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What are you doing with your stuff?

What are you doing with your unwanted stuff from home, the office, between the cushions of your car? Now you can place it on Listia for others to “bid” on while earning points you can use to bid on their stuff.

Points are used as tokens and no real money changes hands. The site intends to go Craiglist one better. The service resembles Lawrex, a website developed by a friend of mine some years ago … although in a very different context.

Feedback:  If you’ve used Listia or have an opinion about it, sound off in the comments or contact me at mhedayat@mha-law.com.

According to Carolyn “My Shingle” Elefant at Blog Watch, this cat Afif Ghannoum started a practice by staffing his office on Craigslist. According to Carolyn:

Back in the olden days, when lawyers sought to start or expand a law practice they’d place a pricey advertisement in a hard-copy legal trade publication or retain a placement firm … [b]ut now it’s possible to build a new law firm … using Craigslist. That’s how former BigLaw associate Afif Ghannoum, founder of theGhannoum Law Firm, did it, drawing on close to 500 respondents to staff his new firm’s life-science and bio-technology practice. [Read more at Legal Blog Watch].

Here’s the thing. I guess we all knew 5 years ago as Craiglist became more of a household name that someday it would be good for more than just buying and selling second-hand Ikea furtniture. So really this is more a case of teaching a new dog old tricks, right? Now if the firm were getting the bulk of its business on Craiglist that would be interesting. Or Facebook. Or Twitter. Or Avvo. You get the point. But still interesting.