The MyShingle profiles are an experimental feature here at MyShingle – to offer some insight into the careers of practicing solo and small firm attorneys, with questions on how they got their start to what gets them going in the morning. My thanks to Jay Fleischman and Walter James (next post) for serving as guinea
2009
Clients Search Globally, Act Locally
Over at my roost at Nolo Legal Marketing Blawg, I posted about the Google Local Business Center where in exchange for listing a business, users receive access to a suite of tools that enables them to track traffic to their site and even identify the locations where clients are coming from. I registered my…
The Solo Bandwagon Marches On…
This week’s news brings a handful of law firm start up stories. First, the Las Vegas Sun profiles
two young female lawyers, Tara Young and Elizabeth Sorokac who lost their jobs in February and have already started their own practices. Both had been practicing for only a few years and never expected to start a…
Happy Fathers’ Day to the Unsung Solo Dads
My dad was what you’d call a company man; he worked as a chemist for a major pharmaceutical company for 35 years until he retired in 1997, avid to spend time with his first grandchild and the six others who would later follow. My dad’s job didn’t offer much flexibility in terms of dress…
Why Is Findlaw Charging Money for Inaccurate Forms When the Correct Forms Are Available Online for Free?
OK, so I understand that a company like Thomson Reuters doesn’t "get" the concept of free. After all, Westlaw, one of Thomson Reuters’ flagship legal products costs a pretty penny. Even so, it’s one thing to charge for a product that delivers value, as Westlaw undeniably does. It’s quite another to extract payment for…
Shingular Sensation Scott Greenfield Wins Landmark Victory Protecting Lawyer Speech, With Help from the Blogosphere
On June 9, 2009, New York solo and Simple Justice blogger Scott Greenfield won a unanimous, landmark ruling from the the New York Court of Appeals in Stern v. Bluestone, which ruled that unsolicited, informational faxes distributed by solo Andrew Lavoot Bluestone on legal malpractice issues do not violate the Telephone_Consumer_Protection_Act_of_1991 or the Junk…
Newbie Solos and the Importance of Being Nerdy
Over at Legal Blogwatch, I posted about how shingler Kiwi Camara of Camara Sibley, not yet 25 years old and just five years out of law school is giving the RIAA a run for its money in the high profile copyright infringement re-trial of Jammie Thomas. Thomas’ first lawyer, Brian Toder won…
Spaghetti 2.0 and Law Practice – Customizing for Clients
Via Jeff Berman of Lawyer Marketing Sync, I discovered this video clip of Malcolm Gladwell discussing how Prego spaghetti sauce successfully took on Ragu by offering customers a few different sauce options – chunky, spicy and a third (which I can’t now remember). Today, we consumers are accustomed to different varieties of products. But…
Mommy, You’re A Hypocrite!
Yesterday, while driving home from the mall with my daughters, they began fantasizing about the day that my older daughter would get her license (still four years off) so that they could go shopping together, sans mom. My daughters then asked if I’d let them take the car to the mall or other destinations when…
Veterans’ Issues As A Practice Area
A few years back, I highlighted a small firm specializing in veterans’ issues. Now, four years later demand for legal services for veterans remains high. Fortunately, for solos considering veterans rights and benefits as a practice area, there are multiple opportunities for first rate, hands on training.
Today, the Maryland Daily Record discusses the HPRP…