How lawyers can leverage personal connections to build practices
Lawyers can grow practices by leveraging personal connections. Asking questions, offering help, and identifying the right contacts turn networking into service rather than sales.
Plan now to grow your firm and yourself in ’25
By Jay Sullivan Some legal practice areas slow down at year-end, and some grow busier. There isn’t a typical “busy season” for the law. What never slows down is the […]
Help new associates launch careers with confidence
By Jay Sullivan Law firms are organic entities. They grow, they evolve, they expand their capabilities, and they incorporate and absorb new people. All firms experience growing pains when someone […]
Business Law
- Economy forces attorneys to get down to business
- Business Court judges trawl for customers
- Va. company's Web site did not subject business to personal jurisdiction in S.C., appeals panel rules
- Former running back from S.C. wins courtroom victory in contract dispute
- Contract – Government Contract – Qui Tam – False Claims Act
- Consumer Protection – FCRA – Auto Loan – Bank Accounting Errors
- Tort – Business Tort – Va. Computer Crimes Act – Trade Secrets
Commentary
- Off the record: Sealing evictions and restoring housing security
- Legally Speaking: How communication failures turn disputes into lawsuits
- We tore out our own backup generator
- When is a PIP an adverse employment action?
- Legally Speaking: What spring can teach us about active listening
- A useful patent management government notice
- The third option: Why your best employees are quietly losing their edge












