What Is Lawyer Slack?
LawyerSlack is now LawyerSmack – the leading private community for lawyers. Learn More What the hell is Slack you ask? Slack is basically a messaging app on steroids. It’s meant for teams and workplaces, can be used across multiple devices and platforms,...
How To Write a Legal Brief
A few years ago, a couple of law professors surveyed practicing lawyers and judges on the quality of legal writing from new lawyers. The results? More than 93% of the responding practicing attorneys and judges believed that the briefs and memoranda they saw were...
How To Leave A Law Firm
Last week a lawyer contacted me and posed the following question: If I opened my own practice in January what are my obligations to my clients? Can I take the files with me automatically? I’m pretty close to opening my own thing. TL;DR: No, there’s more to...
Review: Typography For Lawyers (2nd Edition)
A couple weeks ago I received a review copy of Matthew Butterick’s Typography For Lawyers (TFL), 2nd edition from the publisher. It’s not a new release, it actually came out last year. But it’s something that I’ve been meaning to read and the...Sidebar
