So, what is SoloCorps?
Well, it started out as a kind of modern-day road trip — two good friends who met online, driving across the heartland from Duluth, Minnesota to Omaha, Nebraska, Foursquaring our location and tweeting up with online colleagues along the way. But as Lisa Solomon and I got to talking about the
For over seven years, MyShingle was an entirely free blog, full of open content: hundreds of blog posts as well as static resources like Soloformania (a compilation of forms commonly used by solos), Bars, Reviewed (a summary of benefits to solos offered by state bars) and the OnLine Guide to Starting A Practice (already well
So, ever heard of a one-sheet? Perhaps the best description comes from Wise Geek, which defines a one-sheet as a
single page document designed to provide a burst of information about a product for the purpose of sales or advertising….one-sheets are also usually constructed with some care to create a flashy, appealing image
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
In anticipation of a trip up to Ithaca, New York (more on that later) where I attended law school and studied for the bar exam, I decided to take another trip down memory lane and rifle through an old box of writings from that time in my life. I uncovered an essay that I’d written,
In the context of $201 million in legal fees, a superfluous $1600 charge — for a fancy dinner and reading a newspaper article — is chump change, something that wouldn’t have registered a blip on the client’s radar screen but for this New York Post article. Yet while the monetary value of the $1600 charge
I’ve written extensively on niche practices all over this blog – but I’d never presented on the topic until a few weeks ago, at the Missouri Solo and Small Firm Conference. It’s a popular topic these days- as I noted in this post – and I also see that Peter Olson at Solo in Chicago
One of my solo-centric colleagues, Susan Cartier-Liebel of Solo Practice University is running a two-part series on niche practice over at her Build a Solo Practice blog, so I didn’t want to send you into niche-overload. But I after seeing this article from the National Law Journal on “pot law practices,” I couldn’t
Starting a law firm can be daunting. Checklists and Mind Maps and planning resources outline the tasks involved, but the minutia can overwhelm. For some, the planning process gives rise to analysis-paralysis, as the quest for a perfect launch delays launching at all. And for those who come to solo practice as a last resort,
I couldn’t have picked a worse time to relaunch MyShingle. I’m headed out of town later today, en route to the Missouri Solo & Small Firm Conference where I’m slated to make four presentations and participate in the keynote panel. Plus, I’ve got a filing to complete; a new client who just retained me.
Still,