Solo lawyers who draft or review oil, gas or natural resources leases face a tough road. For starters, these types of leases are often much trickier than standard leases for office space or wedding halls – there are distinctions between surface and sub-surface rights, leases for easements and rights of way versus, full fee versus
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Solos Don’t Need A Separate Education
By now, you’ve probably seen the New York Times article, What They Don’t Teach Law Students: Lawyering which like some digital version of Helen of Troy, launched a thousand (well, maybe several dozen) blogs — though as Scott Greenfield points out here, there’s lots of fire but no heat; for all of the complaints…
ISO Questions for Tomorrow’s Webinar “Everything You Wanted to Know About Starting A Solo Practice…”
Below are some of the questions that I researched for the second edition of Solo by Choice and which I’ll be discussing at tomorrow’s webinar sponsored by Rocket Matter (for details or registration, visit here). But what I’d really like are questions from you – so please post questions below for me to address…
Your Realization Rates May Make You Realize That Flat Fees Often Make More “Cents”
As a solo or small firm lawyer, you’ve probably heard the term “involuntary pro bono.” That’s what happens when you sign up to take a case, collect a retainer, exceed the retainer and the client stops paying the bill on the eve of trial when it’s too late to pull out.
Well, turns out that…
Thinking about a new solo practice area?
The following is a guest post by Roy S. Ginsburg.
When selecting the practice area that will determine how you spend the rest of your career, you can “go deep” or “go shallow.” It is almost always better to “go deep.”
“Going deep” means that you select a practice focus that you enjoy, in a…
Should You Sue or Start Fresh When You Start a Law Firm?
If her website bio is any indication, immigration lawyer Kisshia Simmons-Grant is a solo with a bright future.
With top tier undergraduate and law school degrees, a prior position in the prestigious Attorney General Honor’s program, tenure as Assistant Chief Counsel with the Department of Homeland Security trying immigration cases and proficiency in Spanish Simmons-Grant…
Some Conference Recommendations: NACBA, New York City Bar
I don’t often make recommendations about conferences; there are so many to choose from and my readers’ tastes vary. Still, I’ve got to put in a good word for two different conferences. First, I attended my first ever NACBA (National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys) Conference last Friday, where I was invited to speak by…
Please, No More Solo Stereotypes
It’s bad enough that Clifford Winston and Robert Crandall are receiving so much press for their book, Let’s Deregulate All the Lawyers . which I debunked in part in this last post. What’s even worse is that this crock of half-truths is now being used to revive the myths about solos as the untouchables…
Pay for the Product, Legal Service is Free or Pay for the Legal Service, Product is Free?
In my last post, I discussed different types of freebies that lawyers offer as incentives to encourage existing clients to send or refer more work. But lawyers — and quasi-legal providers like Legal Zoom — are also using free to generate new clients.
Many lawyers – from solos to behemoth firms – are giving…
Two Different Business Models of Free – Frequent Buyer Benefits
As I mentioned in Marketing by the Numbers video, it’s 11 times more expensive to generate new clients than to attract business from existing clients. Existing or former clients already know you, so you don’t have to convince them to hire you. At the same time, because your clients are constantly inundated with marketing materials…