Being a female lawyer has a few perks: the money can be good, the prestige can be great. But as the saying goes, it is lonely at the top. I started thinking about all of this after my esteemed colleague, Toby a/k/a @gnawledge, passed me a dating site for lawyers. He’s heard a number
Are You Ready to Augment Your Reality?
I got it! I got it! I got it today! I was so, so happy–when I came home tonite something told me to pick up my mail and to my distinct pleasure I had received the December issue of Esquire; “henceforth to be known as the Genius Issue,” to quote Robert Downey, Jr. Why,
What a Girl Wants, What a Girl Needs
I read a great study about the difference between Generation X and Generation Y female online activity.According to PopSugar Media—isn’t that a great name, by the way?—two-thirds of female Gen Xers rely on female Gen Yers to define pop culture trends. And female Gen Yers are twice as likely as female Gen Xers to
Are We Dead Yet?
I read with great interest a NYT article, “Virtual Estates Lead to Real-World Headaches” that analyzed the death of an online relationship in Second Life. Apparently, a couple married, bought an island and built a house–all on Second Life. Last year, the man died of liver failure.
With the push of a button, the man’s
Law Firms and the Cult of Personality
I have been thinking about the cult of personality lately. As geeks, we always like to think we are so nouveau, so cutting-edge in our attempts to lasso technology. Especially in the social media arena. Our pink-haired, horn-rimmed nerdy selves keep trying to out-tweet, out-blog and out-optimize one another in an effort to be ahead
Scared of the “C” Word? Then You Shouldn’t Be in Social Networking
Remember my blog where I compared legal marketing to dating?
I stand by my previous metaphor and I add yet more: social networking is true test of your commitment to your law firm. Yes, the big “C” word: commitment.
For social networking to truly sing, you can’t just be friends with your social networking
The Fly or Buy Phenomenon
I remember in the period following 9/11, I was making a killing on eBay.
I don’t mean to sound crass or opportunistic. It is just the truth.
I remember sitting on my couch for days, tethered to our newly bought television (not so fortuitously purchased on 9/10) and drenched in the despair and sadness of
Finding Rainmakers During a Drought
I’ve been wondering how law firm summer recruiting programs are faring this year.
I wonder how closely partners are scrutinizing this year’s crop of summer clerks for their ability to generate revenue rather than fighting other firms for over what was once perceived as a limited pool of talent.
I suspect that prior years’ rush-type
To President Obama: To Err is Human
For reasons I won’t go into now, I don’t watch TV. If I can’t watch it online, I’m not doing it. So when the President was inaugurated or when he was giving an important speech, I watched it online via streaming video. Tonight I missed Obama’s speech to the Joint Session. And when I went
Google and Privacy, cont'd.
Interesting turn of events: Vogue model Liskula Cohen won the right to force Google to unmask a blogger who defamed her character.
Taking a turn from Toby’s previous post on Google’s Gmail, I have to raise an eyebrow.
On the one hand, Google claims that they have a right to scan all of your e-mail