Got grit? You do if you’re making a go of it as a solo. As much as many of the law practice gurus tell you that earning gobs of money as a solo is easy as pie (particularly if you’re using their thousand dollar "recipes"), the truth is that success comes from doggedness, a
Protect Your Reputation Online With Free Teleseminar
One of my blogging buddies, Jay Fleischman of Legal Practice Pro is hosting a Free Teleseminar on Protecting Your Reputation Online. And another blogging friend, defamation law expert Adrianos Facchetti will be participating in the call, offering advice on the legal issues related to online reputation management. For details on sign up, visit here.
Jet Blue Be Nimble…But Can You?
By now, you’ve probably read about renegade airline Jet Blue‘s unlimited travel pass that allows customers to fly free between any of the airline’s 56 national or international destinations as many times as they want between September 8 and October 8, 2009. Naturally, some deride the offer as a gimmick for JetBlue to make
Ride Shotgun With MyShingle and RECAP
Since I was out at the end of last week, I missed the announcement of RECAP, a nifty little Firefox plug-in that rides shotgun with lawyers as they use PACER, automatically uploading a copy of documents selected for download to a free repository where other lawyers and the public can view them for free.
Real Life Lessons for Lawyers from the Fashion Industry
Last week, I took a quick hop up to New York with my daughters to visit Banana Republic‘s design studios. The trip came courtesy of my lucky 12 year old, Elana who won both the tour and $400 in spending money in a contest at Miss O and Friends. Though I was happy
Being A Solo Doesn’t Mean Being Lonely
This month’s issue of Law Practice Today reprints my chapter, Being Solo Does Not Mean Being Lonely from the ABA’s book, Flying Solo. I wrote the chapter roughly five years ago and therefore, it’s a bit dated since it preceded social media. Still, my argument that lawyers needed be isolated as solos remains valid. Finally,
Where’s the Value Add in Big Firms?
Even if for the sake of argument, you accept the proposition that biglaw is better than small law, the question is: how much better. Is an $850/hr partner at a mega firm really $500/hr better than his or her solo or small firm counterpart? Naturally, we solo and small firm lawyers would say no, but
Hanging a Part Time Shingle
Conventional wisdom says that lawyers can’t hang a part time shingle. But then again, we’re hardly conventional. Though challenging (and what part of life isn’t?!), you can start a practice part time, for a variety of reasons such as not wanting to lose your day job or desire to spend more time with family. We’ll
For WSJ Readers – Resources on Starting a Law Firm
Yesterday, one of my solo colleagues Mitchell Matorin was profiled in the Wall Street Journal as asomewhat timely example of a large firm lawyer who has found success in solo practice. The story mentioned MyShingle and has been driving some traffic to this site, so I wanted to highlight
Coffee Shop Etiquette for the Home Office Shingler
The Wall Street Journal reports that several coffee shops in Brooklyn, New York and San Francisco are restricting laptop use. With unemployment on the rise, patrons are spending more time and less money in coffee shops, taking up space that might otherwise be occupied by paying customers.
As far as I could tell, home-office shinglers