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October 21, 2023
Sensitive Litigation Moment: Rule 5. Over-Communicate. Bombard, Copy, Confirm.
Over-Communicate: Bombard, Copy Confirm. It's from our annoying but dead-on accurate 12 Rules. And it's short.
Rule Five: "Over-Communicate": Bombard, Copy and Confirm
I am indebted to Jay Foonberg for the inspiration for Rule 5--both "bombarding" and the idea of keeping clients continuously informed. Nearly all of my better thoughts about practice management are influenced by Foonberg. The notion of "bombarding" clients with paper and information does have obvious exceptions. For instance, you work with a GC who trusts you and wants you to leave her alone. She doesn't want you to copy her on every transmittal letter or e-mail. Fair enough. Just be 100% sure you know what she wants and doesn't want. But aside from that, this is a "can't miss" rule--and I am amazed that many good lawyers express surprise that my firm informs the client of everything at each step of the way, and copies our clients on everything.
Again, our eternal debt Jay Foonberg for this rule. We just changed the words a bit. Thanks Jay for being the first lawyer to sit down and think about how clients really think.
Over-Communicate--but keep it short and don't spazz it up.
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Isn’t it time?
Bring Back Real Women. Educated. Smart. Curious. Elegant. Thin. Pretty. Healthy. Feminine.
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October 18, 2023
Shannon on Irish Ambition
“Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to see life in a comic light becomes irresistible, and ambition falls before it.”
~ William V. Shannon
Great book with misnomer title. Thomas Cahill. 246 pages. Nan A. Talese, 1995
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October 16, 2023
Phillips, Gilmour & Townshend: it’s Monday. Give blood this week, Campers.
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October 15, 2023
St. John of Patmos: Craziest Man in the New Testament.
Looking into the Void. Saint John of Patmos writes the Book of Revelation in this Hieronymus Bosch painting (1505). Whoever wrote Revelation--no one really knows--was Out There. One King-Hell Flake. But he could write and tell stories. Wow.
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