2006

My husband recently started a new position at a technology company that, like many others, eats its own dogfood, i.e., it uses the product that it makes.  For lawyers, our dogfood is our advice to our clients.  But how many lawyers “eat own dogfood” when we draft retainer agreements for our clients?

This article,…

Hey all of you DC law bloggers.  I’m putting together an event for the Bar’s Law Practice Management Section on Blogs and Podcasts: Tools for Generating Clients, Money and Legal Stardom (or something like that).  I’m looking for some good bloggers to serve on a panel and tell how blogging has changed your career, brought…

Are clients and power shifting from large firms to small firms?  If the recent slew of blog posts on this topic are any evidence, it seems that smaller firms are gaining a bigger voice – and a bigger cut of big corporation business.   Consider this evidence:

From Justin Patten I learned about this post from

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As I’ve posted once before, solos and small firms have as much to benefit from outsourcing as  large firms.  Yet, I still know many solos who file their own papers at the court instead of using a messenger service or spend time on administrative tasks they dislike instead of bringing someone in who…

With so many large firms moving towards a “one stop shopping model,” what can a small firm r solo with a more specialized focus do to compete?  You could try to become a jack of all trades, but in expanding your capabilities, you may compromise quality.  Or, you could take the approach of the Birmingham,…

On most of the listserves that I’m on, new lawyers ask questions about how a particular marketing technique has worked for another attorney.  And while it’s great to learn from what others have done and take approaches that have been successful, sometimes, you need to go out on a limb and do something completely revolutionary. …