Crains reports that increasingly, tiny law firms are winning work from Fortune 500 companies that previously went to big firm competitors. The reasons are what you’d expect – first and foremost, companies get better value by hiring a $325/hour experienced small law partner to handle routine work rather than a similarly priced big law associate
Last month’s announcement of the marriage between Microsoft and LinkedIn had ethics gurus coming out of the woodwork, warning of a parade of horribles that would flow from the pairing.
When the deal was initially launched, ethics CLE speaker Stuart Teicher wrote of potential threats to confidentiality – such as a Microsoft’s Outlook Calendar sending
Recently, Bob Ambrogi reported on the results of a survey on management and technology challenges faced by solo and small law firms of up to 30 lawyers, conducted by the Thomson Reuters Solo and Small Firm Law Group . Among the various topics covered, the survey asked solo and small firm lawyers how they measure
At a time when solo and small law firms are losing ground to non-lawyer providers that aren’t subject to the same onerous and costly regulation , Professor Leslie Levin comes up with this proposal: why not subject solos and smalls to even more regulation by their malpractice carriers?
As is typical of most scholarship about
Last June, New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) released Ethics Opinion 1062 , the first ruling of its kind by any bar association or regulatory body to provide guidance on use of crowdfunding to launch a law firm. The Opinion was issued in response to this request by Stephanie Lynn Ramos and Miriam Lacroix,