do.” I do think almost a...

A commentator to another thread chided me for our blog's relative lack of focus on the rapidly imploding law employment market. We have given sporadic attention to this topic since the pace of law firm layoffs has accelerated. Instead, as the commentator noted, we've been generally focused on our us...

Nobody likes to think about their death or disability, but you’ve got family, employees and clients who rely on you. What will they do if you become disabled or pass away unexpectedly? Put a plan in place now to protect those you may leave behind. My friends and fellow practice management advi...

I may owe an apology to any of you that received a rash of posts from this blog to their RSS reader this weekend.  I am so sorry. On Friday I was performing routine maintenance and adding a plugin…and the blog crashed (being sent into an non-ending loop).  It crashed so hard that I couldn...

My initial reaction to this question is usually -- NONE.I get these questions from time to time, and usually more around the first of a year when lawyers are changing law firms and going out on their own.Certainly there are times to partner up or incorporate out, but I much prefer the KISS principal...

Project Gutenberg has released Pleasantries of English Courts and Lawyers: A Book about Lawyers , by John Cordy Jeaffreson, originally published in London in 1875. (The book has been variously available over the years, last published by Hein in 1974.) Gutenberg makes the book available for downloadi...

The concept of solicitor-client privilege goes back at least 400 years in the common law, and is one of the most well established concepts of privilege in our legal system. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was recently caught listening and recording conversations with Mohamed Zeki M...

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. - Master Yoda, P.C., C.J.C. In this award-winning 2006 film produced in cooperation with the CBC, Steel Toes tells the story of a neo-Nazi living in Montreal.  He viciously attacks an Indian immigr...

10-Things-Lawyers-Can-Do-Today-In-Web-2 - Jaffe. As you might imagine, I get a lot of email from P.R. people, touting the latest and greatest software or gadget for the legal profession. I love trying out new stuff, and telling other lawyers what I think. When I got a P.R. blurb from a representativ...