Once a cutting edge solo lawyer before moving on to new ventures, Matt Homann hasn’t forgotten what it takes to succeed. And he’s boiled them down here with Confuscious-like insight, precision and brevity. Though I like every point, I think my favorite is the last:
There is no shame in going solo. Your clients don’t …
For the past few decades, biglaw had a good thing going: a seemingly sustainable pyramid scheme. Large firms hired top talent and fed their appetites and egos with top salaries and assurances that these new associates constituted the cream of the legal caste system. Then, the firms turned around and billed the heck out…
For some time, I’ve been wanting to weigh in on the debate over at Simple Justice about lawyer marketing, such as its role in educating the public, whether the focus on marketing has overtaken the importance of honing our craft as lawyers and the extent to which we permit marketing to pervade everything we…
My post, Legal Marketing in A Time of Less Than Plenty is up at Nolo’s Legal Marketing Blawg, with lessons for lawyers drawn from what retailers are doing to keep sales stable in a wobbly economy. Here’s the opener:
Though we lawyers prefer to think otherwise, for many consumers and small businesses, legal services…
Long before work life balance (WLB) became acronymized and before young lawyers began fleeing law firms in droves, Lawyer Avenue Press (and its imprint, Decision Books), the company that published Solo by Choice served as a voice for a life in the law, with titles such as The Guide to Contract Lawyering or What Can…
As you may know, I’m a new fan of the art of the chart, i.e., the use of graphic depictions to convey an explanation. Today, thinking about all of the decisions that go into opening a law firm, I decided to attempt a Mind Map of the process. It’s more complex than I thought,…
Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside And it is ragin’
UPDATE (11/22/08) I wanted to highlight the comment from Ben Glass, a respected and successful personal injury/medical malpractice attorney…
One of my favorite chapters in the Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House On The_Prairie series is the one recounting Pa’s annual hog butchering ritual. At least sixty years later, Wilder was able to describe the event in vivid detail (if you’re a fan of the series, I’m sure you remember these details), from the somewhat…
It’s been in the works for a while, but I can finally announce that I’ll be contributing to Nolo.com‘s new Legal Marketing Blawg and I’ll also be hosting one of their ads at my site which should be up and running in a couple of days. I’ve always been a huge fan of Nolo…
[Above is the video that inspired this post (HT www.twitter.com/chrisbrogan)]
Even as many bloggers have looked to advertising as a way to generate an income stream from their blogs, up until relatively recently, I didn’t think that lawyers should include ads on a law firm blog. (I realize that you’ve seen ads at MyShingle but…
