I know that there’s nothing more that my colleague, co-defendant and blogger-in-abeyance Scott Greenfield would have hated than becoming the metaphorical subject of a formulaic blog post along the lines of Top Lessons Lawyers Can Learn from Zappos, food bloggers, the Muppets or some other seemingly irrelevant analogy. Well, sorry my friend but
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It’s Never Too Late to Start a Solo Practice
Solo practice isn’t just for the young or the new attorney. Many seasoned veterans who’ve spent their entire career at a government position or a large law firm secretly harbor dreams about starting their own practice. Others who have devoted their career to a firm now find themselves out on the street with few options…
Twitter and Other People’s Privacy
This Saturday, February 18, 2012, I’ll be attending the Maryland State Bar Association’s Hanging a Shingle program. I’m participating not as a speaker (not asked) or as a way to promote my books, Solo by Choice or Social Media for Lawyers or this blog (I can’t, since the MSBA endorses neither), but simply as a…
There is Nothing Wrong With Trying, Failing and Being Honest About It.
So, a lawyer walks on to Groupon, offers a $99 will, scores some coverage in the ABA Journal, sells 53 of the $99 will packages (with Groupon taking a 50 percent cut) and generates 150 calls and emails from other lawyers who are interested as well as some “uncharitable” commentary. Now, he’s decided against…
Question for Transactional Solos: What Kind of Contracts Do You Frequently Draft?
A few months ago, I reviewed a product released by Ken Adams and Koncision; a form confidentiality agreement that lawyers can use for drafting. Though you’ve probably seen dozens of NDA’s and confidentiality agreements online, Ken’s product is far more high end and detailed, which means that you can rely on it to make a…
A Solo-bomination of An Attorneys Fees Decision
Would you sacrifice six weeks of revenue for six years and instead, spend those six weeks toiling pro bono for a snowball’s chance in hell of victory before the United States Supreme Court? Small firm lawyer Alan Gura did.
A partner in the two-lawyer firm of Gura and Possessky, Gura was just 32 and eight…
Taking A Break & Questions for Readers
I’m not sure why I ever bother to blog the week between Christmas and New Year’s. Most folks either skip town or are frantically racing to meet end-of-year deadlines. Either way, it makes for absent or distracted readers. In fact, that’s generally why I save my New Year’s predictions for January (2009, 2010…
Big Law to Your Law Teleconference and Ebook Available
The 50 minute recording of last night’s Big law to Your law teleseminar (unfortunately aborted due to problems ony end) is available here Big Law to Your Law Recording. The accompanying slide deck is here and the 40 page ebook (compilation of blog posts) is here. I realized after trying to squeeze everything…
Choosing a new practice area: Consider family law
The following is a guest post by Roy S. Ginsburg.
As an attorney coach, I often counsel lawyers who are considering a move to a new practice area – helping them balance the pros and cons of such career choices. One overlooked area I often recommend is family law.
Lawyers often object to the idea…
Free Teleseminar December 15: From Big Law to Your Law, 3 Years Later
Three years ago, before the bottom fell out of big law, I offered one of my most successful free teleseminars ever, From Big Law to Your Law. Back at the end of 2008, most folks thought that the downturn (just 1742 layoffs) was just another market correction of the variety we’d seen in the early…