Category: Wisdom

By Paula Gluzman

In today’s legal market, most entry-level lawyers switch employers within their first three years of practice, and most will likely change jobs several times during their career. As a result, new professionals will experience more job interviews in their careers, and thus will be provided with more opportunities to master the anticipated end-of-interview question: “Do you have any questions for me?” Read More

How to improve your speaking in and out of the courtroom from a lawyer comedian

By Ken Turek

Americans are more afraid of public speaking than death. To Jerry Seinfeld that means if we go to a funeral we’d rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy. I have walked off stage to a thundering ovation and have been booed off by a swearing mob. Using the same material! I’ve also had jurors tearfully cheer me after a verdict and had other times I’ve heard crickets. How can we do our best? Or at least improve our chances the boos will be polite? Here are three items to consider. Read More

By Tyler McQuillan

In the transactional context, it is easy to overlook issues of privilege under the Evidence Code in place of salient deal points. It is possible that those who entered into a transactional practice did so to avoid the burdens of the Code and its cousin, the Code of Civil Procedure. Read More

By Farah Hansen

You’ve been practicing law for five years. You’re sitting at your desk, working on a motion when you look out the window and think to yourself, “I’ve spent five years investing in this specific field of law, and I’m not really sure this is the type of law I should be practicing.” You briefly daydream about doing that nonprofit work you initially went to law school for. However, the idea of starting at the bottom or looking for another job sounds too daunting. So you push the thought to the back of your mind and get back to your motion. Read More

By George Miller

An Industry is Born

Most would not associate Philadelphia with the birth of the modern American securities industry.  Traders auctioning stocks on the street corners of downtown Manhattan instead come to mind.  But in 1790, the City of Brotherly Love spawned the nation’s first market maker. Read More