October 2010

For everyone out there wondering when the ABA would have an opinion on social media and social networking the answer appears to be “soon.” The ABA has a really cool commission with a really long name, ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 Working Group on the Implications of New Technologies who have come out with an

I was recently zipping through my Google Reader and came across an interesting article recapping a guru’s recent presentation (is that general enough??). The guru was pontificating on what the guru pontificates on, and I thought to myself “bullshit.” Before taking the opinion of  a guru as gospel, I urge you to look behind the

My old boss Steve Barrett shared this story with me many, many years ago. It was meant to illustrate how lawyers really don’t like change. Considering the 8:45 a.m. phone call I got this morning, all I can say is, ten years later, the story still has merit:

The Banana Story

Start with a cage

It happens. The rumor. The gossip. The office buzz. The phones start ringing. The emails start pinging. All hell breaks loose. SOMETHING is happening in your office. But no one is too sure yet what it is. But the BUZZ will take off and the less information people have, the worse the damage they can