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July 12, 2008
Writing well
He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement is a wise man.
Euripides, non-lawyer (480-406 B.C.)
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July 11, 2008
London's Charon QC interviews What About Clients?
On Tuesday, Charon QC, London's velvet-voiced legal toastmaster, interviewed an early-rising Dan Hull in California for Charon's podcast series. Dan drank coffee, allegedly. Charon drank something, perhaps Rioja. Their first encounter, one of Charon's first shows, was live at Dan's hotel in the Mayfair section of London in 2007. Hear Tuesday's program here. Charon's posted summary:
"We talk about the meaning of client service--the difference in attitude between Babyboomers and Generation X/Generation Y to law--Legalese or 'Lawyer-speak'--review GeekLawyer’s Blawg Review 166--and if Dan is coming to [the second annual] UK LawBlog 2008 in September 2008."
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Jim Hassett: Protecting relationships.
Another client-focused blog which, like Tom Kane's, consistently transcends the group-hugs-and-Kumbaya marketing sites out there is Jim Hassett's Legal Business Development. There's stuff here you can use to make money. See "The Top Ten Ways For Lawyers To Increase Client Satisfaction", covering both existing clients and referral sources.
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Tom Kane: What your firm should be doing in a down economy.
Recently, Tom Kane, at his well-regarded Legal Marketing Blog, has focused on marketing during "bad times". And whether the downturn has hit your law firm or not, it's sure to have affected some of your best clients. Think as they do. The principles are the same.
Now, More Than Ever, Talk With Your Clients
Down Economy: Rainmakers Need Not Worry
Best Practices for the Down Economy
We would add: if you're nervous about not having enough work in the short term, stick to clients you already have, and relationships you've already firmed up. Put a bit less energy into building brand new ones.
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The French president gets the chair.
The presidency of the European Union's Council, the EU's main decision-making body, rotates every six months. EU countries take turns chairing and overseeing the Council's agenda. The second half of 2008 is France's turn. And so "Charlemagne", the Europe affairs columnist at The Economist--which is evolving into a kind of Time or Newsweek for the entire West--tries to explain why Europe is "nervous" about Nicolas Sarkozy’s stint in the chair.
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Virgin's tough new IP piracy strategy.
From "Stop Filesharing Or We’ll Smack Your Bottom" at Ruthie's Law:
Ruthie was also hugely amused to hear four students who had received letters [from Virgin Media] being interviewed, and who were disgusted not to receive the letter but to be accused of downloading Amy Winehouse.....When will record companies start to understand that they may have to go without bubbly at the next few shareholders meetings until they can devise some alternative means of extracting cash from the music loving public?
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July 10, 2008
The law: pasts and prologues.
Law profs Mary Dudziak and and Richard Ross co-author Legal History Blog, "Scholarship, News and New Ideas in Legal History". WAC? is especially interested in "Ross on The Career of Puritan Jurisprudence". Were Puritan judges appointed on a merit system--or elected? Did they throw fundraisers around New England? We're only half-kidding--but we'll try to find out. Seriously, LHB is an elegant--and seriously interesting--site. If you are interested in the great Judge Jerome Frank, see "Legal Realism and International Law, 1938".
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 12:30 AM | Comments (0)
100 blogs for brass: leadership and mangement.
A resource you don't see every day. Lisa Haneberg at Management Craft notes that HR World has assembled a list of 100 top-notch blogs on management and leadership, including sites on branding, marketing, finance and technology.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 12:11 AM | Comments (0)
July 08, 2008
Blawg Review Republic
Do read Blawg Review #167, skillfully covering last week's best posts. Ambitious and expertly-done, it pays homage to the 50 states in order of their ratification of the Constitution. And there's even a mention of WAC?'s native Washington, D.C., where for years this blog's founder freely romped with the sage Ernie from Glen Burnie and discovered, unfortunately, his inner Irish guy. So our comment yesterday to Northern Virginia's Jon Frieden and his E-Commerce Law, the hosts of Blawg Review #167, stands:
Wow is the word. Classy, literate, both broad and deep; we "past-is-prologue" history of ideas freaks at WAC? love the ratification springboard. First rate--and this week all without hard porn, too. How'd you manage that...?
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July 06, 2008
Jim Hassett: "Advances"
Moving the ball. Read Jim Hassett's "How to increase results by planning sales advances" at his Legal Business Development. In his live presentations and tapes, Jim talks convincingly on the need to "plan advances" while prospecting for new business--and how to do it.
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