In today’s tech world, we celebrate the wunderkind – like
the founders of Facebook or Google – who achieved so much at an early age. Law
isn’t all that different when it comes to early achievement – which accolades
like law review and judicial clerkship and second year jobs at biglaw often
based entirely on
For many lawyers, starting or owning a law firm remains at
best, a consolation prize – sloppy seconds to employment as a lawyer – and at
worst, an undesirable career path that ranks far lower than positions in legal
ops or legal tech that don’t even require a J.D. At law schools, starting a law
When you think about influencers in the solo, small firm and law firm startup space, David Lat — who yesterday announced his departure from Above the Law, a biglaw-focused publication to take on a director’s position at Lateral Link, a biglaw focused recruiting firm — is hardly the first or even last name
Back when my next-in-age sister and I were very little, we’d hop off the school bus and careen into the house where we’d plop down at the kitchen table to inhale the after school snack that our mom set out. As we munched our Ritz crackers or ShopRite brand oreos, we’d joke around, trying to
Like many of my lawyer colleagues with college-aged students, I’ve been tracking the college admissions scandal with interest, particularly the involvement of Gordon Caplan , co-chair at Wilkie, Farr & Gallagher who paid $75,000 to bribe the proctor of an ACT exam to boost his daughter’s chances of admission to a top school. Quite honestly,
What stories would you share with the world if your time on
earth was limited?
Tragically, that wasn’t a hypothetical question for former
biglaw attorney, wife and mom Julie
Yip-Williams who was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer back in the
summer of 2013 and passed away in March 2018. Upon learning of her diagnosis,
So last year, you read MyShingle and grew excited or less terrified about starting a law practice. Maybe you read one of our top ten posts for the year and decided to stop playing it safe and to start your law firm. Or maybe you decided that it was your time to change the
There’s a great scene in the movie Southside With You (at 1:46) about Barack and Michelle Obama’s courtship where Barack Obama addresses a group of community members at a local meeting. They’ve been told “no” about something or other, and Obama suggests that rather than take the word at face value, they flip it around
Last spring, I tagged along on a trip to China with two of my sisters who were traveling on a research grant. One of my sister’s colleagues accompanied us to the subway station where we politely waited as throngs of people pushed past us to board the escalator. After a minute or two, my sister’s
Today marks the first day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and a time for starting fresh. We don’t make resolutions as we do for the secular new year, but instead, do something more important as we free ourselves of the weight of our mistakes and imperfections from the past year so that we