Longtime readers of this column know I strongly believe in the ethical and economic correctness of selling a law practice. Central to that belief is my conviction that a law practice has goodwill that can be sold. Goodwill in this ...
Read More »Hoeflich: Prosecutors harm legal profession in public eye
The past few weeks have put a renewed focus on the problems that arise when law enforcement officials permit internal conflicts to affect how they do their jobs. In North Carolina, Mike Nifong, the former prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse ...
Read More »Watch out for side effects from advertising
Warning! Law firm advertising may be bad for your health. At least that’s what a survey released on Wednesday by drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. and the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare says. The survey of 402 psychiatrists who ...
Read More »Connaghan: Watch out for side effects from advertising
Scarier than Zyprexa’s history of lawsuits are its ads full of the drug’s possible side effects. Photo by J B Reed/ Bloomberg News Warning! Law firm advertising may be bad for your health, according to a survey released on Wednesday ...
Read More »Connaghan: Surveys offer little data for millions who fly solo
Surveys are funny things. According to one released last week, these are good days for some in the legal profession. The survey, conducted by legal staffing firm Robert Half Legal, found that 69 percent of lawyers they questioned said their ...
Read More »Poll: Profit ‘manipulation’ just part of ‘big business’
Lawyer compensation remains a hot topic. The furor over $160,000 average annual pay for new associates had barely died down before one of the nation’s 10 largest firms gained notoriety (to say the least) when its internal decision to lay ...
Read More »Napier: Choose your perception wisely around public
Choose your perception wisely around public I was born in Missouri, about a quarter-mile from where my office and posterior presently sit. I was raised in Kansas. I was benched once before a football game for dippin’ in the homecoming ...
Read More »Woolner: Republicans go soft on Lewis Libby
You would think Lewis “Scooter” Libby had done nothing much wrong if you listen to all the venting about the prison term slapped on him this week. “Way out of line,” former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said about the ...
Read More »Connaghan: Plaintiffs’ attorneys keep manufacturers in check
Why does it seem like manufacturers have it in for the children in our country? Every week we hear about some product causing a child to break this or that. This week’s candidate is the ubiquitous roller shoe. I’m sure ...
Read More »For better or worse, plaintiff’s attorneys impact kids’ play
Why does it seem like manufacturers have it in for the children in our country? Every week we hear about some product causing a child to break this or that. This week’s candidate is the ubiquitous roller shoe. I’m sure ...
Read More »For better or worse, plaintiff’s attorneys impact kids’ play
Why does it seem like manufacturers have it in for the children in our country? Every week we hear about some product causing a child to break this or that. This week’s candidate is the ubiquitous roller shoe. I’m sure ...
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