Success: Reputation & Relationships

Success: Reputation & Relationships

by | Reputation

A three hour dinner at a steakhouse. Back and forth regarding mediator selection at Reddit. Exchanging Facebook messages regarding contract negotiations in Dallas. I wrote about the steakhouse experience at Above The Law back in the day. Myself and a few lawyers...
Success: Reputation & Relationships

What Is Natural Networking?

by | Professional Development

If you don’t have a book of business, you’re disposable. That’s doubly true in the current legal employment malaise. There are other ways to be indispensable — bill incredible amounts of hours, develop mastery over an esoteric area of law, have invaluable...
You’re Being Played By Twitter

You’re Being Played By Twitter

by | Twitter

There doesn’t seem to be much available out there about Social Media from a gamification perspective that is accessible to regular users as opposed to designers or math-types. Gamification is the use of game play mechanics for non-game applications, particularly...
Lawyers Aren’t Free

Lawyers Aren’t Free

by | Business

Should you work for free? Last week on the Twitters, I noticed a post by Bob Ambrogi, offering details on a new website that wants to be “the WebMD of law:” The video site TalksOnLaw describes itself as on a mission to help everyone better understand the...
Ignore Choice Architecture At Your Peril

Ignore Choice Architecture At Your Peril

by | Social Media

Last evening, just as his “Gays for Trump” event at the Republican National Convention, Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos was suspended from Twitter. The justification for the suspension is currently unknown, although it could be as a result of Milo’s run-in...