Newly Licensed Solo Reprimanded for Exaggerating Experience in Online Profiles

A solo practitioner licensed to practice law in 2010 has been reprimanded for exaggerating his experience on law firm websites and in online profiles. The South Carolina Supreme Court says in a public reprimand released today that Dannitte Mays Dickey mischaracterized his legal skills through misleading statements on two websites…

Feb 1, 2012 4:42 PM CST

Skadden Tops Research Co.‘s List of Strongest Law Firm Brands, Survey Says

What are some of the best-known BigLaw brands in the United States? Survey results released this week by the Acritas brand research company show that Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom tops the list, the Am Law Daily reports. Rounding up the top five are Jones Day, Kirkland & Ellis,…

Jan 31, 2012 12:28 AM CST

May Lawyers Offer Groupon Deals? New York Ethics Opinion Allows It, with Caveats

Lawyers who want to market discounted services with Groupon or similar websites won’t run afoul of state ethics rules if guidelines are followed, according to a New York ethics opinion. The money paid to the website running the ad is not an improper referral fee, as long as it is…

Jan 26, 2012 1:50 PM CST

Around the Blawgosphere: Does Lawyer Who Offered Groupon Have Regrets?; Digital Death Plans

A Groupon Pioneer Looks Back On Jan. 19, 2011, when An ethics subcommittee of the North Carolina State Bar was deciding whether a lawyer in the state could ethically offer a Groupon deal, Craig Redler talked to the ABA Journal about his 2010 Groupon offer of a will and durable…

Jan 20, 2012 2:33 PM CST

Law Firms Discount ‘Rack Rates,’ While Boutiques’ Flat Fee Deals Put Pressure on Billable Hour

A law firm created in 2010 by two former lawyers from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has quadrupled its client billings with an emphasis on alternative fees. The firm, ZwillGen, was formed by lawyers Marc Zwillinger and Christian Genetski, the Washington Post reports. It has grown from four to eight lawyers…

Jan 17, 2012 1:52 PM CST

Around the Blawgosphere: Victorious Lawyers in Heller Case Got Chump Change, Bloggers Say

Reeling over Fees Decision In 2008, small-firm lawyer Alan Gura prevailed at the U.S. Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller, which struck down D.C.’s handgun ban. The same year, Gura and the other lawyers for Heller sought more than $3 million for the work they put in over…

Jan 13, 2012 2:58 PM CST

Firms Need to Offer More Than Legal Expertise to Win Clients In 2012, Experts Say

Successful law firms will need to focus on more than just the legal matters at hand to make clients happy in 2012, two legal consultants predicted this week. Increased competition for legal work, says Joel F. Henning of Joel Henning & Associates and Joseph B. Altonji, principal of LawVision Group,…

Jan 5, 2012 2:38 PM CST

Force for Good: Public Counsel Law Center’s New App Connects Lawyers, Clients

Jan 1, 2012 9:50 AM CST

Lawyer with Famous Political Name Sees Uptick in Blog Traffic

He’s no politician, but an Alabama lawyer is seeking an uptick in blog traffic as a result of his famous name. J. Robert Bentley is an Oneonta, Ala., lawyer and a self-described “flaming liberal,” the Anniston Star reports. Robert J. Bentley is the Alabama governor who signed a controversial immigration…

Dec 14, 2011 11:30 AM CST

Around the Blawgosphere: Law Bloggers’ Faves from our Annual List; Is Siri the New Google?

What the Legal Bloggers Click On While we always note which blawgs in the Blawg 100 generated the most votes from readers, we’re also certainly interested in which ones are favored by legal bloggers (when they tout blawgs other than their own). And three different Blawg 100 authors made a…

Dec 9, 2011 5:38 PM CST

The 5th Annual ABA Journal Blawg 100

On our 5th birthday, you’ll see some familiar faces at the party: bloggers who’ve been on our list in years past. But 2011 also brought along a lot of newcomers, and we’re delighted that so many RSVP’d our invitation to nominate their favorites. We received more than 1,300 Blawg Amici…

Dec 1, 2011 11:20 AM CST

Lights, Camera, New Business: Video Shows Human Side of Practice

Dec 1, 2011 8:50 AM CST

Around the Blawgosphere: Above the Law’s ‘Contrarian’ Writer; Blogging Under the Marketing Influence

Changing of the Guard This week, Above the Law introduced The Practice, a small-firms column by Miami criminal defense lawyer Brian Tannebaum—which presumably replaces Small Firms, Big Lawyers, which was written by Boston solo-turned-consultant Jay Shepherd and ran from February through September. What Tannebaum says he’ll be writing about, in…

Nov 4, 2011 1:49 PM CDT

Around the Blawgosphere: Lawyer Bloggers and Disclaimers; The ‘Ten Crack Commandments’ in Practice

Legal Blogging v. Advertising Late last week, the Virginia State Bar ruled that Richmond, Va., lawyer Horace Hunter, who posts at Richmond Criminal Defense News, sometimes about his own cases, must add a disclaimer to his blog to indicate that it’s advertising. Some legal bloggers are trying to figure out…

Oct 28, 2011 1:51 PM CDT

Lawyer Lands in Ethics Trouble After Cousin Spiffs Up Law Firm Website with Certification Seal

The New Jersey Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in the ethics case of an employment lawyer whose website displayed a certification seal though he wasn’t certified. Employment lawyer Ty Hyderally says he was unaware that the website for his 14-lawyer employment firm displayed the seal until he was…

Oct 28, 2011 12:28 PM CDT