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A panel of national transportation experts held meetings this week in St. Louis in an effort to end the standoff between Missouri and Illinois over the proposed new bridge over the Mississippi just north of downtown St. Louis. Discussions about ...
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Classes help, but ethics remain personal
Most lawyers I know are ethical people. They were ethical before entering law school, remained ethical during law school and have continued to be ethical throughout their legal careers. Lawyers are constantly faced with ethical questions. Advances in technology bring ...
Read More »Everyone could — but won’t — use my wonderful lawyer gift cards
I have come up with a way to dramatically increase my revenues without raising my hourly rate or working more hours. Starting today, I am going to sell law firm gift cards. It is shocking to me that no lawyer ...
Read More »Classes help, but ethics remain personal
Most lawyers I know are ethical people. They were ethical prior to entering law school, remained ethical during law school and have continued to be ethical throughout their legal careers. Lawyers are constantly faced with ethical questions. Advances in technology ...
Read More »Legislators can help improve legal system
Missouri lawmakers kicked off the First Regular Session of the 94th General Assembly last week, and it is shaping up to be another year of competing legislative agendas. Education, health care and immigration look to be the hot topics for ...
Read More »Dice will roll — in my favor, I hope
Well, my veteran office partner and I have decided to get things going to organize a small firm and implement a marketing strategy. I am scouring the local media outlets trying to put together a sensible plan to spend our ...
Read More »Five ways legislators should improve the legal system
Missouri lawmakers kicked off the First Regular Session of the 94th General Assembly on Wednesday and it is shaping up to be another year of competing legislative agendas. Education, health care and immigration look to be the hot topics for ...
Read More »In electronic world, paper trail becomes hard habit to give up
It’s the New Year, and I’m on vacation. That is, if you can call battling an invasion of paper from the depths of large brown bags hidden in the darkest corner of the master bedroom closet a vacation. My kitchen ...
Read More »No other profession sees marketing the way law does
Some of us can still remember when lawyer advertising was prohibited by the Code of Professional Conduct. It took a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Arizona v. Bates nearly 30 years ago to reassure lawyers that having business cards ...
Read More »Another year behind me
Made it. As I begin my third year practicing law I am happy for many things, but I’m probably most happy about being finished with my second year of practicing law. As far as years go it was pretty good. ...
Read More »Master client satisfaction surveys
The goal of a satisfaction survey is to strengthen client loyalty and stimulate new business from existing clients. To be most effective, you need to select clients who provide the greatest potential increase in the value to the firm and ...
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