Hat tip to Patrick Lamb for his post discussing Richard Susskind‘s The Stages of Change:
Stage 1: “What you’re saying is worthless nonsense.”
Stage 2: “What you’re saying is an interesting but perverted point of view.”
Stage 3: “What you’re saying is true but quite unimportant.”
Stage 4: “I have always said so.”
For
This Friday, June 18, 2010, I’ll be joined by Renée Barrett, Jay Pinkert and Ed Poll at the Los Angeles County Bar Association‘s 3rd Annual Small Firm & Solo Practitioner Conference where we’ll present on:
Kudos and thanks to Jonathan Fitzgarrald and Cheryl Bame for gathering together some of our colleagues to produce: “Law Firm Marketing Leaders: Tips from a Collection of Experts,” (pdf). Enjoy the “5 Tips” on the following topics from some of legal marketing’s finest:
I grew up at the foot of Westwood Boulevard, and for those living under a rock, The Wizard of Westwood passed away this week (click here for the UCLA tribute to Coach Wooden or a collection of posts from Bruin Nation). What has amazed me in wake of Coach Wooden’s death are the personal
I’ve blogged on a few “personal responsibility” issues of late, here and here.
I think the story of Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga and Umpire Jim Joyce‘s blown call, costing Mr. Galarraga a perfect game, is a great example of the power of “I’m sorry.”
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Listening to Mr. Joyce last night I
Yeah, I woke up this morning to sunshine and my first thoughts were “can’t wait to hang out by the pool and enjoy some BBQ this THREE-DAY weekend.”
But I’m an American (no hyphen necessary) first, and my thoughts turned to what is important about this weekend to remember, and that is our men and
I’m reading Tim Corocan’s most recent blog post, Don’t Tell Me What You Think I Want to Hear, Tell Me What I Need to Know!, and I came to a hard stop on this:
At a recent discussion on the topic, a Chief Legal Officer explained the impact of a cost overrun in her
I have a favorite band, The Airborne Toxic Event. They’ve achieved fame and a lot of airplay for their song, Sometime Around Midnight. They’ve performed on Letteman and Jimmy Kimmel Live. They have more than 38,000 fans on Facebook (yes, I’m still calling them “fans”). [caption id=”” align=”alignright” width=”302″ caption=”Organ at Disney
Corporate counsel read blogs? They get their news from Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin? Wikipedia is a trusted resource?? Who knew?? Well, besides all of us??
A new survey reveals that sophisticated purchasers of legal services in major corporations increasingly are influenced by attorney-authored blogs in forming opinions that influence law firm hiring decisions. Additionally, nearly
Lawyers, it’s time to cut the apron strings and do for yourselves what your marketing department has been doing for far too long. Legal marketers, it’s time to cut the apron strings and empower your attorneys to do for themselves what you have — begrudgingly — done for them for far too long. Let’s face