How many times have you taken a seat next to an anonymous soul in the courtroom or CLE seminar, averted your eyes and opened up your Palm Pilot or newspaper to entertain yourself while waiting for the session to start? I’ve done that more times than I should, but I won’t be doing it anymore.
2005
Texas Bar Does What MyShingle Did Almost Three Years Ago
This article (Texas Lawyer, 6/1/05) reports on an online resource for starting a law firm that includes articles, manuals, guides – and even a place to purchase books on starting a practice. No, the article’s not reporting on MyShingle or our On Line Guide which has been up and running since December 2002 (with a…
Are the Bars Out of Touch on Ethics?
Blogger Stuart Levine of the always first rate Tax and Business Law Blog has a provocative post on the Maryland Disciplinary Committee’s Mechanical Ethics. In the post, Levine offers several examples of how the Maryland committee ignores technologic developments that facilitate the practice of law and “regularly disregards the economic consequences of its decisions.”…
US Government Recognizes Weblogs
Janell Grenier a solo who writes both Benefits Blog and Erisa Blog has let me know that the Department of Labor has included her blogs as well as others in its resource list, as she describes in this post. As Janell has suggested (and I concur), this federal recognition of blogs, particularly those operated by…
Announcing – Other Shinglers!
You’ll notice an important addition to the MyShingle sidebar – a list of "Other Shingles." There, you’ll find listed websites and weblogs for other solo and small firm practitioners. It’s a public service that will always be available free for any solo and small firm lawyer – so if you want to join the party,…
You Never Know When You Just Might Start Your Own Law Firm
To my readers who visit this site and dream of starting a law firm but are precluded from doing so because of your present circumstances, one’s for you. Because it’s never too late, as this article, More Lawyers Flee Megafirms, National Law Journal (5/31/05) suggests. Though the bulk of the article reports on large…
Outsourcing legal research is a
Outsourcing legal research is a topic that’s made the discussion rounds on various blogs, MyShingle included. Well, what about the reverse: how about exporting your firm’s expertise overseas like this Portland Maine law firm, as described in Portland law firm exporting expertise, Matt Wickenheiser, Maine Today (5/29/05). Seems that some of my fellow…
Client Endorsements Banned from NJ Lawyer Websites
And yet another stupid bar rule, this time out of New Jersey, where the Advertising Panel Lays Down Rules for Law Firm Ads on Wed: Catchy URLs OK, but not client endorsements (New Jersey Law Journal, 5/31/05). The article reports:
In two opinions published May 23, the committee says law firms are free to adopt…
New Shingles List
We’ve added names to the Shingles list, but the links are not working just yet. Stay tuned…
Proposed Disbarment of Prominent Boston Lawyers: Now, It Makes Sense
I have to admit that I was a little mystified when I read about the recent Massachusetts Discipline committee’s decision to disbar three prominent Boston attorneys, whose resumes included high government posts and stints at biglaw) biglaws. Among other things, the attorneys had duped and tormented a judge’s law clerk in hopes of gaining an…