Small-Town Client Myth
Mark Bennett | September 30, 2009
Greeley, Colorado lawyer Todd Taylor asks, Are Money & Social Media Ruining the Legal Profession?, a bit of a paean to “small-town” practice:
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Please Join the NMDP.
Mark Bennett | September 28, 2009
My friend Josh Reiss and I were at Rice together, and now he’s a prosecutor at the Harris County DA’s Office. The love of Josh’s life, his wife Anh, is fighting a blood cancer called Myelodysplastic Syndrome, and needs a bone marrow stem cell transplant. The following is a guest post from Josh:
There are times [...]
The One Percent
Mark Bennett | September 28, 2009
Heard at the criminal courthouse:
We are 99% animal and 1% civilized, and it’s the one percent that gets us into trouble.
It’s true, I think. Not because the one percent of us that is civilized motivates us to do the bad things that get us into trouble, but because the one percent likes to pretend that [...]
Quote of the Day
Mark Bennett | September 28, 2009
Police officer to me: “I do have some questions for your client, but I’m not goofy enough to think you’re going to let him answer them.”
Recharging
Mark Bennett | September 22, 2009
I spent the weekend in trial mode, preparing for a DWI trial in Montgomery County, north of Houston. This would’ve been only my second trial in a slow year for jury trials (the first ended in an acquittal; several others have been dismissed on the eve of trial) and my client’s career was at stake, [...]
On Blogging Ethics
Mark Bennett | September 18, 2009
Popehat got comment spam. Ken wrote an entertaining post blasting the lawyer whom the comment spam was touting. The lawyer responded to the post in comments, explaining how he wasn’t really responsible for the comment spam, and Ken updated the post to remove identifiable references to the lawyer.
I have mixed feelings about that.
I’m full of [...]
No Easy Cases (Please!)
Mark Bennett | September 16, 2009
Dan Hull of What About Clients asks: Does client service mean “being nice” to clients?; he has some interesting observations about the differences between good clients and bad clients. (And if you don’t already know the answer to Dan’s question, you don’t know Dan.)
Now, Dan’s practice is very different from ours: while his firm’s ideal [...]
Cute. That’s what you’re going for?
Mark Bennett | September 16, 2009
Sad to say: If your political opponent fired his political consultants, and you hired them, you’d both be better off.
Blog Problems?
Mark Bennett | September 14, 2009
One of my readers complains that the front page of Defending People doesn’t show the latest posts. I suspect that the problem is that Greenfield needs to clear the cache on his ZX-81, but let’s humor him. Please go to http://BennettAndBennett.com/blog, and if the first post is from before September 14, 2009, email me a [...]
Blatant Shoutout to Three New Blogs
Mark Bennett | September 14, 2009
Mike at Crime and Federalism wrote back in July about How the Legal Blogosphere Has Changed:
The modern legal blogosphere sucks because it’s been overrun by legal marketers, and because people who might be able to engage in actually-interesting conversations are too busy sucking up to their e-friends and e-colleagues.
Mike’s been doing this a long time. [...]
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