Diversify, diversify, diversify. That’s the advice you’ll commonly hear if you’re investing in the market. Well, that advice applies with equal force when you’re starting a law firm and investing in yourself. Just as you need a portfolio for stock investment, so too, you’ll want a portfolio of activities by which to market your practice.
2011
Events: Starting A Firm Talk in DC, FREE Webinar on SEO & Content Creation and Funniest Lawyer Contest
Here’s a quick round-up of some upcoming, FREE events of potential news to readers:
1. On FEBRUARY 15, 2011, I’m returning to the American University, Washington College of Law School, to reprise my talk on the Nuts & Bolts of Starting a Law Firm – which covers the reasons to consider starting a firm out…
Just Say No To Free Use of Your User-Generated Content
Conventional, 21st century wisdom says that content wants to be free. That content isn’t worth paying for. That “exposure” in exchange for content is sufficient reward.
Funny thing is that those who try to sell you this line don’t have content. And not only do they want yours free, but they want to profit off…
Women Lawyers Too Busy Reading People Magazine To Blog, Suggests Crime & Federalism Blogger
Objectively speaking, there are fewer women than men who blog or contribute to wikipedia or are partners at AmLaw 100 law firms, for whatever that dubious honor is worth besides a huge paycheck. Sure, I’d like to see more women enjoy the same benefits that I have from blogging, but I surely don’t blame men…
DLAPiper’s $200k Cover Charge Part II: Ethics Issues
This morning, I posted about DLAPiper’s $200k minimum annual billing cover charge for clients. But after a couple of conversations, I’ve gotten to wondering how DLAPiper can enforce this minimum charge without running afoul of ethics requirements.
For example, what happens if DLAPiper estimates that defending Company X in a major lawsuit will cost $250,000,…
Solos Can Provide Cover to DLA Piper Clients Who Can’t Pay Its $200k Cover
So, last week’s big blogosphere news was that the DLAPiper, the world’s largest law firm has announced a mandatory minimum $200,000 annual cover charge for clients. New clients unwilling to commit to spending $200,000 annually on fees won’t be served, while existing clients who don’t meet the minimum billings requirement may be asked to…
Not Much to Say About Women Speaking Up
There’s a post by Staci Zaretsky up at Lawyerist asking why Women Lawyers Are Silencing Themselves Staci concludes that irrespective of what most women do, she’d rather be labeled a bitch than be silent. Jessie Kornberg, the executive director of Ms. JD also suggests that women are caught between a rock and a hard place:…
MyShingle Round Up News
You’ve probably noticed my postings have been light as of late. For better or worse, I have just been so, so busy with all kinds of projects – many that involve quite a bit of writing – so that I have not been able to make the time for MyShingle. I believe that the weight…
ABA’s Issue Paper on Admission by Motion: Impact on Women Lawyers
I’ve been so busy covering the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 initiatives on ethics of lawyer use of social media for marketing and confidentiality concerns regarding lawyer use of technology that I just about overlooked the other initiatives that continue to emerge. For example, on December 2, 2010, the ABA’s released an issues paper on…
For the Dead of Winter: Merino Wool Sweaters!
It’s mid-January, and those of us not lucky enough to live in warmer climates still have much of winter left to brave. This means snow and sleet and wind and just general, frigid miserableness.
If you’re like me (a woman), you are cold all the time. There’s no shame in it, ladies: Scientists recently discovered…