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10 Legal Writing Tips From Bryan Garner

April 23, 2010

Bryan Garner—in true Bryan Garner fashion—just emailed his edits for this post, as noted below. I hope this note meets his legal writing approval… — Ed. I first heard of Bryan Garner while clerking for the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota. I was having a difficult time crafting an appellate brief [...]

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Start a Law Firm: Tidbits from Twitter

March 2, 2010

Last week I joined Sam Glover of Lawyerist and Blois Olson of Tunheim Partners to teach a seminar on websites, online marketing and social media to 100+ lawyers in the process of hanging out their own shingles as part of a day-long “How to How to Start & Build a Successful Law Firm” CLE. In [...]

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Online Budgeting for Young Lawyers

January 13, 2010

No one taught me to budget in law school. The financial aid folks said little more than “good luck paying off your $70,000 in debt,” and I was on my way. Years later, done with law school and thankfully bringing in some income, I was at a total loss as to how to start paying [...]

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Why Attorneys Need Local Legal Twitter Lists

December 8, 2009

I have been asked by many attorneys on Twitter how to cut down the clutter. Thousands of tweets float through your feed every minute, every hour, every day. It is so overwhelming for many of us, that sometimes it just seems easier to tune out. Sign off. Stop tweeting. Don’t give up on Twitter. Learn [...]

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Beware the Post-Bar-Exam Blues

November 3, 2009

You passed the bar but you have no job. Or you have a job, but your start date has been deferred until March and your loan repayments start in November. Or maybe you blew the bar entirely this time around. And to top it all off, Thanksgiving is just around the corner, so your whole [...]

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Uncluttering LinkedIn

October 6, 2009

I jumped onto the LinkedIn bandwagon in college, added all my classmates in law school, and reached out to old colleagues to re-connect once I was looking for new jobs and legal opportunities. I have pushed law students to join LinkedIn, told lawyers how to use LinkedIn (and other social media sites) ethically, and done one-on-one LinkedIn trainings [...]

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