Centuries later, hieroglyphics are making a come back.
Or so it seems, based on the graphic-rich menus that predominate the new trend of casual, make-it-your-own and faux-healthy (take a look at the calorie count for some of the items) eateries like Sweet Green, Boloco Burrito, Naked Pizza and Cava Mediterranean where I’ve been
Talk about value-pricing makes me crabby. It’s not that I’m a fan of the billable hour or that I fear that flat fees (one type of alternative pricing) put lawyers at risk of under-recovery. Rather, it’s just that many of the alternative/value-pricing gurus are so darn opaque about how to implement alternative pricing that the
With so many different online products and services available for potential use in practice, I generally don’t investigate them until I have a need. Make that a pressing need. I have been known to sign up for and learn to use a service just a couple of hours before I need it, which can wreak
A few weeks back, CNN reported on the demise of the solo physician, with the report predicting that within two years, 75 percent of new doctors will be employed by hospitals. While the cost of doing business for doctors is on the rise (technology can cut long-term costs but doesn’t come cheap), reimbursements from
So what’s the newest start-up trend? Doing it on the fly. That’s the conclusion reached by Anthony Tjan as part of the research he’s preparing for a book on successful small businesses, recently reported by Forbes. According to Tjan:
One of our most striking findings was that of the entrepreneurs we surveyed who had
Academics and legal futurists may be enamored by the Legal Zoom business model, the market sure isn’t. As Legal Zoom readies to launch an IPO at $10 to $12 share, sources like Reuters and The Street are questioning whether a $483 million valuation is a tad “feisty” for a company that generated $156 million
Along with several other solo colleagues, I’m quoted in this exhaustive Maryland Daily Record piece on office rental options here in the D.C. area. One aspect of the article that surprised me is the wide disparity in rental prices across the region. One of the attorneys profiled pays $1900 for space in Beltsville, Maryland that
I’m willing to give President Obama the benefit of the doubt that he didn’t intend to trivialize the accomplishments of small business with his controversial you didn’t build that speech. Still, for solo and start up lawyers, the President’s words sting.
While there are plenty of solo lawyers who embraced the concept of hanging
Updated March 29, 2022
What are Law-Related Services?
Almost ten years ago, I penned a short post on lawyer sales of law-related or ancillary legal services which are defined in ABA Model Rule 5.7 as:
services that might reasonably be performed in conjunction with and in substance are related to the provision of legal services,
If you’ve read me long enough, you know that I’m a stickler for compliance with ethics rules. Do I like all of the rules we have to follow? Not at all. But rules are rules and if you don’t like them, then you don’t break them, but change them.
Of course, sometimes, you don’t even