This last Friday we had a great call with Raanan Bar-Cohen from Automattic (the company behind the open source project known as WordPress.)  Having worked with Time Magazine and the Wall Street Journal with their technology  he had some great insights on protecting your blog and making the most of the WordPress platform.  He also…

Lawyers used to be great deal makers, but the deal makers seem to have joined the witness relocation program. Where have they all gone? Here is the latest deal: “As lawyers we will work hard for you, it will be very expensive- but you will get high quality legal work.” “How much will it cost?”…

Each year DLA Piper puts on one of the foremost real estate conferences in America.  You would think that at a conference like this they would want to highlight their best and brightest attorneys, but they don’t.  In fact, I learned yesterday at the Law Firm Business Development Forum (where many of you have seen…

Yesterday morning I woke up early to make my wife breakfast in bed for Mother’s day.  I didn’t have buttermilk for my waffle recipe, so I mixed milk and lemon juice to make my own buttermilk.  It actually works quite well, it needs to sit for about 5 minutes to go sour, so I figured…

“Nobody we do business with reads blogs.” “I just can’t imagine one of our current clients participating in a LinkedIN group.” “I’m not sure my clients would like it if they saw that I was using Twitter.” We have all heard the complaints about social media. We have all heard the opinion of law firm…

It was a warm sunny afternoon in December when I first met Ken Colburn.  Since we were in Pheonix, it came as no surprise to me that Ken pulled up in a red convertible 68 Camaro.  He was wearing sunglasses and trying every bit to play the movie star. We sat down at a great…