Law Marketing/Networking

On The Man I Love To Hate And Twitter

October 24, 2010 Criminal Law Bloggers

I admit it:  I am a closet reader of Scott Greenfield’s Simple Justice. A couple of months or so ago, I interpreted a couple of things Greenfield posted both here and on his own blog as unfairly critical of me and bloggers like me, and fired off a poison pen email to Greenfield. Since then, [...]

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On-Line Reputations and Bloggers Who Spam

September 28, 2010 Criminal Law Bloggers

Bloggers get all sorts of spam. Sometimes spammers use a compliment to get you to approve their comment:  “Terrific work!” someone tried to post on my site yesterday.  “This is the type of information that should be shared around the web.  Shame on the search engines for not positioning this post higher!”  Oh, so true! [...]

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What Lawyers Put In Their Biographies; What Clients Actually Look For

August 31, 2010 Humor

Courtesy of Matt Homann of the [non]billable hour:

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On the Traffic And Quality of a Website

August 18, 2010 Criminal Law Bloggers

Talking about website traffic numbers is almost like talking about how much money you make. People can volunteer the information if they wish, but you normally don’t ask during the course of polite conversation. If your numbers are high, you can sound like you are boasting. If your numbers are low, well, people may not [...]

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On Becoming A Solo Criminal Defense Attorney Right Out of Law School

August 4, 2010 Law Marketing/Networking

A couple of days ago I was contacted by a colleague here in town on a criminal case she had just taken on. My colleague set up her own firm right out of law school, and this is the first criminal matter she has ever handled. My colleague is smart and went to a good [...]

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On Bringing in New Clients as a D.C. Criminal Defense Lawyer

July 23, 2010 Law Marketing/Networking

I was in contact this morning with a former colleague at the Philadelphia public defender’s office who eventually plans to go into private practice herself and who tells me she has always been impressed by my willingness to take the plunge. But, she told me, she has no clue about how you go about bringing [...]

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“Innocent Until Proven Guilty” Video

July 21, 2010 Law Marketing/Networking

Courtesy of Jeff Adachi and the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, here is a public service video entitled “Innocent Until Proven Guilty.”

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On Attempting to Measure “Success” on Twitter

July 11, 2010 Law Marketing/Networking

A couple of weeks ago, somebody appropriated my name, photograph and biographical information for over a month to tweet some of the most inane things you have ever seen on Twitter.  (And that is saying a lot.)  Although my impersonator avoided tweeting anything blatantly offensive or crude, it was still distressing to see my name [...]

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On Norm Pattis and “The Happysphere”

June 26, 2010 Criminal Law Bloggers

Norm Pattis was in town this weekend, and Mirriam Seddiq and I joined him last night for dinner at Oyamel restaurant.  Seddiq’s brother works as the head bartender there, and he made sure we were treated like royalty. Pattis and Seddiq were in the bar area waiting for our table when I arrived.  Pattis commented [...]

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Ode to Colin Samuels’ Mother

June 19, 2010 Criminal Law Bloggers

Back in the days when I tried to write fiction, my greatest aspiration was to get a short story into the Best American or O’Henry anthologies of best short stories for the year. Alas, I was never successful. No nominations. No honorable mentions.  Not once. Not even close. Given my need for outside validation, I [...]

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