Due to our SEO efforts, it is not uncommon for potential clients to call us multiple times about the same case. They don’t keep notes, so they don’t have any record of who they have called. They just move to the next Google search result, and start dialing. I have no problem with that. In…
Law Practice Tip: Using the HP Envy 120 Printer
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…
Loving the Practice of Law
God I love the practice of law. Oh, it can certainly suck at times, but there are not too many other professions that pay you for an intellectual pursuit. Being a chemical or biological researcher is probably intellectually stimulating as well, but that lacks the dueling aspect. Metaphorically, I suppose, a researcher looking for a…
Best Client Call of the Week
I’m not a Karen; don’t you dare call me a Karen. Sometimes I think we are all in the Matrix, sleeping in our goo filed tubes, controlled by a computer with a warped sense of humor. Stuff like this just could not happen in a real world. You’ve probably heard the term “Karen.” I don’t…
Three Lessons Learned from an Afternoon of Oral Argument
I attended my first video conference oral argument in front of the Court of Appeal today. It was a bit surreal. Normally oral argument is such an austere process, with four robbed justices walking in at the assigned time and taking their seats (only three of them hear any particular case). But with Covid-19 and…
Best Client Email of the Week
I once had an attorney – an attorney! – who came to consult with me about her own personal case. She was laying out the facts to me, but the case was full of holes. I was asking the obvious questions about the glaring problems with her case, when she stood up and ended the…
Worst Judge of the Month
I’ve written here before about how you can never assume a judge knows anything about civil litigation. I’m not necessarily saying that in a pejorative sense; it may just be that the judge has only a transactional legal background, or previously worked on the criminal side. I ran into another one of those judges who…
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…
Never Overestimate your Judge or Justice
A recent visit to the Court of Appeal added another war story to the ever lengthening list of examples of why an attorney should never overestimate judges and justices, who sometimes don’t understand the most basic of concepts. But first, a little context. I wrote an article on the wonders of using speech-to-text voice dictation…
Fiverr.com – Your Low Cost Personal Assistant [UPDATED]
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…