Five years ago this week I walked into the law offices of Jaeckle Fleishmann & Mugel well-rested. I had just finished a 4-day surprise birthday cruise my wife had put together for me to celebrate my 30th birthday. I had a great job at a well-respected firm in town. I was tan, relaxed, and had…
One of the shows I loved as a kid was Inspector Gadget. That guy had a special invention for everything. His spring shoes and giant retractable punching fist were just a part of him. They often back-fired, but he didn’t hold it against the technology. He didn’t think of the gadgets as technology but as an…
“Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1!“- C-3PO “Never tell me the odds.“-Han Solo Today March Madness begins, with play-in games in Dayton, Ohio. Millions of men, women, and children will fill out brackets with hopes of winning the Billion dollar prize for completing a 100% perfect bracket….
Would you turn down $500,000 for an hour of work? Richard Branson did. A company approached him to speak at their conference, he turned them down. They came back and said, “what if we paid you $250,000 for a one-hour talk?” He declined. They came back again and offered to send a private jet to…
This past week I’ve been up in the air, feeling much like George Clooney in the movie by the same name. I started my week in New York, woke up Tuesday in London where I spoke a law firm, went to sleep that night in Davos, Switzerland spending the next two days speaking at the…
Originally posted on The National Law Journal on February 17, 2014 In 2013, Linkedin exploded in popularity among professionals, but not all Linkedin users are created equally. Below are seven levels of Linkedin users. See if you can identify your type. – The Absentee. “I know I have a Linkedin account, but I have no clue what…
The Harvard Law Innovation Symposium (#plp_disrupt on Twitter) was one of the most amazing, intellectually stimulating, and most impressive conferences I’ve been to in the legal industry. I got back late last night from the event and I’m still scratching my head over such a great event. What was most surprising? Both Richard Susskind and…