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From Attorney Keith Turner who co-wrote “Five Questions to Ask Your Litigation Counsel”

One of the amazing things about the Web is the ability to keep in touch with people even years after last seeing them. Recently, “an “old college buddy” contacted me after coming across this site while doing legal research.  It turns out that he’s an attorney in Los Angeles. Keith Turner is a litigation attorney [...]

American Bar Association’s Recession Oriented Attorney Job Market Survey

I received the following from the American Bar Association (ABA) today.  Being that I'm a labor and employment attorney, I couldn't pass up this opportunity to help the ABA conduct this survey about my profession's job market, especially in consideration of this extremely tight and disheartening job market and economy. The ABA Journal is surveying [...]

Addendum for Avvo’s Defective & Biased Lawyer Rating System

As an addendum to my last post about Avvo, check out the following: Besides taking an extraordinary amount of time to complete a profile, and besides not being able to cancel an account (i.e., "unclaim" a profile), I've discovered another issue with Avvo's online lawyer rating system. When a lawyer is in the back-end of [...]

Avvo & Their Defective Lawyer Rating System Biased Against Solos & Small Firms

After reading a recent Chicago Tribune article regarding Avvo’s (www.Avvo.com) online lawyer rating system, I decided to check out the site for myself. At first glance, the site looks interesting, useful and credible.  The same as many other online consumer, ratings, networking and other business related sites.  I enjoy these sites, use them and believe [...]

Colleague Article – Succession: An Opportunity for Growth

The Horton Group has published the following article, in its law related newsletter–Legal-EASE, written by a mutual associate of ours Michael Zolno of Zolno Consulting. All businesses, especially law firms, go through succession, which can cause a great deal of internal and external turmoil. In fact the survival of the firm may well depend upon [...]

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