Minnesota Lawyer

When you have a client who can’t come to the office during business hours, something is going to have to be sacrificed.

There are some issues that a legal education has drilled into our heads that your typical member of the public doesn’t know.

Clients have a right to know what is going on, and to a certain extent we have to keep the court and even opposing counsel in the loop on some things even when it's awkward or annoying.

Not only is it easy not to take a vacation, it’s easy not even to get out and do all the things you would normally do in the summertime to protect your sanity.

The whole first few months of the year work seems to slow down, and even existing clients seem to have problems at this time of year with paying their bills.

These are the ‘steak days’ of many clients looking harder at their bottom line.

It doesn’t matter what your area of practice; some of your clients will send you fuming emails, incoherent voicemails, or text messages that go on for pages in unabashed disregard for the 140 character intent of the format.

We can take a couple of lessons from fantasy football.

There’s a million little things to do, but they are crowded out by the big things, and when you’re a solo practitioner, you don’t get to delegate the little things.

What practitioners respond to is often what guides potential clients.