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Leora Maccabee

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 to use [...]

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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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Why Lawyers Should Not “Quit” Facebook

September 1, 2009

Virginia Heffernan would have us believe we are experiencing a “Facebook Exodus,” or so she lamented  in the New York Times magazine this weekend. Describing the packs of former users signing off the site for good, she wondered if Facebook was no more than a college clique, doomed to become an “online ghost town, run [...]

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Twitter-sourced bar exam advice in 140 characters or less

July 22, 2009

If you are taking the bar exam next week, you are probably already getting advice from friends, family, high school buddies on Facebook, and any other random people you run into when you are not curled up beneath your BarBri study aids.
I have also been getting advice from lawyers I communicate with on Twitter, and [...]

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Legal marketing ethics in a Web 2.0 world

July 17, 2009

As I signed off of the American Bar Association’s CLE webcast and phone conference yesterday, Ethical Implications of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World, I was left, not surprisingly, with more questions than answers. The CLE provided no magic bullet or easy catch-all answer, but the speakers—Micah Buchdahl, Michael P. Downey, and Scott G. Wolfe, [...]

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When lawyers spy through Facebook: the ethics of “regional network” changes

July 8, 2009

A colleague sent me a fascinating legal ethics question today via email. Can a lawyer in City A go to Facebook and change the regional network that she lists on her personal Facebook account from City A where she lives and works as an attorney to City B in order to investigate a witness or [...]

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Why lawyers must join the Twitter news revolution

June 14, 2009

Saturday night I joined millions of Twitterers around the world to follow the news about the post-election protests in Iran in a news medium more exciting, terrifying and awe-inspiring than anything I had experienced before. I was participating in Twitter’s news revolution. It felt like news via lightning-strike.
As a former student of political science and [...]

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Bar exam studies under way? Tips from someone in your shoes

June 11, 2009

I am in your shoes
And they are tight and sweaty and uncomfortable.
The BarBri class to prepare for the bar examination (Minnesota, in my case) has taken over my mornings, afternoons, evenings, weekends, and any free time in between.
Like many of you, on top of studying, I had to move into a new apartment and a [...]

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