Biglaw has its annual and closely watched profits per partnership or PPP extravaganza, while Above the Law devotes an entire category to biglaw associate salaries and cuts. But where can lawyers considering solo or small firm practice get a sense for what solo and small firm lawyers earn?
The solo/small firm salary question is tougher…
Back in July, I denounced three Cincinnati, Ohio lawyers who shamelessly served as a front for a foreclosure solutions scam. The lawyers never met with clients (who were going to lose their homes!) or did any work on their behalf; they merely signed their name to canned pleadings prepared by a so-called foreclosure solutions company…
If you’re a solo or small firm lawyer who litigates against biglaw, you’re probably familiar with the vanity footnote — that smug, yet entirely superfluous annotation to legislative history, obscure law review article, treatise or string citation included in many large firm briefs. Though intended to corroborate a case cited in the text or flaunt…
Searching for fodder for blog posts, I came across this advertisement posted by a soon to be 70 year old retiring lawyer who is seeking buyers for his law practice located in Syracuse, in Hamilton County, Kansas. According to the ad there are only two other lawyers in the County, thus allowing for a…
A few weeks back, I posted about several innovative business models that might work for small law firms. Along those lines, yesterday’s online issue of Time Magazine offers eight quick and decidedly twenty-first century tricks to grow a business in a down economy. I’ve focused on two below.
Outsource: Outsourcing is a theme…
To date, we lawyers haven’t been able to effectively sell the public on the idea that document preparation services like Legal Zoom are a poor substitute for the services of a lawyer. So, being lawyers, we’ve done the next best thing to selling: suing. Last month, a Missouri law firm filed a class action lawsuit…
1. Lisa Solomon takes on Westlaw – It shouldn’t take a detective to figure out the answer to one single question: How much will WestlawNext cost? Yet, apparently, it does and so my friend, Lisa Solomon of Legal Research and Writing pro has been investigating. Lisa hasn’t yet figured out the price, but she’s figured…
The following is a guest post by Kelly Spradley, VP of Marketing and Sales at Impirus Legal Websites.
Florida is not looking too sunny for lawyers today. The Florida Bar recently announced that Florida attorneys must put website testimonials, laudatory statements, and past results behind a disclaimer page. Many Florida lawyers currently have testimonials…
