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December 20, 2007
What About Clients? named to ABA's "Blawg 100".
Many first-rate blogs didn't make this list--so we're really honored. We hope that our inclusion will bring attention to some of the consistent themes of What About Clients? since we started this project in August 2005, with the solid advice, example and help of a fine Chicago trial lawyer-blogger, and at the urging of two old D.C. friends of Hull McGuire: (1) client/customer service all over the world is remarkably poor, if not a cynical global joke; lawyers and other professionals can discipline themselves to deliver a better "experience"--weaving technical skills and real service--to valued clients, (2) corporate law firms under 150 lawyers can land and keep Fortune 500 companies if they have the right people and game plan (it's time for those with true grit to stop groveling and bottom-feeding), and (3) the legal services marketplace has become international for nearly all business lawyers.
There are the other WAC? categories--international business, litigation, IP, natural resources, HR, politics, writing well, Keith Richards, other mysteries of universe--listed over on your right that we cover every week. Other blogs we are "competing" with for votes in this ABA thing are very, very good. However, we think that WAC?--a part-time gig written by practicing lawyers (often under pressure and in very bad moods)--is more honest, broader in scope, funnier, better written, more useful, more thought-provoking, edgier, less constrained and just flat-out braver than most of the other great blogs out there. Life's short, and we started WAC? to say a few things you won't always hear at the cocktail parties and other dweeb-fests we all attend this time of year.
In short, we think lawyers should lead. So, if you are hearing us, and you appreciate it:
Posted by JD Hull at December 20, 2007 10:27 PM
Comments
This is a well-deserved honor, Dan. Congratulations to you and the other contributors to WAC?
It's not only a great resource for legal news but a refreshing dose of honesty (with a bold dash of quirk) plus a much-needed reminder of just exactly who it is that all of us are supposed to be serving.
Posted by: Diane Levin at December 8, 2007 05:45 AM
Diane--thanks!--what you think and say always matters to us. We'll try to stay refreshingly quirked. Dan
Posted by: Dan Hull at December 8, 2007 11:41 AM