I’ve always been intrigued by he concept of the Everlasting Gobstopper, the Willie Wonka invented candy for children with “little pocket money” that can be sucked and sucked without ever getting any smaller. Well, what if we could create an Everlasting Gobstopper of tips for solo practitioners that would be constantly replenished and never
2005
Leaving A Law Firm: Some Resources and a Request
A reader who’s currently employed but actively planning to start a firm recently posed the following question to MyShingle:
How do I announce to my current employer my intentions to start a firm and leave on friendly terms but still take the clients whom I’d like to take with me (assuming the client wants to…
Resuming Blogging
Spent the past week on a family vacation here which accounts for the blogging lull. As you can see, we’re back on track.
What Makes A Perfect Client?
Both the Legal Marketing Blog and Greatest American Lawyer have been pondering what makes a “perfect client.” I guess the answer is personal. I know many lawyers who can’t tolerate clients who want to review every document that goes out or ask too many questions. But for me, what I enjoy most is a client…
Can We Lawyers Please Stop Patting Ourselves on The Back?
What if you went to a client and boasted that in the past year, you spent 300 hours working on his case? The client would probably respond, “So what, what kind of results did you get me?” Yet apparently, the American Bar Association (whose efforts at blogging the ABA annual meeting are a little bit…
My Thoughts on Law Firm Sabbaticals – An Opportunity to Go Solo
Thanks David Giacalone for this post that lead me to an article from the Washington D.C. Bar Journal entitled, Time Out, time Off: Lawyers on Sabbatical (August 2005). The article describes that many large firm allow lawyers to take sabbaticals but that few lawyers take advantage of them. I had a couple of thoughts.
First,…
How Is this Pro Bono – Sounds Like Marketing To Me!
This Press Release (PR Newswire 8/4/05) proudly proclaims that “for the first time in the history of bioethics, a major global law firm, (that would be Milbank, Tweed) makes its legal resources available, pro bono publico, for the analysis of biotechnology and its impact on women.” The release goes on to describe that Milbank…
The ABA Conference Started Yesterday – Does Anyone Know or Care?
Yesterday was the start of the ABA’s Annual Meeting in Chicago. Bob Ambrogi reports that the Litigation Section will be blogging the highlights of the conference which gives me some reassurance that the ABA has entered the twenty first century.
Still, with so little buzz about the ABA on law related weblogs, I can’t…
Law Firm Alumni Networks Are Proof That You Shouldn’t Burn Bridges
A few months ago, we posted about the growth of law firm alumni networks. Now, there’s another article on that topic this month, Law Firms Leverage Alumni to Drum Up Business (New York Lawyer, 8/4/05). This article discusses some of the the benefits that large firms get from alumni networks, such as contacts with potential…
What I Learned At Blogher
In the interest of disclosure, I’d have to admit that I probably would have never thought to attend the first ever Blogher conference on women and blogging but for the invitation of our fearless law.com affiliate leader, Lisa Stone. As another woman admitted in the closing remarks, I’ve never attended an all woman’s event…