Here’s a story from CNNMoney.com/Fortune Small Business (10/25/06) on how one Portland, Oregon law firm, Ambrose Law Group bolstered its revenues by a whopping 85 percent, after participating in Fortune Small Business’ Money Makeover Program and converting from the billable hour to flat fee arrangements. From the article:
“Flat-fee billing is better for clients and
Oh, If We Could Get Clients to Pay To Do Their Own Work
One of the legacies of the first conference that I attended over a year ago is that I’m still reading other women’s blogs that I’d have never encountered but for the conference. And it’s through one of those blogs that I learned about a franchise called Dinner My Way where you pay to cook your
News From the Home Front
One of the best parts of being a shingler is that you can choose where you want to work. And for many who start a firm, that means home. Recently, there’s been a spate of posts on working at home, including this guest post by Greatest American Lawyer at Grant Griffiths’ Home Office Lawyer,
Sabrina Pacifici To Speak At DC Bar Event
As a member of the DC Bar’s Law Practice Management Steering Committee, I wanted to post about our section’s next event, a brown bag lunch on FRIDAY OCTOBER 27, 2006, (noon to 2 pm) featuring Sabrina Pacifici. Ms. Pacifici created and publishes LLRX, the amazing, decade old, online journal dedicated to providing legal,
Calling All DC Law Bloggers – Need a Good Specimen!
Hey all of you DC law bloggers. I’m putting together an event for the Bar’s Law Practice Management Section on Blogs and Podcasts: Tools for Generating Clients, Money and Legal Stardom (or something like that). I’m looking for some good bloggers to serve on a panel and tell how blogging has changed your career, brought
Small Firms Drawing Big Attention from Big Clients
Are clients and power shifting from large firms to small firms? If the recent slew of blog posts on this topic are any evidence, it seems that smaller firms are gaining a bigger voice – and a bigger cut of big corporation business. Consider this evidence:
Outsourcing: It’s Not Just for Biglaw
As I’ve posted once before, solos and small firms have as much to benefit from outsourcing as large firms. Yet, I still know many solos who file their own papers at the court instead of using a messenger service or spend time on administrative tasks they dislike instead of bringing someone in who
Solos Team Up
With so many large firms moving towards a “one stop shopping model,” what can a small firm r solo with a more specialized focus do to compete? You could try to become a jack of all trades, but in expanding your capabilities, you may compromise quality. Or, you could take the approach of the Birmingham,
September 11
Like rock and roll, legal work is full of power and passion. It is about people and their stories, even when we represent businesses, as Justice Louis Brandeis powerfully reminded us. We help peple find justice, dignity, truth, riches or maybe just a little relief.
Do you agree that your work is full of power
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