What About Clients?
"What About Clients? is a weblog which contains my personal ideas and thoughts on servicing business clients as valued customers in American law firms. I started it in 2005 because I think that 1) the level of service at even the best American law firms is often inattentive and erratic—and that troubles me—and 2) even where service is sound, it can be a lot better."
Author: Dan Hull is a partner at Hull McGuire in San Diego, where he is a litigator and lobbyist. He is a member of the California, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., bars. He's "interested in U.S politics (including raising money for candidates for national office), the workings of the new European Parliament, the histories of England and France, Parker Posey, Annabeth Gish, travel, running, airports which make sense and a young lady who lives in Los Angeles."
Blawg Related Categories: Careers • Lawyer Pay • Work/Life Balance • Law Firms • Law Practice Management • Legal Marketing & Consulting • Legal Ethics • Solo / Small Firm • Blawg 100 • Business Law
Recent Posts from What About Clients?
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Log lines, pitches, dreams and money.
Stills (1989, Samuel Hazo): "A celebrated war photographer loses his wife to a stray bullet in Lebanon, disappears and is presumed dead; he suddenly surfaces in Manhattan, and meets a young woman making a documentary…
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Law students have an International Day?
Blawg Review #186. Yes, really. It was Monday, two days ago, and WAC? of course looks dimly upon celebrating the birth of yet more global law cattle--all self-esteem and no work ethic--who in twenty years…
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A client's costs: it's your problem, too.
"Rule Eight: Think Like the Client--Help Control Costs". There are three steps here. First, realize you have a conflict ($) in following this rule. Second, think about any client who knows you want long-term work.…
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Chuck Newton: "Sir, your electronic cottage is here."
Your future office may well be a "shed", and Texas-based Chuck Newton at Chuck Newton Rides The Third Wave makes it sound a lot more appealing than, say, your digs at Washington Square in downtown…
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Professionalism, Actually.
Let’s say you’re a blues guitarist with a broken ring finger on your fretboard hand. What do you do? If you’re Albert King, you put a splint on it, and you get out there and…
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The Economist: Obama, Eastern Europe and Russia.
See "Looking West, Hopefully". The President-elect is popular and "has juice" in most of mainstream Europe. He presumably wants to keep that. What, if anything, would the Obama administration do to promote the political and…
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The Unbearable Lightness of Lawyers: Risk aversion as annoying.
Lawyers' Anti-Weenie Movement. Start the week out right. Tell the client what it can do, too. Get off your knees. Take stand. See "The 7 Habits of Highly Useless Corporate Lawyers" and "Just Say it:…
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American elected judiciary: continuing sleaze-no class news.
U.S. Supreme Court grants cert. in Harman Mining-Massey Energy state judge campaign contribution case; but it's not just a West Virginia thing. In the 1980s and 1990s, I frequently defended "Big Coal" (often on ERISA…
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Princess Hillary of Foggy Bottom?
So Hillary Clinton, who I have always liked, and I might soon be neighbors, sort of. The State Department in Washington, D.C sits on its haunches on 22nd and C, Northwest, a few blocks south…
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"An aggregation of narrow views". Curse of the larger law firm?
"Boom!! Morrison nails it. Elefant names it." (Photo: HBO) By "broad-gauged" lawyers, I mean law firm leaders and facilitators who, in addition to their own specialties, have an "expansive frame of reference" about the world,…