Sorry I haven’t written in a while.  One of my clients…we’ll call them “English Gas” to protect their confidentiality…had a little hiccup recently.  Apparently, people love them some shrimp, and get mighty worked up when a little oil gets in the way.  As much as I obviously believe my client is absolutely innocent of any [...]

The Perfect Wife ™ recently bookmarked a few in-house counsel jobs she thought I would be interested in and “asked” me to look at them.  (More accurately, jobs she is interested in me taking so I can stop billing hours.)  Most were transactional positions (despite listening to me constantly complain about my lazy transactional cohorts, [...]

In its neverending commitment to keeping every associate on edge as many times a year as possible, our firm conducted midyear reviews recently.  For two weeks before, every associate bills as many hours as possible and kisses every partner for whom they have worked in the past few months’ backside (more than normal.)  Very rarely [...]

I was driving down a street in Memphis when I saw this:

Yes, that is a 40-50 foot replica of the Statue of Liberty holding a cross with “Return America to Christ” on the base of the statue.
This made me think of the contributions of lawyers, without whom this gift to humanity would not happened.  First, [...]

So many legal movies, so few spots on the list (ten to be exact.)  However, some were able to fight through the clutter and earn a coveted spot on this prestigious list:
10. The Firm 
This is the only Grisham film on the list (if you need to see all of the movies based on his books that [...]

Just went through and cleaned out all of the comments left.  It is ENTIRELY POSSIBLE that you wrote a comment and I just erased it.
I am sorry… kind of…
There were 5,789 comments awaiting moderation… Of those, let’s just say more than a few were spam.
So if your comment was erased… sorry… kind of…
If you were [...]

Does your firm have a slogan?  Of course it does.  All firms do. 
Do you know what your firm’s slogan is?  Of course not.  Despite giving some marketing guru what amounts to a fifth-year’s salary to come up with a pithy five word summary of who you are, the slogan is put on some coffee mugs [...]

Every office has one.  You usually figure out who she is as soon as you begin working at the firm.  If you don’t immediately know, you figure it out around the time of the Christmas party.  I am speaking, of course, of the Office Flu-zy.
No, I’m not referring to a woman with a certain…morally casual [...]

Like every business, my firm has bought into the panic and gone overboard trying to avoid a mass flu infection.  And, like everywhere else, the policies have led to mass laziness and absenteeism.
First, the firm is offering free flu vaccines to the lawyers.  Further, they ”massaged the truth” to the County Health Department and said they had a [...]

So the firm’s billable year ends next week, and I highly enjoy watching everyone squeeze out every last .1 of an hour.  I actually had someone ask me if we could park in the garage on Sundays!  So he is basically admitting that the has never been to work on a Sunday!  I thought about [...]