Today, I celebrate 20 years of blogging at MyShingle. I’ll have much more to say, share and show next week; today’s post is simply a placeholder to mark this extraordinary event.
For past anniversary posts, check out last year’s post here from our Nineteenth Anniversary.
Via the LawSites blog, I learned that biglaw firm Wilson Sonsini’s subsidiary SixFifty just launched a marketplace where businesses can purchase document templates on an ala carte basis. If the concept sounds familiar, that’s because it is: solo and small law firms have been selling templates for years now as a second stream of
Four years ago in a post at Above the Law, I described my informal poll of thirty Facebook group participants and found that the overwhelming majority identified personal referrals – either from other lawyers or former clients – as their top source of business. And a recent big win by a small Connecticut law
When writer and memoirist Nina Riggs went through her first round of chemo for breast cancer, her husband shared how eager he was for the treatment to end so their life to return to normal. To which Nina replied:
“I have to love these days in the same way I love any other. There might
For almost two decades, I’ve trolled the internet for good advice to share here on how to start or run a successful law firm. And friends, let me tell you that it’s pretty slim pickings out there.
Many of the blog posts and e-books on starting a law firm are either written by the lawyer-version
Are you thinking about starting a law firm? Or maybe you’ve just started and find yourself with more questions than answers.
Fear not! It’s time for MyShingle.com’s annual webinar, Make 2023 the Year to Start a Law Firm. Unlike many other start a law firm presentations that consist of war stories or focus
Ordinarily, you’d expect a large law firm to celebrate one of its lawyers securing a major victory at the United States Supreme Court. But that wasn’t Kirkland & Ellis reaction last June following then-partner Paul Clement’s win in a major gun rights case. Instead, the firm announced that it would no longer represent clients
Are you overwhelmed by marketing options? Unsure whether marketing vendors are selling you a bill of goods? Trying to figure out what marketing will give you the best bang for the buck?
You’re in luck. MyShingle has just updated our Marketing Cheatsheets where we’ve gathered the stats and who, what, when, where, why and how on
Three years ago when I first posted about lawyers using microinfluencers, TikTok was barely a blip on the marketing radar. Fast forward to today, and social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram reels are empowering nano influencers, defined by Influencer Marketing as influencers with active social profiles, but fewer than 10,000 followers. Brands are
With the legal tech market now valued at $27.6 billion, it was only a matter of time before a company serving lawyers would succumb to the siren’s song of deregulation and launch a DIY service to compete with its own customers directly.
That time has arrived. Back in April 2022, Findlaw debuted a DIY