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…
Author: Aaron Morris
Lawyer App of the Month – Jotbox
It always seems to happen in the shower. I come up with a brilliant strategy for one of my cases or remember something that needs to be calendared. (I read once that there is actually some scientific basis for epiphanies in the shower, having to do with ions or something.) I need to get the…
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…
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I love e-books, and manage to go through four or five per week, mostly nonfiction. How do I go through so many books in a week? As I explain in more detail here, I use my Kindle’s text-to-speech function, cranked up to two or three times the normal speed (no, there is no chipmunk quality),…
How to Sign a PDF Without Printing and Scanning
So you’ve received a PDF document by email that you need to sign and return, or you’ve sent one to your client to sign. How do you accomplish that task? Do you print the PDF, sign the document, scan the document, and then email it? If you do, you are being unnecessarily inefficient. There is…
How To Get Back a Closed Tab
I might be the only one who does this, but I was very excited to learn this shortcut. When using Chrome (this also works for Internet Explorer and Firefox), I soon accumulate so many tabs across the top of the browser that I can’t tell what’s what. I then start closing tabs and occasionally realize…
Best Client Call of the Week
A “potential client” called this morning to discuss the case she has going in a foreign country. In order not to offend any of the residents of that country by repeating what she said, I won’t identify the country except to say that it is a small, non-English speaking country that I had to run…
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…