You had the best intentions for celebrating your clients and colleagues this holiday season.
First, it was branded calendars or chargers or thumb drives for clients and colleagues as a holiday gift, but your budget couldn’t quite cover it. So, you downscaled to printed holiday cards but you didn’t place the order in time. Then,
Though it may surprise you, I’m not a fan of lawyers describing themselves as solos. Despite eleven years of promoting the virtues of hanging a shingle and big law’s tarnished image, the legal profession — from law schools to judges — still reveres big firm lawyers and their shiny credentials. Even the so-called Newlaw
Let’s say that you need a website for your law firm and you’re on a tight budget. So what are the options?
You can’t afford some of the high-end, reputable vendors that serve law firms exclusively — and you’re not interested in a usurious three-year installment contract where you pay a small fee up front
Sometime in the evening of December 9, 2002, I clicked the enter button and launched MyShingle’s inaugural post into cyberspace. My blog has created some great opportunities — but eleven years is also a long, long time to be blogging. Each year, more blogs emerge and it becomes increasingly difficult to stay relevant and keep
Just a day after I served up some Food for Thought on law practice trends, I stumbled across another food-oriented trend right here in my own backyard: the rise of fast and casual dining. As described in the article, fast and casual restaurants fall into “that category in between McDonald’s and Applebee’s, with an
Tis the season for trend spotting! As the year winds down, predictions of hot practice areas and the future of law will cram the legal trade press and blogs. In fact, Bob Denney has already released his always excellent annual “What’s Hot and What’s Not” over at
Attorney at Work; if you only have
The problem of lawyers abandoning a practice and leaving clients in the lurch is hardly new. Yet abandoned law practices are increasingly becoming a crisis for the legal profession reports Cincinnati Enquirer and Lexington Herald.
In Kentucky, a recent tragic spike in the number of lawyer suicides (six in 2012 alone) galvanized the bar’s
Behold the Menurkey. Part Menorah, part Turkey, the Menurkey commemorates the intersection of Thanksgiving and Hanukah, two holidays that celebrate the triumph of religious freedom over oppression; of small outliers over large dynasties. In many ways, both holidays represent the story of solos.
Although age-old holidays inspired the Menurkey, it came to life
As Bob Ambrogi recently reported, Box.net is making a play for the legal industry by partnering with various legal service vendors for practice management platforms, legal research, billing, courtroom information management and productivity. And that’s great news. As a long time Box user — first, on the free platform beginning in early 2009 and
In the four years since the release of Atul Gawande’s Checklist Manifesto, the topic of lawyer checklists has been making the rounds on the blogs and speaker circuits. Which is good because checklists are a valuable tool that can help lawyers keep their practice running smoothly, stay out