The Business of Law


Posts cover both tort law and law practice management issues.

Author: Michael J. Skoler is CEO, Anders Ekman is chief marketing officer and Marc Stern is vice president of business development at Sokolove Law in Boston.

Blawg Related Categories: Law Practice Management • Legal Marketing & Consulting • Tort Law • Medical Malpractice • Product Liability Law • Solo / Small Firm

Recent Posts from The Business of Law


  • Study: Anemia Drugs Linked to Stroke and Clot Risk

    New research published in The New England Journal of Medicine says that patients suffering from kidney disease who took the drug Aranesp may be at greater risk of having a stroke.  An earlier, separate study…

  • Progress?

    As close readers may remember, back in September I wrote a post calling for an end to the billable hour.  At the time I wrote the following: The problem with the billable hour is that…

  • Giving “Credit” Where “Credit” is Due

    I want to give credit in this post.  Credit to the FTC for a very creative legal argument, but more importantly credit to Steven Krane of Proskauer Rose for blowing that argument up in Federal…

  • Surveying the Landscape

    Law firms of America, we want to hear from you!!  Seriously, as I’ve written before , at Sokolove Law one of the things we take very seriously is our relationship with each of our co-counsel…

  • Baby Steps and a Ball and Chain

    It took three years and I am guessing an obscene amount of time, money and energy on all sides given the reliance on a 300 page Special Master’s Report, but the New Jersey Supreme Court…

  • Keep Your “Friends” Close…but Your Subordinates Further Away

    Machiavelli’s “Prince” wisely observed: “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer” but when it comes to social networking sites, some experts are recommending that bosses keep their subordinates at arms’ length. As social networking…

  • Is Smaller Better?

    Sometimes smaller is better, that might be the lesson of recent developments in the business of law. For years, the conventional wisdom was that the way to build a legal business and inoculate yourself form…

  • You Touch It, You Own It

    Everyone knows the old cliché, “you break it, you bought it”. Well we may need to create a new version of that old saying when it comes to lawyer’s interaction with internet sites such as…

  • Risk and Liability in Exchange Traded Funds (ETF’s)

    It may be time to add exchange-traded funds (ETF) to the alphabet soup of culprits of the economic meltdown, and it may be that investors who lost money in ETF’s may have claims against the…

  • Worker’s Health Care…Up In Smoke

    “Then he bummed a cigarette and faded off to sleep” So goes the lyrics in Kenny Rogers’ iconic 1978 song, The Gambler. That song, along with countless Hollywood movies featuring either the suave sophisticated gambler…