Weekend Open Thread
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OK, maybe I'm a little obsessed with clutches lately, but there are so many great deals… including this fabulous deco-inspired clutch from Reiss. Love the magenta color and the faceted look. It was $210, now $105 at Reiss. Comet Metal Frame Clutch
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Sales of note for 6/27/25:
- Nordstrom – Almost 1500 new markdowns for women — and the Anniversary Sale preview has started!
- Ann Taylor – Semi-Annual Sale! Extra 50% off sale, and $50 off every $100 you spend, including new arrivals.
- Athleta – Semi-Annual Sale starts now, up to 70% off
- Banana Republic Factory – July Fourth Event, 50-70% off everything + extra 20% off everything
- Boden – Sale up to 50% off
- Eloquii – Extra 50% off all sale.
- J.Crew – End of season sale, extra 60% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – All-Star Sale, 40-70% off entire site and storewide and extra 50% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Sitewide Sale, save 25% with code — this week only! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Rothy's – Up to 50% off seasonal faves, plus new penny loafers and slingbacks
- Spanx – End-of-season sale
- Talbots – 50% off all T by Talbots, 40% off rest of your purchase
And some of our latest threadjacks here at Corporette (reader questions and commentary) — see more here!
Some of our latest threadjacks include:
- what should I pick for our company-branded conference swag?
- what non-sneaker shoes can you walk a mile in?
- I'm 31 and feel like my life is too stagnant…
- which emojis fill you with rage?
- how can I make house guests more comfortable?
- my friend is at her wit's end with her SAHP
- when is it time to quit therapy?
- why is it so hard to stay on top of school communications for my teen?
- what hobbies or skills do you wish you'd picked up during the pandemic?
- how can I better enjoy domestic business travel?
- older parents: what actually mattered and what didn't with your kids?
- am I being petty by wanting to delete all of my how-to-do-this-job guides before I quit?
Am I the only nerd who totally, completely loved Blair’s wedding dress (that she’s NOT wearing after all) on Gossip Girl?
I hate weather related cancellations so much. I spent an extra night away from home to help with a program at work only to have a snow storm (not a blizzard or anything really bad) which has caused half the attendees to cancel and the other half are up in the air….
I could be home right now with a book and my dog and instead I’m stuck an hour and a half away for something that probably won’t happen.
*rant over*
My firm has a client that needs an attorney in the Toronto area to handle a collections matter The client is based in the midwest and shipped the goods to a company in Mississauga who never paid. Any recommendations Canadian Corporettes? Or idea idea where I could find a listing of collections firms in that area that I could vet for the client? TIA!
Post an email address and I may be able to help you! I live and work in the area.
I’m at a national firm, in the Calgary office, so I can suggest several lawyers from my firm’s Toronto office…
My personal email is tyty84 at yahoodotcom if you want to send me your info/recommendations via email. Thanks!
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Need help in how to explain politely and gently to my primary mentor that something is a bad idea. I’m dual assigned to two groups, one that I love , but that has very little work (we’ll call this Specialty Practice) and one that I don’t love but that is very busy (we’ll call this M&A).
The partner in charge of Specialty Practice has decided that we need to be down with the blogs and the twitters and such, and so that we should start a blog on Specialty Industry. The problem is that partner doesn’t understand that it takes an enormous amount of time and effort to make a blog successful, nor does he get that blogs need to have a viewpoint to be interesting. Essentially, he thinks that if we just post summaries of news articles a few times a week, it will be successful.
I should add that this partner doesn’t read blogs himself, and thought that the primary way people accessed them was by having links to the entries emailed to them. When I suggested we should look at the traffic stats for other blogs the firm operates, to see how many people they’re actually reaching, he didn’t understand what I was talking about.
Why do I care? Because, of course, he wants me to do this (create the blog, write the entries, promote and manage it). Also of course, this is non-billable. I am currently billing about 2000 hours a year in M&A, so it’s not like I have a lot of time. I can’t just turn him down flat because he’s been a huge advocate for me and because we haven’t had work in Specialty Practice in months, and I fear that if I just refuse, I’ll look like I don’t care about my future as a Specialty Lawyer. I see this project as a major waste of time, but need to figure out how to convince him of that, and ideally, have him think he realized that on his own.
Does your firm have a social media coordinator? If not, do you have the budget to hire a social media consultant?
I would start by having the social media person develop a work plan for the blog. Once your boss has had a sit-down with a social media professional and learned from an expert what it entails, he’ll likely decide to either scrap it or put a non-attorney in charge. It sounds like maybe what he really wants is a weekly round-up email of developments in your speciality, not a blog, and that’s a lot more achievable.
If you use search engine optimization it could actually bring a lot of traffic to your firm. My prior firm did this and it really wasn’t that time consuming. You could also farm out posts to first years or something. I wrote a few posts and they took me about 20 minutes each. The key is to do some research on google ad words before you write. Sometimes there is a big difference between a title that says Drunk Driving Defense in Washington versus Defending Drunk Driving in Washington. You want to find a title that ad words says will give you lots of hits but that also has low competition. Then you use the phrase in your title, a tag, a subtitle and somewhere in the body of the post. Then, whenever someone googles “defending drunk driving in Washington” your blog is the first hit. From your blog, they find your firm.
I actually get a lot of my local family law updates from a local lawyers blog. She doesn’t advertise it. I google a new law I hear about and the first hit is her blog so I read it. If someone calls me for a case in an area of law I don’t cover but I read about on her blog, I tell them to call her firm.
If you are going to take this on, maybe you can work out a deal where you get origination credit for any case that comes in via a client who learns of the firm through the blog.