If you have not yet experienced the joy that is Fiverr.com, you are in for a real treat. Fiverr is the world’s largest online marketplace for $5 services, with weird services such as “I will write any message on my lips and take a photo” or “I will make fun of someone in my stand-up…
Category: Practice of Law
How to Use Speech-to-Text Dictation for a Quantum Leap in Efficiency [UPDATED]
A deep dive into speech-to-text dictation. I finally removed the small impediment that was preventing me from fully implementing speech-to-text dictation, and I have realized a quantum leap in efficiency as a result. You owe it to yourself and your clients to take a few minutes to read this article, in order to see the…
How Content Marketing and SEO Overlap
“Content marketing has seen a surge in popularity in recent years. This often prompts the tired old claim that SEO is dead of course. It isn’t, but it has had to adapt and evolve to suit the modern web just as other disciplines – such as web design – have had to. Now, good SEO…
An Amazing Way to Proofread your Legal Documents
It’s probably a leftover from my days on law review and later as a magazine editor, but I cannot stand to see typos, whether I created the document or not. Especially bad is when I call up a document I have used previously to, say, draft a demurrer, and I find a typo, meaning that…
Don’t Be That Attorney — Misstating Record on Appeal
As reported elsewhere, we received a very satisfying verdict of more than $1.5 million resulting from a defamatory email sent by a defendant, concerning our client. The defendant did not go silently into the good night, and appealed the verdict, claiming that there was insufficient evidence to support an award of that size. That’s all…
Best Client Call of the Week
A potential client called about a breach of contract action she wants to pursue. The caller does not live in California, and for reasons not important to the story, it is not feasible to sue the defendant where he resides. The caller was intending to move back to California, and wanted to know if the…
Putting the “Alternative” Back in Alternative Dispute Resolution
A recent settlement victory showed me once again that you can achieve amazing results at a mediation if you never lose sight of the fact that you are unrestrained by any “negotiating rules”, even if (or perhaps especially because) no one else in the room understands that to be the case. Most who attend a…
Best Client Call of the Week
Many attorneys find it to be a quaint concept, or pretend not to understand, but at Morris & Stone we will only represent a client if we are on the right side, which we define as the party who should win if justice is done. We learned long ago that the practice of law is…
Of course it’s a “self-serving declaration”! Why else would I file it?!
If you lose a motion and rail against the stupidity of the judge, that’s just viewed as sour grapes. But today I was in court for a hearing, and it was the case BEFORE mine that raised my hackles, so I can rant with impunity. (And yes I won my motion, so this isn’t indirect…
Using the Internet to Educate (and Intimidate) the Opposition
I will say up front that I have no empirical data to show you regarding this strategy, but it came up in a case I just handled, and I wanted to share it with you. As I will discuss in a moment, on a number of occasions opposing counsel has quoted my articles back to…