NOTE: Hard to believe I originally posted this article seven years ago, but I checked and this great printer – the Hp Envy 120 – is still available on Amazon, through third-party sellers. I ended up with two of these, I liked the form factor so much, but ultimately replaced the one in the conference…
Category: Starting Your Own Law Firm
Law Office Software of the Month — BatteryBar Pro (and it’s FREE!)
Here is a great little laptop battery utility I have been testing. I found it so essential, that it’s now on all my laptops. Windows offers an icon that can show you the percentage of charge left in your laptop battery. I feel like it will also give an estimate of the time remaining on…
Don’t be that Attorney – Ten Ways to Make Yourself Look Foolish
I’ve had this article in mind for quite some time. I see attorneys make the same mistakes over and over, and I thought by posting an article listing those mistakes, I would have a place to send them to explain, in the nicest possible terms, that they are making themselves look like idiots. The article…
Why this Lawyer Loves His Apple Watch — Top 9 Favorite Benefits
I seem to have this need to date myself, but I will confess that my love affair with smart watches actually started back in the 1990s, with my Seiko Message Watch (shown above). It was basically a pager, but it could show text messages from my office and family, along with stock prices, sports scores,…
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…
Flat Fee Arrangements Promote a Winning Practice
Flat fee arrangements are amazingly liberating. Most of my fellow litigators won’t take a case on a flat fee, either because they are concerned that they will grossly underestimate the time the case is going to take and end up with an effective hourly rate of $25, or simply because they think they’ll make more…
The Definitive Guide to Starting Your Own Law Firm . . . Is Here!
My series on starting your own law firm is now live! This site is devoted to the practice of law, but the companion site — YourOwnLawFirm.com — deals primarily with law firm marketing. This series is in response to all of you who wrote to say, “You know, Aaron, that law firm marketing stuff is…
Why I Love Being a Lawyer — Taking Bank of America to the Woodshed
In case you missed it, there was a video posted on YouTube a few years back, consisting of a music video entitled “United Breaks Guitars.” Singer, songwriter Dave Carroll was sitting in a United Airlines plane while his beloved Taylor guitar was being loaded in the luggage compartment. He looked out and saw the baggage…
My Experience with Stephen Fairley and The Rainmaker Institute
The Rainmaker Institute, headed by Stephen Fairley, is a law firm marketing “school” of sorts, where you can learn how to promote your firm primarily with Internet marketing. I’ve never attended one of the paid “Retreats” offered by The Rainmaker Institute, but on two occasions I have attended MCLE functions such as the California Solo and…