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Want to Go to Law School or be a Solo? Better Call Saul!
I was not an early adopter of AMC’s Breaking Bad. I started watching midway through the last season. At the time, I thought it was the best TV show I had ever seen. But then when I got Netflix and went...
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Fear and Loathing in the Legal Profession
If you read a lot of different sources on a given subject, you start to see patterns. One pattern I’ve noticed when reading veteran lawyers talking about practicing law is the pervasiveness of fear in...
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Arbitration Jurisprudence Bad for Legal Profession
Here is a link and pdf to Judith Resnik’s Yale Law Journal Article regarding arbitration. The abstract concludes: The cumulative effect of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on arbitration has been to...
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Dealing with the Downers in the Legal Profession
Recently I’ve been following The Anxious Lawyer website and blog. The authors tackle head-on the anxiety producing aspects of practicing law. A recent article covered dealing with career setbacks. It...
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How Will Driverless Vehicles Impact Legal Industry?
Driverless vehicles are on the way. Seriously. And people are starting to consider how the driverless revolution will impact the economy. My favorite financial blogger Mish Shedlock has a post today...
View ArticleDeposition Witness Murders Clarksdale Attorney
Clarksdale attorney Ellis Pittman was murdered on Friday by a man who Pittman was suing and deposing at the time of the murder. From WMC: Pittman was suing Frazier over work he had done on his home....
View ArticleGood Advice on Dealing with Professional Stress
Judge Primeaux offered some great practice advice in this recent post on his blog. The topic is dealing with stress. The post opens: Stress takes its toll in the form of burnout, substance abuse,...
View Articlealmost back…..hopefully
I am working today for the first time in over two weeks due to a family medical emergency. Stuff has happened in my absence. There was a $2.7 million verdict in a federal court products case involving...
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The Good, The Bad and the Ugly From the Bar Economic Survey
This week the Mississippi Bar released the results from the 2014 Mississippi Bar Economic Survey. Here it is. The last survey was for 2011. The Good: Pay for associates, secretaries and legal...
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Jackson Office Occupancy Rates Are Stable
Here is CBRE’s 2015 Report on Jackson Office Occupancy Rates. The overall vacancy rate is 21.5%, roughly the same as a year ago. Downtown continues to have the largest vacancy rate at 32.6%. Highland...
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Headline on ‘Ambulance-Chasing Lawyers’ Misses the Mark
Here’s the headline from an article that was on my Zite feed last week: Google’s most expensive search keywords are for ambulance-chasing lawyers. The article goes on to explain how legal related...
View ArticleTotal Number of Mississippi Lawyers Stagnates
This WSJ law blog article led me to this ABA chart tracking state attorney populations on both a current and historical basis. According to the report, Mississippi has 7,059 attorneys. That’s up 8.6%...
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How Important is the Lawyer’s Office?
This recent article in the Atlantic asked “Do Lawyers Need Offices Anymore?” From the article: …VLP is one of several “virtual” law firms that are seeking provide legal services on the level of a...
View ArticleMDL Leadership Repeat Player Trend Sparks Criticism
A couple of weeks ago in this post about the Mikal Watts indictment I described the cadre of lawyers who serve on MDL steering committees as an oligarchy. Since then, I’ve noticed that mainstream press...
View ArticleWhy Aren’t Plaintiff Lawyers Filing More Cases?
The question of why filings are so low in Mississippi gets thrown out there quiet a bit. Defense lawyers have been asking the question for years after their pre-tort reform predictions that plaintiff...
View ArticleCops: Too Many Tackleberrys, Not Enough Hightowers
It seems like every few weeks there is a report of another ridiculous cop shooting. Last week the news was Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke killing seventeen year old Laquan McDonald by shooting...
View ArticleThe Problem of the Over-involved Client
Judge Primeaux had this post last week titled “What You Get to Decide as Attorney.” The post examined who gets to decide what in litigation: the lawyer, or the client. This is an issue for all lawyers,...
View ArticleBut I Did Stay At a Holiday Inn Express Last Night
Last week I talked about the over-involved client. And then, there is the client who reminds you of this guy: This is how lawyers sometimes feel when non-lawyer clients try to dictate trial tactics...
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Time to Shut It Down
Time to shut it down….for the year. I’m picking today as the day. I’m going out with this photo of a coffee mug that an attorney friend received as a gift. It goes with my recent posts about...
View ArticleTupelo Bolsters Reputation For Dumb Criminals
The NE Daily Journal reports that the plan of three Tupelo men to rob and kidnap Circuit Judge Paul Funderburk was foiled before it got out of the Huddle House: Three Lee County men were arrested...
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