The 20 Golden Rules
- Behave yourself
- Answer the phone
- Return your phone calls
- Pay your bills
- Keep your hands off your clients' money
- Tell the truth
- Admit ignorance
- Be honorable
- Defend the honor of your fellow attorneys
- Be gracious and thoughtful
- Value the time of your fellow attorneys
- Give straight answers
- Avoid the need to go to court
- Think first
- Define your goals: Remember you are first a professional, then a business man - If you seek riches become a business man and hire an attorney
- Remember- there is no such thing as billing 3,000 hours a year
- Tell your clients how to behave- if they can't, they don't deserve you as their attorney
- Solve problems- don't become one
- Have ideals you believe in
- Don't do anything that you wouldn't be proud to tell your mother about