Tips Tuesday

Here are excerpts from the most recent tips on SlawTips, the site that each week offers up useful advice, short and to the point, on research, writing, and practice.

Practice

Is Your Law Firm Experiencing Growing Pains?
Sandra Bekhor

The growing pains experienced at law firms don’t usually get self-diagnosed as such. Instead, they tend to be described in terms of the series of symptoms that happen to be manifesting, often at the same time. Some examples …

Research & Writing

Phrases We Love to Misuse
Neil Guthrie

“The proof is in the pudding” This kind of makes sense, perhaps if you grew up in a culture where it is common to put a coin or other prize in a festive dessert (like the English at Christmas or the French on the jour des Rois). …