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Below, is my interview with Tom, where he describes his…
Back in 1999, seven months pregnant with my younger daughter, I surrendered the Washington D.C. office around the corner from the White House that I’d occupied for half a decade. Though the rent was bargain basement cheap – around $500 including the phone line – I realized that I’d only used the space a dozen…
If you’ve ever discounted your fees, either voluntarily to lure a client to your firm or involuntarily because your client ran out of cash, you’re in strong company. As I posted over at Legal Blogwatch, 76 percent of law firms discount their fees. But what’s even more interesting is that 89 percent of the…
Some law firms start with fancy business plans and grand visions. Others happen seemingly by accident – and yet if we look back, we can trace the result to a series of choices earlier made. In this nostalgic post, New York Personal Injury Attorney Eric Turkewitz shares how his firm was born out of…
Some lawyers want to start law firms, but fear that they’ll fail either because they floundered at their previous place of employment or performed poorly in law school. If that’s where you find yourself, worry no more. According to new research, a lack of control in a job situation has a fundamental effect on…
OK, so I realize that my headline sounds crazy. After all, you just started a law firm four or six or eight months ago. You’re barely covering your expenses, you still have no idea what you’re doing, you’ve chosen – by design or necessity – to work from home so you don’t have an office…
There’s still time to download a copy of an e-book and win a copy of Solo by Choice. The contest closes May 15, 2008 (you have until midnight) and I’ll be drawing two winners on May 16, 2008. I may (or may not) do a public drawing online, but I won’t announce the winners pubicly…
Not to draw further attention to the Paul Hastings associate, Shiyung Oh’s termination, but I’m fascinated by the new information about life at large firms that’s emerging as a result of the story. For example, the Wall Street Journal obtained a copy of Oh’s review, which showed that Oh excelled at her work, but…
In this earlier post, I criticized a Paul Hastings associates for outing the her firm for the circumstances surrounding her firing. I agreed that the firm acted boorishly, but I didn’t believe that was anything new – and felt that the associate may have burned bridges and harmed her chances for future opportunities. And…
On June 3, 2008, I’ll be giving a webinar for JD Bliss entitled www.aFrom Biglaw to Yourlaw: The Secrets of Starting and Growing a Successful Solo Law Practice. Like my book, the webinar contains plenty of general advice that’s useful to lawyers starting a practice at any stage of their career. But it…
