I started out my legal career as a litigator. For years I read every book I could find on trial practice and technique. One message kept coming to me loud and clear: to be effective in a courtroom, you need to prepare … and then prepare again. I have carried this message with me into my career as a business attorney and businessman.
In this Saturday's New York Times, writer Joe Nocera (Pulitzer prize finalist) writes about standing in line on Thursday, March 12 to see Bernie Madoff plead guilty... speaking with victims of Madoff's chicanery. In Nocera's unscientific survey of victims, he found that many of them want "justice" - in the form of government assistance (e.g. tax
Last week's blog entry was about the mindset and strategies we all need to bring to the economic crisis, the goals being both survival and prosperity. I would be remiss in discussing any challenge without focusing on the subject of persistence. In both good times and bad, an unwillingness to give in to circumstance is critical for success in
No one knows when the meltdown is going to end. I am predicting 24 months. My guess is as good as anyone else's. However, after studying successful people for 30+ years, I do feel I have insight into the approaches of those who will survive and prosper during and after the meltdown. Here are four of my top ten (more to follow): 1. Yesterday is
Last Friday's (January 30) New York Times front page included an article about legal fees: "Billable Hours Giving Ground at Law Firms." This article raised the question whether clients were being treated fairly when the measure of a legal fee is the attorney's time expended. An obvious concern is whether an attorney compensated solely on the
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