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A few more observations about lawyers
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:20 pm
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:20 pm
I've posted here about the law firm that moved in next door to us a few months ago. They're in and out of our office and vice versa, and they hang out in the common areas. I talk to them and hear them talking among themselves. After monitoring them in their native habitat for a while, here are a few more remarks:
They're terrible managers of money. They don't seem to understand the process by which money flows in and out of their firm, even the ones with business degrees. Whatever they learned in undergrad seems to have flown out of their heads. They'll be filing suit to repossess some nimrod's boat while at the same time they're behind on the payments on their own boat.
Once in a while you see in the news that a major firm gets ripped off by a low level employee to the tune of hundreds of thousands or even millions, and I can see why. These guys are at the mercy of the people who keep things running behind the scenes, and they don't seem to understand the kind of financial and information security necessary to protect their own interests, even while dealing with it regarding the people and entities they represent.
Many of them also have a problem with time management. They'll sit around on their arse for days, then work in a frenzy on five different things at once.
Laziness is also a trait with some of them. Send the secretary to the clerk's office to look up some shite, have her plug the information into a deed, sit by and look wise while the parties sign on the dotted line. What a life.
TL:DR, FWIW, Dear Diary, etc. More to come, maybe.
They're terrible managers of money. They don't seem to understand the process by which money flows in and out of their firm, even the ones with business degrees. Whatever they learned in undergrad seems to have flown out of their heads. They'll be filing suit to repossess some nimrod's boat while at the same time they're behind on the payments on their own boat.
Once in a while you see in the news that a major firm gets ripped off by a low level employee to the tune of hundreds of thousands or even millions, and I can see why. These guys are at the mercy of the people who keep things running behind the scenes, and they don't seem to understand the kind of financial and information security necessary to protect their own interests, even while dealing with it regarding the people and entities they represent.
Many of them also have a problem with time management. They'll sit around on their arse for days, then work in a frenzy on five different things at once.
Laziness is also a trait with some of them. Send the secretary to the clerk's office to look up some shite, have her plug the information into a deed, sit by and look wise while the parties sign on the dotted line. What a life.
TL:DR, FWIW, Dear Diary, etc. More to come, maybe.
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Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:23 pm to Jim Rockford
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Send the secretary to the clerk's office to look up some shite, have her plug the information into a deed, sit by and look wise while the parties sign on the dotted line. What a life.
Meh, that's saving the client money to be honest.
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They're terrible managers of money.
Generally true, in my opinion.
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they don't seem to understand the kind of financial and information security necessary to protect their own interests, even while dealing with it regarding the people and entities they represent.
Kind of true, but changing. Cyber security is becoming more important, and law firms are becoming more aware.
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Many of them also have a problem with time management. They'll sit around on their arse for days, then work in a frenzy on five different things at once.
Maybe.
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:25 pm to Jim Rockford
it's funny because it's generally pretty accurate We've got great support staff at my firm. Just the best, folks.
This post was edited on 12/14/16 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:25 pm to Mo Jeaux
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Many of them also have a problem with time management. They'll sit around on their arse for days, then work in a frenzy on five different things at once.
Maybe.
I mean, this is just sort of the nature of law. I see it in litigation and corporate, you have lulls and you have frantic periods. Sometimes the latter can be lessened with planning, but there are a lot of variables that can prevent you from getting a head start on things.
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:30 pm to Mo Jeaux
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Kind of true, but changing. Cyber security is becoming more important, and law firms are becoming more aware.
The larger firms are already very much involved in cybersecurity and take it quite seriously.
I say that as a cybersecurity analyst/engineer for a major law firm.
The interesting part is that it has become mostly client-driven. We have some big name clients, and just about all of them require a yearly completion of an information security questionnaire/audit...some over 300 questions. Not a "you should do this", but a "if you want our business you WILL do this."
This post was edited on 12/14/16 at 12:31 pm
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:33 pm to Centinel
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The interesting part is that it has become mostly client-driven. We have some big name clients, and just about all of them require a yearly completion of an information security questionnaire/audit...some over 300 questions. Not a "you should do this", but a "if you want our business you WILL do this."
True. We've had a few mandatory cyber security sessions, and our CTO was talking about this.
Posted on 12/14/16 at 12:36 pm to Jim Rockford
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They're terrible managers of money.
If they're having personal money problems, that's one thing. But, my bosses have the barely able to make payroll while simultaneously living like millionaires thing going on and I believe it's calculated and intentional -- run all your personal costs through the office and show no profits.
This post was edited on 12/14/16 at 12:37 pm
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