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Will Client Die After Mailroom Mix-Up?; How Clients Find Lawyers; Lawyer Fashion Stuck in 1980s; Which Grads Make $160K? - ABA Journal Weekly
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Appellate Practice
Supreme Court to Decide if Sullivan & Cromwell's Mailroom Mix-Up Bars Capital Appeal
Mar 21, 2011, 02:44 pm CDT
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Plus: Blistering 7th Circuit Opinion Fines Lawyer $5K, Orders Him to Alert Clients to Possible Malpractice
Mar 23, 2011, 06:03 pm CDT
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/blistering_7th_circuit_opinion_fines_lawyer_5k_orders_him_to_alert_clients_/?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
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Legal Marketing
How People Find Lawyers: Referrals Are Popular, Blogs Not So Much, Poll Finds
Mar 23, 2011, 05:30 am CDT
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/how_people_find_lawyers_referrals_are_popular_blogs_not_so_much_poll_finds/?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
Careers
Despite Casual Fashion Trend Sweeping the Business World, Lawyers Choose the Familiar
Mar 21, 2011, 05:20 pm CDT
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/despite_casual_fashion_trend_sweeping_the_business_world_lawyers_choose_the/?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
Plus: Which Law Schools' Grads Make $160K Median Pay? None, According to Website's Data
Mar 24, 2011, 10:40 am CDT
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/which_law_schools_grads_make_160k_median_pay_none_according_to_websites_dat/?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
Prosecutors
Deputy DA Who Prosecuted Paris Hilton Drug Case Is Arrested on Crack Cocaine Charge
Mar 21, 2011, 06:35 am CDT
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/deputy_da_who_prosecuted_paris_hilton_drug_case_is_arrested_on_crack_cocain/?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court Slaps 9th Circuit for 'Inexplicable' Decision in Batson Challenge
Mar 21, 2011, 09:59 am CDT
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/supreme_court_slaps_9th_circuit_for_inexplicable_decision_in_batson_challen/?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
Plus: Supreme Court Rules Oral Workplace Complaints Are Protected Under Labor Law
Mar 22, 2011, 09:54 am CDT
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/supreme_court_rules_oral_workplace_complaints_are_protected_under_labor_law/?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
The New Normal
Keeping Score: 6 Ways to Know if Change Is Really Happening
Mar 21, 2011, 08:53 am CDT
http://www.abajournal.com/legalrebels/article/keeping_score_6_way_to_know_if_change_is_really_happening/?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
Law Firms
Three Letters--LLP--Helped Spur Howrey's Downfall, Columnist Says
Mar 21, 2011, 07:17 am CDT
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/three_lettersllphelped_spur_howreys_downfall_columnist_says/?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
Plus: Law Firms Need to Act More Like Businesses and Hire Accordingly, Prof Says
Mar 21, 2011, 07:42 am CDT
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/law_firms_need_to_act_more_likely_businesses_and_hire_accordingly_prof_says/?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email
Judiciary
Wis. Justice Admits He Lobbed the B-Word at the Chief Justice--and Says It Was Warranted
Mar 22, 2011, 05:30 am CDT
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Criminal Justice
Alcohol Allegedly Served by DUI Lawyer in Client Meeting at His Office Leads to His Arrest
Mar 21, 2011, 01:56 pm CDT
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Plus: Not Clear on the Concept: Man Allegedly Brings Beer to Court for DWI Hearing, Is Jailed
Mar 22, 2011, 04:32 pm CDT
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Trials & Litigation
Ordered to Wear 'Spit Guard' at Trial After Targeting Attorney, Defendant Looks Like Hannibal Lecter
Mar 22, 2011, 01:18 pm CDT
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Plus: Convicted Ex-Qwest CEO Sues over $25M Legal Bill, Claims Lawyers Billed Him for Their Underwear
Mar 23, 2011, 01:06 pm CDT
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Question of the Week
How Formal or Informal Are You in Your Interactions with Your Clients?
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/how_formal_or_informal_are_you_in_your_interactions_with_your_clients?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=default_email
This week at the blog Going Paperless, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor associate Molly DiBianca gives a shout-out to a Paris partner at the law firm Bird & Bird who doesn't share her "hesitancy to make [his] comedic debut via Outlook" and who wrote a very frank out-of-office autoreply message that was published on RollOnFriday. Here is the message:
From: Alain Gorny
Subject: Out of office
I am NOT travelling on business or similar: I am just taking my Friday OFF and will be your slave again on Monday.
Please kindly liaise with my wonderful Team.
Thank you for your understanding
Alain Gorny
Dibianca says she fancies herself "to be the nonstandard, nonboring lawyer type, and I cringe to think that my out-of-office autoreply message may reflect otherwise. But I also worry that this is not the place to express myself creatively. It is, after all, a business message."
So this week, we'd like to ask you: How formal or informal are you in your interactions with your clients? Read the full question, and answer in the comments.
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/how_formal_or_informal_are_you_in_your_interactions_with_your_clients/
Read the answers to last week's question: Has a Case or a Client Ever Made You Fear for Your Life?
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/has_a_case_or_a_client_ever_made_you_fear_for_your_life/
Featured answer:
Posted by Barbara Rosenberg: "When I was a young and petite lawyer, a large and strong assigned criminal defendant whom I had been representing -- and from whose case I had petitioned to withdraw -- held me hostage in an enclosed jail cell with a large serrated tin can lid at my neck for six hours. He knocked out the lightbulb and wouldn't let me speak for several hours. He finally negotiated a 'deal' permitting my release. Scary."
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