Monday, September 29, 2008

When what you deserve and your sense of entitlement don't match

Most of you have probably already seen this article from the law journal, but it is worth a late posting by me, even if for nothing more than to emphasize that greed often accompanies unprofessionalism and is plain ugly.
http://www.law.com/jsp/nylj/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202424738820

Friday, September 19, 2008

Your thoughts on why we aren't liked

Fifty (50%) of you voted that the cause of the public's perception that lawyers act with less than the utmost integrity is changes in the practice of law that are increasingly modelling corporate practice.

So, essentially you are saying that the public is right (the public, indeed in never wrong) and it is not mere perception; things have actually changed and it is only natural that attitudes would change too (unfortunately for the worse).

Well, let's hope that those changing practices do not lead to a meltdown in the legal world akin to what is going on in the financial world, because the chances for the government bailing us out would be even less likely . . . .

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

What is going on?

There appears to be a lull in the discourse of professionalism these last couple of weeks. Is it because with the arrival of new associates everyone is on their best behavior? Or is it because summer is over and everyone is concentrating on back to billing?



Take a minute out to comment and let me know. I hate to be in the dark.