So, what is SoloCorps?
Well, it started out as a kind of modern-day road trip — two good friends who met online, driving across the heartland from Duluth, Minnesota to Omaha, Nebraska, Foursquaring our location and tweeting up with online colleagues along the way. But as Lisa Solomon and I got to talking about the
(Updated March 15, 2023). Typically when lawyers are called out by their clients, it’s as some kind of insult or snide remark about fees. So it was refreshing to see 2023 Oscar winner Ke-Huy Quan give a shout-out to his lawyer (and former co-star) Jeff Cohen.
Still, shout-outs are not without precedent. In an earlier
For over seven years, MyShingle was an entirely free blog, full of open content: hundreds of blog posts as well as static resources like Soloformania (a compilation of forms commonly used by solos), Bars, Reviewed (a summary of benefits to solos offered by state bars) and the OnLine Guide to Starting A Practice (already well
So, ever heard of a one-sheet? Perhaps the best description comes from Wise Geek, which defines a one-sheet as a
single page document designed to provide a burst of information about a product for the purpose of sales or advertising….one-sheets are also usually constructed with some care to create a flashy, appealing image
A heat wave seems to be sweeping the country, and temperatures are soaring even into the triple digits. All you want to do is turn the fan on and sit around in your swimsuit. Or, perhaps if you live in one of the thirty-four U.S. cities named “Springfield,” all you want to do is set
So here’s a practice management issue that law school doesn’t teach:
You’re a newbie solo who passed the bar nine months ago and opened a law firm right afterwards. Suddenly, the phone rings: it’s a Hollywood superstar on the line, she’s looking for a criminal defense lawyer to represent her and she’s picked you! Trouble
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In anticipation of a trip up to Ithaca, New York (more on that later) where I attended law school and studied for the bar exam, I decided to take another trip down memory lane and rifle through an old box of writings from that time in my life. I uncovered an essay that I’d written,
In the context of $201 million in legal fees, a superfluous $1600 charge — for a fancy dinner and reading a newspaper article — is chump change, something that wouldn’t have registered a blip on the client’s radar screen but for this New York Post article. Yet while the monetary value of the $1600 charge