Aaron Street

Law School Career Services Fail, But There Are Fixes

January 5, 2010

Law school career services offices at many schools are currently failing to serve their students. After my post “Applying to Law School? Please Reconsider!,” Lawyerist Contributor Randall Ryder made the comment: “. . . If you want to go to law school, and really want to practice law, an opportunity will present itself––or you can [...]

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Applying to Law School? Please Reconsider!

December 17, 2009

Think you want to apply to law school? It might be time to rethink your application decision. While law school admissions are at an all-time high, law jobs are disappearing. Maybe forever. Signs of a law school application bubble The concurrent trends of increasing legal education cost, decreasing legal employment, and strong debt insulation are [...]

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My ScanSnap Crashed; It Just Needed a Quick Fix

December 2, 2009

Regular Lawyerist readers know how much we love our Scan Snap s1500 scanners. I have been running Lawyerist from a paperless office for many months now. Yesterday I went to scan a business expense reimbursement receipt and the ScanSnap Manager software crashed on me. I rebooted the computer, but it crashed again. Thankfully, I was [...]

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The One Secret to Online Legal Marketing

November 5, 2009

Too many law firm web pages are designed like business cards or thick brochures. They often either have too little information (just a single page with the firm name and contact information) or are loaded with it (paragraph after paragraph listing specialties, experience, and biographical details). The designers of these sites think to themselves: “I [...]

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Add Some Emotion to Your Client Invoices

October 29, 2009

If you have occasional trouble collecting from clients, you might want to consider experimenting by tapping their emotions with your next invoice.

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Tap the Hidden Talent in Your Law Firm

October 12, 2009

A variety of recent studies show that employees’ skills are regularly underutilized. By tapping some of these currently-unknown skills, law firms can find new opportunities for business development, cost savings, and added profitability. For instance, you might—unknowingly—have an associate who could help with online marketing during slow times, or a secretary with a great idea [...]

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