Centuries later, hieroglyphics are making a come back.
Or so it seems, based on the graphic-rich menus that predominate the new trend of casual, make-it-your-own and faux-healthy (take a look at the calorie count for some of the items) eateries like Sweet Green, Boloco Burrito, Naked Pizza and Cava Mediterranean where I’ve been
Academics and legal futurists may be enamored by the Legal Zoom business model, the market sure isn’t. As Legal Zoom readies to launch an IPO at $10 to $12 share, sources like Reuters and The Street are questioning whether a $483 million valuation is a tad “feisty” for a company that generated $156 million
Updated March 29, 2022
What are Law-Related Services?
Almost ten years ago, I penned a short post on lawyer sales of law-related or ancillary legal services which are defined in ABA Model Rule 5.7 as:
services that might reasonably be performed in conjunction with and in substance are related to the provision of legal services,
If you’ve read me long enough, you know that I’m a stickler for compliance with ethics rules. Do I like all of the rules we have to follow? Not at all. But rules are rules and if you don’t like them, then you don’t break them, but change them.
Of course, sometimes, you don’t even
Update Note 7/19/2012: I had a chance to chat with Michael Mills of Neota two days ago. Neota is doing some really exciting work, and is definitely responsive and curious about opportunities in the solo/small firm market. Stay tuned…
Editor’s note: This is the first of a regular feature, Future of Law Fridays where we’ll
With a torrent of information streaming through our email, social media channels and RSS feeds daily, most of us have become regimented in filtering. We eyeball headlines, prioritize links from designated Twitter followers, strain articles without a particular tag or search term and use the delete key without mercy. While our compulsive filtering immunizes us
About a year ago, in response to then- Above the Law columnist Jay Shepard, I asserted that wanting to run a business is NOT the most important characteristic for lawyers wanting to start their own practice. I postulated that lawyers who hang a shingle for the excitement of running a business rather than a passion
Despite the proclaimed rise of the DIY-client, seems that many aren’t yet willing to self-schedule an appointment with an attorney. At least, that’s been the experience thus far for several of the lawyers interviewed by the Wisconsin Bar Journal on their experiences with self-scheduling.
One North Carolina lawyer, Kellie Mannette reported that while her
Columbus discovered America. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. Lana Turner , like other great movie stars of the day, was discovered drinking a coke at a soda fountain. We all enjoy discovering that terrific little cafe on the backstreets of Brooklyn or Washington D.C. or London or wherever else we happen to be traveling.
By contrast,
Call it the twitter-ization of going solo, but these days, I’m most often asked about the one thing that guarantees success as a solo. It’s an impossible question of course, since there isn’t any silver bullet — but if I had to settle on the one strategy common to successful solos across generations, regions and