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,
Oh, the irony that an operation called Diversity Lab (along with Stanford Law and Bloomberg Law ) was the sponsor of the first ever Women in Law Hackathon. Diversity? Right. The Woman-in-Law Hackathon was anything but – unless you consider diversity to be a room filled with Ivy-educated, white people who each hail from
For the past two weeks, the tiny-minded legal world has been obsessed with one issue: Cravath’s announcement that it would raise starting first year associate salaries to $180,000 (the first significant movement from the $160,000 baseline in 2007) and the mighty roar of the lock-step monsters – er, copy cat law firms – racing to
Welcome back, Peter T. Anderson, D.C. Bike Lawyer whom we profiled last week about his niche bike practice. This week, Peter discusses the recreational side of biking, sharing his expert tips on must-have bike gear for commuting lawyers, safety of bike shares and great bike routes. By the way, if you’re a biker, whether in
Ever wonder what it’s like to turn a personal passion into a practice area? Peter T. Anderson an associate at the small, D.C.-based practice, Grenier Law Group is doing just that; leveraging his love for recreational biking and familiarity with the rules of the road to represent cyclists in the nation’s capitol. Learn more about
I just came across this article about a Boston-based online gift network called Nift that’s intended to help folks discover other local businesses by giving them a reward, in form of a gift card, to try those businesses out.
Here’s a quick summary of how Nift works in practice:
Someone walks into Biyoshi [a local
Back in 2000 — long before the explosion of Meet Ups, professional networking groups and virtual lawyer affiliations, Long Island based attorney David Abeshouse – then a commercial litigator and ADR practitioner who had just launched his own practice – was searching for substitutes to the collegiality and immediate access to lawyers with different