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To reduce stress, stop selling and start helping
A lawyer I was coaching recently felt his sales performance was weak. He had a few prospective clients asking him about his services and “kicking tires” but not retaining him. After discussing the specifics of one such prospective client, I asked him: “What was your goal with this person?”
BLAWG LOG: Farewell, Attorney Nathan A. Fishbach, by Michael O’Hear; Pettit: Landlords should treat tenant roommates as one person
The Milwaukee legal community lost one of its most distinguished members with the untimely passing of Nathan A. Fishbach.
BEV BUTULA: Google lands its flight search
Google’s new Flight Search launched last week. The service is designed to help online users locate deals on airfares.
Tips for avoiding legal malpractice claims
Being hit with a legal malpractice suit can be any lawyer’s worst nightmare. But staying out of trouble with your clients may be easier than you think.
THE DARK SIDE: In honor of our friend, Nathan Fishbach
It has been a summer of sorrow in the Milwaukee legal community. We lost our friends, David Cannon and Judge Terry Evans. And Saturday we lost another friend: Nathan Fishbach.
LAWBIZ COACH’S CORNER: In-house counsel should be prepared
Priorities between corporate clients and lawyers often diverge on controlling costs, but if both sides come prepared to work together, common ground can be easier to find.
LEGAL CENTS: Five ways to save with litigation management
Glendale attorney Paul Junius is a professional defendant and penny-pincher.
EDITORIAL: Making appointments
Ideally, every voter put serious thought into the state Supreme Court candidates’ qualifications before casting a ballot in the last election.
THE DARK SIDE: There is a reason we used to wear mullets
When you are an old man, eventually, the young people will demand accountability for your actions when you were young, asking questions such as, �[...]
LEGAL CENTS: Avoid radio silence if you want to bring in new clients
Have you heard about the cool media form attorneys are using to reach out to prospective clients? The one that brings in scads of new business?
What rainmakers know about persistence
Building professional relationships is critical in selling legal services, and one of the key ingredients in building professional relationships is persistence.
BLAWG LOG: Law firms can make lemonade with market jitters
Five ways a lawyer can pitch new business in today's roller coaster market.
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- Milwaukee drops security personnel ordinance
- Wisconsin Supreme Court tacks on additional months to already suspended lawyer
- Supreme Court: Abortion protester’s First Amendment rights violated
- These doctors were censured. Wisconsin’s prisons hired them anyway
- Ruling reinstates lawsuit over ‘Black Lives Matter’ school posters
- Wisconsin Supreme Court to consider whether 175-year-old law bans abortion
- Wisconsin man facing bestiality and felony bail jumping charges
- Waukesha County woman indicted in National Health Care Fraud Law Enforcement Action
- Man sentenced to 15 months for fraud involving luxury vehicles
- Wisconsin Department of Justice Fire Marshal investigating fire that killed six
- Ozaukee County first responders save family of three, father and son on Milwaukee River
- Supreme Court sends Trump immunity case back to lower court, dimming chance of trial before election
Case Digests
- Termination of Parental Rights
- First Amendment Rights
- Termination of Parental Rights
- Late Filing
- Real Estate-Attorney Fees
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- Variance-Interpretation of Zoning Ordinances
- Sentencing
- Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause-Jury Instructions
- Unlawful Collection Practices-Evidence
- Sentencing-Vindictiveness
- Prisoner Grievances-Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies
