A few posts back, I shared a bunch of high heels to wear to work. However, they were a tad on the boring side: black, and…black. That’s pretty much all there was. This time, I’m opting for a much needed injection of diversity, and sharing with you a couple of work appropriate heels that aren’t
ABA $5000 Legal Rebels Essay Contest
Though I’m not an ABA member, I’d be remiss in not informing those readers who are ABA members of this year’s $5000 Legal Rebels Essay Contest, open to ABA members and solos, defined as “a lawyer practicing alone with no partners.” To enter, submit an essay, not-to-exceed-600-words, in response to the question, “What innovation
Get Jargon, Get Rid of Jargon
If you’re an aficionado of legal jargon (and come on, aren’t all of us lawyers, at least when we’ve had too much to drink?), why not indulge yourself with two free e-books of jargon on project finance and corporate finance, courtesy of Latham & Watkins, with an H/T to Three Geeks & A
Why I Won’t Let My Clients Set My Fees: It’s Not Their Job to Do My Work
Over at Slaw.ca, one of my very favorite bloggers, Jordan Furlong, offers up a couple of innovative alternative billing ideas, including a recent and somewhat controversial initiative of 300 lawyer, UK-based CMS Cameron McKenna: letting clients decide what to pay. Though many might assume that if left to their own devices, clients
One, Two, Free: Excerpts from My Plenary on Free
I was honored to deliver a plenary talk on the second day of the most excellent Minnesota Solo & Small Firm Strategic Solutions Conference. Though I know that lots of people prefer talks that offer straight-up marketing advice, I took a slightly different tactic, with a presentation entitled “One, Two, Free: Endless Challenges and
ABA Annual Conference: Big on Fear, Short on Fervor
Lawyers Practicing in Darwinian Times! Legal Profession in Turmoil! These doomsday headlines weren’t plucked from some over-the-top law blog. Rather, they’re the titles of the plenaries by the ABA’s former top honcho, Carolyn Lamm and invited guest speaker, Harvard Law professor David Wilkes at last week’s ABA’s come-to-Jesus meeting Annual Convention.
I realize
Small Firms With Biglaw Tech
Updated November 11, 2022
Like most firms of its size (400 lawyers), Ohio-based firm Thompson Hine employs technology to serve clients. In fact, Thompson Hine uses its investment in technology as a selling point, with a dedicated section of the firm’s website devoted to a description of how the firm employs technology to support the
The Defense for Starting A Criminal Law Practice Out of Law School
I’ll admit that I’ve always had mixed feelings on the question of whether to solo straight out of law school. As I explained in this early post, from my perspective, it made sense for new grads with no work history and with significant student loan debt to take a paying job if only for
Solo Tech on the Road In Solos in The Heartland (Thanks, RocketMatter!)
In part of my ongoing series on how today’s solos are using technology, I thought I’d share this video where my Solos in the Heartland/Solo Corp travel companion Lisa Solomon and I have been making the most of mobile technology to stay productive on our six and a half hour drive from Minneapolis, Minnesota
At the Minnesota Conference – Solos in the Heartland – Thanks RocketMatter
Here are the first three videos from the Solos in the Heartland Tour, with Question of Law . Thank you to our sponsor, Rocket Matter which is supporting the project. The ABA Legal Rebels site is covering the trip here.
Here are the first three embedded videos. We’ll be curating them at a separate