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Top University Students Avoiding Law School 2018 Edition
Back in 2013, I was the first person to notice students graduating from the top universities in the country were avoiding law school in droves. The LSAC usually updates this information around this time of year, so I keep an eye on their website to catch it....
How Do Lawyers Want To Communicate With Their Clients?
A couple years ago I had a software client who liked to communicate with me in whatever method was most convenient for him. We met in person at my office first of course. But afterwards we did the usual sorts of communications lawyers have with their clients - email...
Law Firm Hunters or Farmers?
Are you a hunter of a farmer? "Keith - I'm a lawyer, what are you even talking about?" In David Maister's classic book, Managing the Professional Firm, he makes an observation that most professional firms fall into two categories: Farmers and Hunters. Farmers:...
How To Stop Splintering Your Attention (Deep Work + Eisenhower Matrix)
"I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent." Now this, I think, represents a dilemma of modern man. - President Eisenhower [ref]The American Presidency Project, Speech delivered...