Work-hoarding Partners and their Consequences (Dennis M. Kennedy)
Tom Collins, in his excellent More Partner Income blog, describes a phenomenon that I've seen for a long time, yet have found difficult to explain to people. In fact, I often feel that people do not...
View ArticleBilling For Your Time Is Like . . . (Dennis M. Kennedy)
. . . clubbing your next meal, according to Jim Logan in a sparkling post called "Billing For Your Time Is Like Clubbing Your Next Meal." The money quote: "Billing for your time is like clubbing your...
View ArticleBlog In Peace (Denise Howell)
A colleague recently asked me what concrete steps I thought an organization could take to help ensure the concepts underlying a blogging policy are actually understood and implemented. Bearing in mind...
View ArticleBuild To Suit (Denise Howell)
Illustrating the approaches toward blogging policies should be context-specific and not cookie cutter: Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz: "Our blogging policy is 'Be authentic. Period.'" (It's...
View ArticleAttention, Please (Denise Howell)
Ed Batista, Element 55: Attention for Attorneys: "'[A]ttention' isn't just a geeky buzzword anymore, and attention services providing tangible value in the real world are here, even if their own...
View ArticleOpen, Wiki (Denise Howell)
Just out this week, Socialtext Open: "Socialtext Open is released under a standard open source license, and contains all of Socialtext's enterprise grade code aside from enterprise management and...
View ArticleDon't Pull Any Punches, Ed (Denise Howell)
Ed Poll has a piece in the ABA's Law Practice Today on why associates are so dissatisfied. He says law firms have three fundamental defects: a flawed business model; a flawed financial focus; and...
View ArticleAddendum To Scoble's CWM (Denise Howell)
On February 26, 2003, Robert Scoble penned (keyboarded?) his Corporate Weblog Manifesto, possibly the single most important thing business people can read (other than, of course, Robert's book) to...
View ArticleWindows Apps, Hold The Windows (Denise Howell)
I'm really looking forward to CrossOver once it ships. (Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for $59.95?)
View ArticleRule #1: Don't Be Stupid (Denise Howell)
There's an excellent article at APC Magazine, warning businesses who lock down their Internet access that they're in danger of losing employees. But that's not all they're in danger of losing. There's...
View ArticleForecast: Hazy (Denise Howell)
Unless you're our colleague Ernie, that is: "I don't want to put any disclaimers on my blog," said Ernest Svenson, a blogger better know as Ernie the Attorney. "It's a buy-in to a mindset that I want...
View ArticleNew Bar Blogging Policy Emphasizes Cluefulness, Participation (Denise Howell)
Attorney and Chicago area blogger Mazyar M. Hedayat has drafted and released a blogging policy for the DuPage County Bar Association, "as well as any committee, firm, or bar association thinking of...
View Article(Head)Hunting Season (Denise Howell)
David Lat, on the New York Post's Lawyers, Fun, & Money piece (about midlevel attorneys leaving large firms): "As the Book of Revelation teaches, when Fortune 500 document dumps are being reviewed...
View ArticleAgreeing To The Cloud (Denise Howell)
As more and better communication and collaboration functions move to the Web (under non-negotiated, vendor-centric terms of use), what are our obligations as both tech- and ethics-savvy lawyers? I for...
View ArticleIf It's All About Respect, Why Do They Look So Foolish? (Denise Howell)
So — what should Nixon Peabody have done when its embarrassing firm non-theme song made its inevitable way onto the Web? (And into the atmosphere of countless homes and offices, as its hapless victims...
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