A few months back, I had the opportunity to interview Ari Kaplan, author of a terrific new book, The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking nd Business Development. Though the book is relatively short, it’s incredibly dense – reading it literally made my head spin, because there are
Everything You Need to Know to Succeed As An Associate, You Can Learn From Solo Practice
As much as I love blogging about the nitty gritty aspects of solo practice — the how-tos, the marketing, overcoming your fears and all that good stuff, I’m just as interested in the role that solos play in the broader context of our profession and what other lawyers can learn from us and vice versa.
Legal Writing Expert Lisa Solomon Opines on ABA Opinion on Outsourcing
Last week, I posted about a recently released ABA Opinion 08-451 on the ethics of outsourcing. At the time of the post, I didn’t have the opinion and griped that the ABA would issue a decision of such potential consequence and fail to make it publicly available. In the absence of the decision, I relied
Solo Offerings for Solos: Marketing Listserve (Free) & Solo Boot Camp in Maryland
Here are a couple of items of interest for practicing and aspiring solos. First, California lawyer and The Practice Blog author, Jon Stein is accepting new members to a newly created Solo Lawyer Marketing List Serve. So how do I know that this is a list worth joining? Well, I’ve been a member of a
What Michelle Obama Couldn’t Have Found at The (So-Called) Fifty Best Law Firms For Women.
I’m not much of a political junkie, but I made a point of watching Michelle Obama’s speech to the Democrat National Convention. Michelle (it’s tough for me to refer to someone a few months older than me as "Mrs.") intrigues me, largely because she’s a contemporary with many superficialities in common: we both graduated
Failing To Make Opinion Available on Outsourcing Is Just So ABA
Perusing five years of archives, I realized that it’s been a while since I’ve bashed the American Bar Association for policies like legitimatizing firm-created obstacles for retiring lawyers to start their own practices or picking on solo and small firm lawyers in the disciplinary process or simply taking a negative view of solos. I
What Questions Do You Have About Starting And Running Your Firm…Maybe I’ve Answered Them
Both lawyers and law students thinking about solo practice have dozens of questions. But some questions are asked more frequently than others and those are the ones that I’ve tried to address in my book, Solo by Choice. Take a look at some of the questions that I’ve addressed in the book and think
I’m Back, With Lessons from London
Well readers, after a two week absence I’m back. And in the tradition of previous trips, I bring you real life marketing lessons from London.
By way of background, this vacation grew out of my husband’s two week business trip to his employer’s London office. Rather than spend the last few weeks of my
Taking A Vacation
Tomorrow, I’m leaving for a family vacation to London and while I’m exhausted from scrambling around trying to finish a brief and get my daughers ready for school (which begins the last week in August, just a week after we return), I’m also incredibly excited. I spent a semester in London in college, but haven’t
Greatest American Lawyer’s Rejoinder to the Well Drafted Retainer
In a response to my earlier post, The Well Drafted Retainer, my blogging colleague Enricho Schaefer ponders whether the traditional retainer is outdated. Schafer argues that the complexity of retainer agreements complicates relationships with clients rather than facilitating them. Schaefer explains that his firm memorializes the attorney-client agreement with an email listing the