Today, I got a response from Avvo to yesterday’s post (and other posts) criticizing them. Below is the comment to that post. Conrad from Avvo said, December 5, 2010 @ 10:26 am Charles – not every lawyer appreciates the transparency that Avvo has brought to the legal industry, yet this is exactly what consumers want and [...]
Because of my public criticism of Avvo, and their defective rating system, I get a lot of comments about them. A brief summary of my crticism is that it’s biased against small and solo firms because larger firms have greater wherewithal to manage the extremely cumbersome Avvo profile process, and because Avvo won’t let an [...]
On Wednesday, December 2, 2010, I'll be presenting for the Chicago Bar Association's Business Law Committee's monthly lunch meeting at the Chicago Bar Association's building on 321 S. Plymouth St., Chicago. The topic of my presentation concerns employment handbooks and policies--why (or why not) businesses should use them, which policies to use and how to [...]
Excerpts from the following article are also available on Slate.com's BizBox small business blog. It appears that our mid-term election results will probably have little impact for small-to-medium sized businesses in the immediate future (the remainder of 2010 into the first quarter of 2011). More specifically, there doesn't appear to be any clear message sent [...]
I'm very excited to announce that in mid-October, I was elected to the Board of Directors for Youth Outreach Services (YOS), http://www.yos.org/. Started in Chicago in 1959, YOS is a fully accredited and licensed child advocate that provides counseling, intervention, preventive care (e.g., health), housing and family services, like foster care & transitional living programs [...]
