Have You Ever Had to Fight Weather to Keep Working?

At the time of this writing, those of us in Chicago are knee-deep (at least) in snow. But ABAJournal.com soldiers on, even though most of us are working remotely. County courts are closed, but Mayer Brown, which has some of its worldwide information technology aspects centralized in the Windy City,…

Feb 2, 2011 5:50 PM CST

Letters: Kudos for Comic Book

Feb 1, 2011 10:00 AM CST

Blawg 100 Popular Vote: The Readers Have Spoken

Feb 1, 2011 9:30 AM CST

Why I Love Being a Lawyer (Seriously)

We’ve all seen the downbeat headlines—surveys show as many as half of all lawyers wouldn’t enter the profession if they had it to do over, wouldn’t recommend their children become lawyers, would rather be digging ditches or breaking rocks. As the profession struggles to recover from the Great Recession, it’s…

Jan 29, 2011 12:07 AM CST

Can Document Review Work Help You Grow as a Lawyer?

Updated: News got out this week that WilmerHale is looking to hire 40 new law graduates for legal discovery work, aka document review. And we also discovered this week that Thomson Reuters is looking to staff a document centers in Michigan and Texas. There’s arguably a stigma that can be…

Jan 26, 2011 8:39 PM CST

Are Scambloggers Right About Law School? (Podcast)

Jan 24, 2011 7:16 PM CST

His Town: Firefighter, Lawyer, Now Mayor of the City He Helped Incorporate

Lawyer Arturo Martínez de Vara’s hometown of Von Ormy, Texas, is a community where people talk about the Texas Revolution as if it were yesterday. Settled before the Alamo fell, Von Ormy, population 1,300 and 15 miles southwest of downtown San Antonio, is rich in history but short on amenities.…

Jan 22, 2011 12:09 AM CST

Self-Promotion and ABA Blawg 100 Listing Help Lawyer Playing Avvo’s Ratings ‘Game’

A listing in the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 had an added benefit for the author of a tort law blog. Writing at his New York Personal Injury Law Blog, lawyer Eric Turkewitz says the ABA listing helped improve his Avvo rating. So too, did other “faux awards,” Turkewitz says, such…

Jan 21, 2011 11:30 AM CST

Is an Emotional Outburst at the Office Ever OK?

Earlier this month at the Careerist, author Vivia Chen wrote about crying at the office, in which she cites an article from the Harvard Business Review: “The unwritten corporate rule is quite simple, reminds HBR: ‘It is never OK to cry in your office, with your colleagues, or, god forbid,…

Jan 19, 2011 7:19 PM CST

Which Words Do You Think Need to Be Banished?

Every new year since Jan. 1, 1976, Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., has released a list of words or expressions that it declares should be “banished from the Queen’s English for misuse, overuse and general uselessness.” LSSU invites readers to submit a word to banish and…

Jan 12, 2011 6:23 PM CST

Starting Up: If You’re Hanging a Shingle in 2011, Financial Strategy Begins Now

Good financial management is necessary to the success of small-business owners, and lawyers who start their own firms are no exception. Whether the entrepreneurial spirit of solo practice was lit from the current economy or was burning since you passed the bar, here are five guidelines for better money management…

Jan 8, 2011 12:02 AM CST

Do You Engage in Any Good-Luck Rituals?

This week, we noted a report that some New Yorkers—lawyers included—employ “smudgers” to clear their homes of the negative energy they feel has been left behind by prior owners or tenants through ritual acts such as burning sage inside the space. Lawyer Ziporah Riech hired a smudger because she wanted…

Jan 5, 2011 6:02 PM CST

4th Annual Blawg 100 Popular Voting Results Are Online

After a month of voting, the Blawg 100 results are in. More than 4,000 readers registered to vote for their favorites in 12 categories this year. Here are highest vote-getters in each category: Court Watch SCOTUSblog is the one-stop shop for news and expert analysis of all things U.S. Supreme…

Jan 3, 2011 5:13 PM CST

What Today’s Outsourcing Boom Means for Legal Practice (Podcast)

When Thomson Reuters announced its acquisition of one of India’s largest legal outsourcing firm late last year, we wanted to know: Is the legal information giant entering into direct competition with its law firm clients? Listen to find out more.

Jan 3, 2011 2:37 PM CST

Kudos for Solo Mills

Jan 1, 2011 10:30 AM CST