Practicing Law

Book Review of “Your Witness-Lessons on Cross Examination and Life From Great Chicago Trial Lawyers”

A few months ago, I received a complimentary copy of the book Your Witness-Lessons on Cross Examination and Life From Great Chicago Trial Lawyers edited by Steven Molo and James Figliulo, from Carrie Wallick, Assistant Publicist, Planned Television Arts, and published by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company. Here’s the description that I received from Carrie [...]

New Web Page – Client Testimonials

Check out my new web page — Client Testimonials. For obvious reasons, this will give prospective clients and readers a more objective sense of what I'm about and how I conduct myself as a professional.  In short, I emphasize customer service as much as my legal skills. Of course, I have to qualify these testimonials [...]

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 [...]

Additional Questions From Reader About Starting Own Management Side Employment Law Practice & My Answers to Him

Thanks, Charles. This is really great. I have some follow-up questions on a few of the topics you raised. If you could address some of these questions in your post as well, that would be fantastic. Websites What is your opinion about the usefulness of blogging for gaining business? Several articles I’ve read suggest this [...]

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