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June 03, 2006

...and the Times of London has a legal weblog.

We learn from Point of Law and Robert Ambrogi that the Times of London--the Murdoch publication which announced plans to enter the U.S. market--has been publishing Law Weblog since February. It may be just WAC? but The Times' new blog looks and feels a bit like Peter Lattman's Law Blog launched in January at The Wall Street Journal.

Posted by JD Hull at 04:51 PM | Comments (0)

Special Saturday Glimpse into the Eternally Serious Swiss...

Click here. Since we are talking in European stereotypes here, note that this tragedy occurred in traditional, old-fashioned Vienna, Austria. Our thanks to YouTube, Margaret Marks at Transblawg and one of the editors at the International Desk of Blawg Review.

Posted by JD Hull at 11:42 AM | Comments (0)

June 02, 2006

South African Legal Weblogs?

And we know you are out there. A South African commercial litigator, Paul Jacobson, just let us know about his blog. If you publish or know about other active blawgs originating in or about South Africa, please let us know so we can add it to the growing list on your bottom left of non-U.S. blawgs. Thanks to some excellent blawgs here and abroad and a few of our betters like Blawg Review there's increasing interest in the WAC? effort to expand the digital conversation with the rest of the world by creating a solid catalogue of non-U.S. legal weblogs. In the next few days, we--well, a hard working guy in Pennsylvania named Tom who started out as a corporate tax lawyer but now is headed for more fun if contentious projects--will add here links of recently-submitted non-U.S. blawgs. We'd do it sooner but at WAC? we don't just talk about the mysteries of high-end global clients who trade everywhere. We have to work for them, too.

Posted by JD Hull at 04:11 PM | Comments (0)

June 01, 2006

The Wonder of Repeat Business - Part 2

Tom Kane at The Legal Marketing Blog has yet another great article on marketing to existing clients--one of my favorite WAC? subjects--and it's right here. This follows previous posts by both Tom and Jim Hassett we discussed last month on the same subject. Stats, anecdotes and plain common sense will tell you that it's a lot easier to expand your business from the client base you already have than to go after new game. In particular, if you have good corporate clients, try this: work for them every day like it's that first project they gave you 10 or 15 years ago. Forget forever what other lawyers do or don't do and compete against your own standard. Keep those clients safe, happy and coming back to you with both repeat work and new types of work.

Posted by JD Hull at 02:55 PM | Comments (0)

May 30, 2006

Do See Blawg Review #59

One of the better-conceived and maybe the classiest Blawg Review you'll see is this week's Memorial Day Special Blawg Review #59.

Posted by JD Hull at 12:56 PM | Comments (0)

May 29, 2006

Law Firm Cash As The Great Deceiver.

"If we're rich, we must be smart." Well, maybe not. Here's a cash position pattern that prevents many of us from thinking clearly. Tom Collins at MorePartnerIncome pins it down, and articulates it. He reminds us to trust hard facts, analysis and planning over the thrill of today's cash flow and respectable reserves in Cash Is An Unreliable Barometer of Law Firm Health. Tom and Debbie Foster of InTouch Legal call this syndrome the "accidentally successful" law firm.

Posted by JD Hull at 11:55 AM | Comments (0)

More Non-U.S. Blawgs

Since the post immediately below, we've received suggestions for about 10 more non-U.S. legal weblogs from or about the jurisdictions of Canada, Germany, Netherlands Antilles and New Zealand to add to the catalogue. If you publish or know about an active blawg you'd like to recommend, please send the site by comment or e-mail.

Posted by JD Hull at 01:03 AM | Comments (0)