Law Firm Compensation Systems: Getting What You Pay For
I was once hired at a firm to replace a much more senior corporate lawyer who I will call Carl. One of a number of… Read More »Law Firm Compensation Systems: Getting What You Pay For
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The Best Article Ever Written (by me) About Retiring from Law Firms
Let’s say that a partner at a law firm has been there for quite a while and is getting older, a situation in which I… Read More »The Best Article Ever Written (by me) About Retiring from Law Firms
A Lawyer’s Perspective on All that Hourly Rate Nonsense
“Our policy is to push the work down to the least expensive professional resource who can provide an excellent work product, and by doing so… Read More »A Lawyer’s Perspective on All that Hourly Rate Nonsense
Estimates or Guesstimates?
Every time I phone a call centre for just about any company, it turns out that they are experiencing a higher volume of calls than… Read More »Estimates or Guesstimates?
Why Can’t You Make My Open-Heart Surgery Shorter?
At my first firm, Eric was a client lawyer. He was not much for reading legal documents, but he knew how he wanted them to… Read More »Why Can’t You Make My Open-Heart Surgery Shorter?
Lamenting Never Having Found the Legal Dream Team
You may have heard the saying that ‘If you owe a $100,000 to the Bank, you have a problem; but if you owe $100,000,000 to… Read More »Lamenting Never Having Found the Legal Dream Team
Translations From Lawyer Talk: Part Two
As a continuation of my public service, I offer the following additional translations from Lawyer Talk to Plain English:
Let’s Pretend that the Closing Date is Realistic
My many years of practice taught me that clients usually want to close their transactions quickly. You would think that they would want to close… Read More »Let’s Pretend that the Closing Date is Realistic
Translations From Lawyer Talk
As a public service, I offer the following translations from Lawyer Talk to Plain English:
Where Have All The Bullies Gone?
We lawyers like to use definitions in our writing. It makes the substance of the document easier to read because it allows the drafter to… Read More »Where Have All The Bullies Gone?