Via Ben Cowgill, I learned about Jim Calloway’s announcement about the Oklahoma Bar’s website for Starting A Law Firm. Even if you’re not starting a practice in Oklahoma, there’s quite a bit that you can learn from the resources at the site.
March 2006
And yet another (2) solo blogs…
As if it weren’t enough that multiple bloggers continue to go solo, the number of blogs on solo practice are also proliferating. Welcome three newcomers, Ray Dowd of Small Firm Life, Victor Medina’s Solo Law Practice Blog, and Take the Fifth (launched in December 2005) about an Estate Planning attorney building a…
A Supreme Solo No More
As more law firm bloggers turn solo (including this one), Supreme small firm lawyer Tom Goldstein, bucks the trend with his recent announcement that he’s moving on to join a large firm. I’ve got mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand, Tom’s move is testament to my belief that solo practice…
How to Be Super Efficient
I like to think that I’m pretty good at multi-tasking but reading this post by Greatest American Lawyer tired me out. In a couple of three minute intervals that would have otherwise gone wasted, GAL added two items to the firm extranet, Practicing Law from the Kitchen Table and in the Car, dictated instructions to…
Counsel on “Of Counsel” Agreements
Frequently, either in emails to this site or on my listserves, I see questions by lawyers asking about “of counsel” arrangements, from how to find these relationships to what kind of contract should be used to memorialize them. So I was happy to see that
Dennis Kennedy has done the work for us with this…
More Bar Silliness: Heavy Hitter is Misleading
A Nevada attorney, Glen Lerner, is challenging an ethics decision that prohibits him from calling himself “The Heavy Hitter,” according to this article, Lawyer to Sue Over Heavy Hitter Name. What’s even sillier than the title “Heavy Hitter” is the bar’s reason for banning it: the bar believes that Lerner’s use of the term…
The Paperless Solo
This article, A small firm’s approach to competition – go paperless (Biz Journal 2/27/06) reports on Baltimore area, solo attorney Adam Spence who’s been able to limit his office to one large file cabinet as a result of his decision to go paperless. The cost – $1300 for a top of the line scanner. Clients’…
Host a Happy Hour
Proving that solo and small firm lawyers don’t have a monopoly on good marketing ideas, this Press Release announces Thompson, Hine‘s weekly casual gatherings every Wednesday where “clients, friends of the firm and existing clients” are encouraged to stop in and chat “off the meter.” It’s a neat idea that a solo or small…
Two More Niche Practice Ideas
On the surface, the two articles that I’m linking in this post have nothing in common or nothing to do with solo practice. But if you look deeper, you’ll see the obvious connection: both offer ideas for niche practice. This article, Lawyer’s specialty: Advice for gay, unmarried couples, Pittsburgh Post Gazette (2/27/06) describes a…