Hey, He Took My Cell Phone!

  Publish something in a local newspaper, internet site, or periodical about current events of interest to the public to increase your exposure and reach potential clients. Recently, in an attempt to get my students to try something to promote themselves, I gave them an assignment to write 500 work copy that they might want […]

Rural Practice?

  Where have all the lawyers gone? A student sought my advice recently about establishing a practice in a rural setting in an attempt to locate her practice in an area that was less saturated with lawyers. My advice to her was to concern herself less with the density of lawyers in a given area […]

A True Story

  Years ago, while in college during, there was a military draft. Your birth date was associated with a number between 1 and 365, picked at random in a lottery. To “win” the lottery, among my peers would be to get a number in the high 200’s. That was because, at that time, Uncle Sam […]

Be A Cardtable Lawyer. . . .

I once had a student-gone-solo contact me in a large city on the east coast with pictures of his newly rented office with fine woodwork throughout and a nice stash of law books in the background. He looked almost “regal” and was quick to tell me that “You need to look successful to succeed”. I […]