Dan: Recently a number of firms have announced reductions in their secretarial ranks as a means of improving their secretary ratios – which is to say 5:1 is the new 4:1. For those not familiar with this stat – it means that the new goal is 5 timekeepers for every 1 secretary. This approach makes
Hello! And welcome to the inaugural post of our brand new “Dan and Jane” series here on 3 Geeks.
At a conference recently, a fan mentioned that she missed our old Elephant posts. We loved getting outside opinions and ideas, but frankly it was a lot of administrative work and we’re not really administrative people.
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I recently watched a TED talk by Michael Idinopulos, called Mr. Manager, tear down these (digital) walls! It’s a great talk and is well worth your while to view the entire 17 minute presentation. The story he tells beginning at the 2 minute mark
The Legal Duck is a brand new, very exclusive, and extremely expensive restaurant owned and operated by Lena Dewey and Daniel Cheatom, two of the most successful attorneys in our fair city. Last week, we sat down with Lena and Dan to discuss their new endeavor…
3 Geeks: So, what inspired you two to
How are you? So good to see you again. It’s been so long? When was the last time we…
Oh, wait. No! Somebody lock that door! Don’t let him out! You guys, each grab an arm and sit him down in this chair.
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OK. Calm down… It’s alright. No one is
I am fantabulized by the vehemential angertude with which people have arguponded Greg’s post on the word “literally”. I have no more amorosity to the upsidrong definition of literally than anyone else does, but language evolvopes. The strength of the English language is its adoptationability. Words have hardplace definitions, but they are at best temporational. In time, “literally”
I was babysitting my 4 year-old nephew last night and we were playing with a German circle puzzle. The puzzle is very much like the Chinese Tangram puzzles that are popular now, where you take the geometric pieces and try to arrange them to match images published in a booklet. The pieces of this particular
Perhaps Law.com was just fishing for traffic by choosing a controversial headline (something we at 3 Geeks would never condone!) but yesterday’s article, misleadingly entitled AFAs Trending Down in U.S. and U.K., got a lot of attention. To be fair, the data gathered in the 9th Annual Litigation Trends Survey Report, does indeed show a decrease
This post is the final part of a whitepaper written by Scott Preston and Ryan McClead. The full paper can be downloaded here.
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By now it is obvious there will be no return to the glory days of an ever-expanding legal market and steadily rising hourly rates. Legal
