As if it weren’t enough that multiple bloggers continue to go solo, the number of blogs on solo practice are also proliferating. Welcome three newcomers, Ray Dowd of Small Firm Life, Victor Medina’s Solo Law Practice Blog, and Take the Fifth (launched in December 2005) about an Estate Planning attorney building a
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A Supreme Solo No More
As more law firm bloggers turn solo (including this one), Supreme small firm lawyer Tom Goldstein, bucks the trend with his recent announcement that he’s moving on to join a large firm. I’ve got mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand, Tom’s move is testament to my belief that solo practice…
How to Be Super Efficient
I like to think that I’m pretty good at multi-tasking but reading this post by Greatest American Lawyer tired me out. In a couple of three minute intervals that would have otherwise gone wasted, GAL added two items to the firm extranet, Practicing Law from the Kitchen Table and in the Car, dictated instructions to…
Counsel on “Of Counsel” Agreements
Frequently, either in emails to this site or on my listserves, I see questions by lawyers asking about “of counsel” arrangements, from how to find these relationships to what kind of contract should be used to memorialize them. So I was happy to see that
Dennis Kennedy has done the work for us with this…
The Paperless Solo
This article, A small firm’s approach to competition – go paperless (Biz Journal 2/27/06) reports on Baltimore area, solo attorney Adam Spence who’s been able to limit his office to one large file cabinet as a result of his decision to go paperless. The cost – $1300 for a top of the line scanner. Clients’…
Two More Niche Practice Ideas
On the surface, the two articles that I’m linking in this post have nothing in common or nothing to do with solo practice. But if you look deeper, you’ll see the obvious connection: both offer ideas for niche practice. This article, Lawyer’s specialty: Advice for gay, unmarried couples, Pittsburgh Post Gazette (2/27/06) describes a…
Information on Billable Hour
The Billable Hour, run by Lisa Solomon and her husband, Mark, announces the release of resources on the billable hour, now available here on their website. They invite submissions from others who can offer other resources on the billable hour.
The Death Penalty Must Be Wrong If Its Too Big for Biglaw
I’m not sure where my own personal opinion on the death penalty lies. I’ve always believed that it’s incredibly disparately and arbitrarily applied – I’m just not certain whether the remedy is wholesale elimination of the death penalty or reducing its random application by improving the quality of legal representation provided to indigent defendants.
But…
More Tips on Starting A Practice
David Swanner, a solo South Carolina Trial Lawyer gives us his tips for starting a practice, which are followed by a discussion of the merits of Mac v. PC.
Too Much Complaining: A Good or Bad Thing?
I’ve been thinking alot about my colleague Jon Stein’s recent post complaining that there are too many bloggers complaining about the practice of law and urging them to focus more on the positives. Like Jon, I don’t have much tolerance for complainers (as exemplified by this earlier post). But at the same time, complaining…