Stephanie Kimbro writes about the launch of a new business hubm integrated into the services offered by SunTrust, that includes businesses services like web development and legal-lite document preparation (meaning simple leases, website privacy policies and a bunch of other simple business agreements) all in one place. I agree that it’s an interesting concept
Big Law Firms Shed T&E Practices: Opportunities for Solos & Smalls?
Interesting video here at Bloomberg News (in the first minute and a half) about large firms shedding trusts and estates practices to serve larger clients. But nature abhors a vacuum – and those trusts and estates clients have to go somewhere. And while those clients — presumably individuals of high worth or small businesses seeking
Why Don’t Law Schools Invest In Law Firm Start Ups?
Last weekend, I attended my 25th law school reunion up at Cornell Law School. Considering that the Class of 1988 was Cornell’s centennial graduating class and that the silver anniversary is fairly significant, the turnout wasn’t great. Out of a class of 175 students, only 19 of us showed up – a figure that’s even
Would You Rent Office Space If It Only Cost $500/Month – And What Can We Do To Make That Happen?
[Note – this is a long read, and it’s about much more than the home vs. office debate but rather, the importance of affordable office space to the sustainability of solos and long term access to justice]
Fishtown Lawyer Jordan Rushie makes some strong arguments in favor of renting office space when starting
ISBA Report on the Impact of Debt on the Legal Profession: Accurate Assessment or Unfair Assumptions About Solos?
Via Scott Greenfield, I learned about this recent study by the Illinois State Bar Association on
The Impact of Law School Debt on the Legal Profession. Whether or not one blames the debt crisis on law schools (for inflating employment results), the government (for essentially prohibiting discharge of student loans in bankruptcy except
Counsel of Counsel Relationships: Avoid Conflicts
Nature abhors a vacuum, so the saying goes. So it’s not surprising that with big law’s demise, we’re seeing every flavor of alternative structure evolve, from upscale contract lawyer services to remained law firms, some that rely entirely on outsourced workers to meet client needs to groups of lawyers who operate separately but hold
The End of GoogleReader: A Sign of Blogging’s Decline and Lessons for Lawyers
As you’ve probably heard, yesterday, Google announced that it’s retiring Google Reader, a free service for consolidating and reading RSS feeds on July 1, 2013. Launched in 2005, Google Reader has a loyal following but with user rates declining, the Reader, along with many other products, will now fall victim to another round of
A Lead Generating Website Gone Too Far
Update, 3/12/13 (3 pm) Solosez member and contract lawyer Lisa Solomon posted about this on her
Facebook page and Richard Komaiko, Attorney Fee’s founder is feeling the heat. The emerging dialogue should serve as a warning to future law-preneurs you don’t go beta when people’s careers and livelihood (even lawyers) are on the line.
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Reinvent Law: Solos Lost in the Transition
I did not attend ReinventLaw, but would have liked to. With four matters pending in various stages at the D.C. Circuit and my daughters in the height of school activities, traveling cross country even for a day wasn’t in the cards this time. So I settled for tracking the conference via the #reinventlaw hashtag
Future of Law Friday: Marketing With Menus
Buying legal services can be confusing. Sometimes – in cases where work is unpredictable, or facts are unknown, opaque information may be acceptable. But for work that is commodity in nature or more predictable, there’s no reason not to make prices available to consumers – if not on your website, then at least in materials