How to Get Referrals From Your Colleagues

27 October, 2017

I’m always harping on the value of referrals from current and former clients. But there is another source of referrals that is equally important: other attorneys. Often, people come to an attorney with problems that are outside of their jurisdiction or specialty. You want your colleagues to give pot...

6 Steps to Manage Terrible Online Reviews

25 September, 2017

In 2009, Amanda Bonnen tweeted about her moldy Chicago apartment to her 20 followers. Her landlord, Horizon Group Management, responded in the only reasonable way: Sue her for everything she was worth. That’s right — rather than apologize or investigate possible fungal growths in their apartments — ...

Could Websites Be Liable for Third-Party Posts?

22 September, 2017

In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, a disgusting human posted an array of trashy, mocking t-shirts on an AOL bulletin board (some of the less graphic include: “Visit Oklahoma . . . It’s a BLAST!!!”; and “McVeigh for President 1996”). This dumpster fire of a human claimed to be a guy named Ken,...

After Disaster, Rebuild Your Communities

22 September, 2017

Guest post by Chris Smith, Co-Founder of Deep Magic Marketing — From record-breaking hurricanes and floods in the East to massive wildfires in the West, it’s been a hell of a year already. And with more storms brewing on the horizon — and climate models predicting increasingly extreme weather in o...

Becoming a Neurolawyer

8 September, 2017

Traumatic Brain Injury and the fight against ‘Malingering’ I’m looking at a diagram of the human brain. In this picture it looks like a very wrinkly baseball mitt, cuddled up in the hard shell of skull. It is swaddled in three membranes all named different kinds of ‘mater&rs...

3 Trends in Discrimination Class Actions

25 August, 2017

What does the future hold for civil rights and labor lawyers?  The conflict we saw in Charlottesville bubbles up in a million different forms and discussions about free speech, discrimination, and the future of our country. One place where these questions are being addressed in less ...