Thanks to everyone who registered for Solo & Small Firm Practice in A Time of Corona Virus. Here’s a link to the recorded video and the slide deck. True to my word, I answered every question – and since I can ramble, the presentation lasted nearly two hours. So if you don’t have time
As law firm owners and entrepreneurs, all of us are living
under a cloud of unprecedented uncertainty and financial hardship. It’s
stressful and scary and if you were to claim otherwise, I’d question your
sanity.
In the days and months to come, there will be time — plenty
of it — to reposition your firm,
I am thrilled to share a post from a long time friend, Lisa Solomon who has been a pioneer in the freelance lawyer space since the mid 1990s. Lisa helped encourage adoption of freelance services by showing lawyers how they could save time and make more money through outsourcing. But most of all, Lisa gave
As Covid-19 spreads across the United States, so too, have all kinds of pitches and programs and promotions by law firms and the vendors who serve them. Some of these programs are free and purely informational – covering topics such as employers’ obligations and liability during a pandemic or the mechanics and ethics of getting
Ever since the agrarian era when women gave birth in the
fields, then strapped the baby on their backs, women have been multi-tasking
childcare and work. Corona virus won’t be the first time that parents –
primarily women – will be called upon to work from home while watching the kids
nor will it be
In many ways for me, corona virus is deja vu all over again.
Five years ago in March 2015, you would have found me working remotely from my home office where circumstances had forced me to relocate eight months earlier when my husband was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Though I’d been remote when my
My longtime blogging colleague and co-defendant Eric Turkewitz recently expressed some hope that the corona virus crisis would serve as a catalyst for needed reforms to New York’s antiquated judicial system. As Turkewitz wrote long ago in 2008, in-person motions practice, status calls and waiting time wastes $10 million in time for a single court