Take Control of The Wine List
Laurie Forster, The Wine Coach®
Imagine this — You are seated at an upscale restaurant with one of your best clients and then handed a wine list thicker than a college textbook. You want to pick out the “perfect” wine to impress your client but everything looks like it is written [...]
Have you ever wished that you could just focus on practicing law, and not have to worry about getting clients?
So many of the lawyers I work with tell me they just wish for a magic wand that would make clients appear. Of course, we all know that isn’t going to happen!Â
But I do have a [...]
A relatively new client who hired me to work on business development asked me this week about using Twitter and mobile marketing to push blog and newsletter content. Interesting idea, except that this client doesn’t yet have a blog or a newsletter! When I pointed that out, she pushed back at first, telling me that [...]
The No [Censored] Rule
By Robert Sutton, Ph.D.
Note: To avoid triggering filters, I’m substituting the word “jerk” for the censored word in the title. You can see the original in the image.
 Dr. Robert I. Sutton is a champion of the civilized workplace, created and maintained through careful enforcement of the no “jerk” rule. Expanding and deepending [...]
When you talk, you want others to listen, right? Whether it’s a now-or-never event (making a key point in an oral argument, for instance) or one in a long stream of communications (talking with a colleague about some aspect of a representation), getting your point across and making some sort of advance in what you’re [...]
March 31, 2010 
