Email is merely information transmitted via the cloud—and all lawyers routinely send confidential messages and attachments via email. It’s how business has been done since Marty McFly hopped in the DeLorean. But today the FBI is warning lawyers ...
Jim Brashear - May 24, 2022Shifting your perspective can elevate your mood and bring you to new creative solutions.
Jamie Spannhake - May 24, 2022It's one of the fundamentals they drummed into you in law school: It is your job to know the answers. That's why clients seek your help, right? How you prove you are smart, and why they pay your bills? Well, yes and no. In many cases, it's less ...
Merrilyn Astin Tarlton - May 20, 2022The most brilliant trial attorneys seem to have a natural instinct in reading people, knowing intuitively what every nod from a juror or glance from a judge implies. For the rest of us, there’s this handy cheat sheet that breaks down some of the ...
Mary Ellen Sullivan - May 20, 2022Teddy Snyder | So many syllables. So many other word choices.
Theda C. Snyder - May 10, 2022Jay Harrington | Persuasive writing follows a path laid thousands of years ago by Aristotle, the original master of persuasion.
Jay Harrington - May 2, 2022What if it sucks? What if a Senior Partner hates it? Is this the right word? Is it? Oh God, I don’t know if that’s the right word! WHAT WORDS ARE? WHO THEY WRITE STUFF!
Bull Garlington - April 27, 2022Mediation has its own vocabulary. Lawyers who know it can best manage the process to produce the optimum result. Tips from Teddy Snyder.
Theda C. Snyder - April 27, 2022Teddy Snyder | Your job is to persuade. Avoid condescending phrases that are more likely to repel the listener.
Theda C. Snyder - April 13, 2022"Get to the Point!" is a huge fan of working the heck out of your dictionary to improve your writing. But is Google better?
Theda C. Snyder - April 10, 2022