The new Practice blog has some good tips on purchasing malpractice insurance, with the best for lawyers who practice in California. Apparently, there’s a malpractice insurance prgoram that starts at $500 a year. That’s the cheapest quote I’ve every heard – and it’s great news for those just starting out.
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Face Time Still Matters
Quick tip from the Legal Marketing Blog: even in a high tech, remote access world, face time with clients still matters.
Will the Yellow Pages Yellow With Age?
Here’s an interesting post from Lawyer Advertising Blog entitled Yellow Page Advertising for Lawyers: Where Have All the Calls Gone? According to the post, lawyers are reporting decreased calls from Yellow Pages advertising but are afraid to cut their losses and lose their ad. Other professionals have reported similar results. The post identifies the reasons…
A Marketing Blog to Follow
This blog, Duct Tape Marketing looks like a great addition for your daily feeds. I especially like Jill Konrath’s channel, Selling to Big Companies. Why? Well, most resources for solos tell us ways to pick up individual clients or small businesses. Nothing wrong with that, of course; I’m proud that we solo and small…
Podcast on Opening A Practice
So, who’s been a solo long enough to remember when Jay Foonberg’s How to Start and Build a Law Practice was the only game in town? These days, not only do the bar associations offer plentiful resources (many of which are listed here at our OnLine Guide), but weblogs like Greatest American Lawyer, Home…
A MyShingle Poll
My readers have probably realized that for the past couple of months I’ve been posting in spurts and clumps at a rate of two to three days a week. I’ve been too busy to post every day and after much effort, am too disciplined to allow myself to spend any daylight hours getting carried away…
Solo Defends Blogger Anonymity
Via this post at Greatest American Lawyer, I learned about the recent Delaware Supreme Court ruling that an elected official who’s been criticized by an anonymous blogger cannot use a defamation suit to compel disclosure of the blogger’s identity wihtou substantial evidence to prove the claim. (See New York Times story). But what really…
A Plug for Small Firms for Big Clients
As Patrick Lamb points out in this blog post (also referencing this post from The Wired GC), general counsels at large companies are getting tired of the fixation on the billable hour. As Wired GC explains, billable hour not only increases the cost of legal services, but it’s making mid level associates miserable –…
Marketing for Associates, er, Prospective Shinglers
Larry Bodine’s recently launched Associate Marketing Blog offers this year-by-year Associate Marketing Checklist to help large firm associates identify and attain business development goals. Anyone at a large firm who aspires to hang their own shingle or eventually work part time and raise a family, ought to be following – and in fact, even accelerating…
Can You Recognize When A Court Opines, Asserts or Declares?
This article, Curb Your Editorial Urges When Describing a Court’s Actions, Kenneth Oettle (NJLJ) (10/5/050) finally clarified for me the subtle differences in verbs like recognized, observed, ruled, held and others that describe how a court acted. As a general rule of thumb, here’s how the author feels about some of these verbs:
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