Associate's Mind

  There’s a lot of noise being made about new lawyers going solo straight out of law school. Considering the dismal market for legal jobs, many new law grads are headed towards solo practice out of necessity. A large number of the people I graduated with headed deliberately into solo practice, with no desire to [...]

  I had ended up on Wikipedia through a some link of some story that I was reading a couple days ago. Surfing, reading, clicking. I couldn’t even tell you what the original story I was reading. But I ended up on Janteloven, or Jante Law. Jante Law is: A pattern of group behavior towards [...]

  As I’ve written about before, there is growing pressure on the legal industry from large companies that are producing standardized “form” documents for consumers at much lower costs than obtaining such documents from a traditional law firm. Yet somewhere in that process, a lawyer was at least involved in the creation of these form [...]

Roughly one year ago, I put up a post entitled Georgetown Law Dean, Millennials and Unrealistic Expectations at the ABA, that touched on the downward trends in the legal job market. (I also called a double-dip recession – holla) In the last post on Wal-Mart Efficiency with Neiman Marcus Feel, I detailed the increasing pressure [...]

Over at the Legal Skills Prof Blog, there was mention of a Law Review article entitled The Blurred Boundaries of Social Networking in the Legal Field: Just ‘Face’ It. The article provides a broad overview on ethics and the use of social media by law students, law schools, practioners, and judges. It’s a long and [...]

The baby was crying again. It’s 5:15 AM this morning or 2 hours sitting on the tarmac in Boston or rushing through LaGuardia or flying over West Virginia or pulling into the driveway at home at 12:30 am. Mixed up schedules, cancelled flights, weather delays – all combine into sore feet, bland airport hallways, and a [...]

There is often a gap between the way things function and the way things ought to function. Law firms are bastions of doing things “the way they’ve always been done.”  Change is often not welcome within the legal field. See the continuous stream of complaints about legal writing [Hereunto, wherefore, premises considered, three (3) forms...] as an example. [...]

Final day of Productivity Week here at An Associates’ Mind. As such, I thought I’d take a moment to highlight a couple of older posts on productivity that you might have missed in the past: Remember Everything, Find Anything This was a post detailing my use of the Evernote software. It’s great stuff: cross-platform, cloud-based, [...]

As July begins, the dog days of summer are here. The oppressive heat means things sometimes slow down a bit. No better time than to review ways to improve your productivity. I’ll be highlighting websites and tools from around the web. Plus a couple items from Associate’s Mind as well. What is Legal Project Management? [...]

As July begins, the dog days of summer are here. The oppressive heat means things sometimes slow down a bit. No better time than to review ways to improve your productivity. I’ll be highlighting websites and tools from around the web. Plus a couple items from Associate’s Mind as well. Getting Started A large part [...]