Even though I practice in Washington D.C., I don’t know much about David Wilmot, the local attorney representing the 82 year old winner of a $144 million Power Ball jackpot. (As an aside to the D.C. Bar, if it weren’t for Avvo listing lawyer in D.C., I wouldn’t have been able
Profiles
Whether By Choice or Necessity, They Took the Road Not Taken
Some of us start law firms because we want to, others because we have no alternatives. I was again reminded of this dichotomy by a pair of inspiring stories, here and here, about two successful shinglers, now in the twilight of their careers, who each started law firms at different times and under different…
A Solo Blast from the Past: Professor Stephen Gillers and “I’d Rather Do It Myself”
No one will understand the loneliness and fears. Or when it comes, the exhilaration. One morning in the second month, you may leave for work morbid and depressed. You realize that you’re spending more time dreaming about clients than getting them. You are sure you are headed for economic ruin. But then, you return home…
Shingular Sensation Warren Caswell Has Mandatory Life Sentence Declared Unconstitutional and Reverses Conviction Based Solely on Hearsay
Back in January, I created the Shingular Sensations series, intended to spotlight a significant victory or accomplishment by a solo. Shingular Sensation posts are not vanity pieces, but rather, interviews that I carefully design to glean lessons to help other lawyers.
This installment of the Shingular Sensation series belongs to Georgia solo, Warren Caswell. …
Shingular Sensations Series: Small Firm Lawyer Andy Simpson Wins Half Million Dollar Verdict Against Nation’s Biggest Law Firm, USDOJ
With this post, I’m inaugurating MyShingle’s new “Shingular Sensations” series. Every week or two, I hope to interview a solo or a small firm lawyer who in one way or another represents the best that this genre has to offer. But let me be clear – Singular Sensations is not a “self-promotional” series — through…
An Immigration Lawyer Stands Out…Overseas
Here’s a story about Maria Celebi, a U.S. immigration lawyer with an interesting niche: she works outside of the country. After ten years of immigration practice in the United States, Celebi, along with her husband and two young children, moved to Turkey after an economic downturn in Silicon Valley.
Celebi’s husband used the move to…
Solos Practice Longer…But For Love or For Money?
One of the benefits of running your own firm is that you don’t have a committee forcing you to retire. Perhaps that’s why some of the oldest practicing lawyers are those who work for themselves. Today, Bob Ambrogi, my co-blogger at Legal Blog Watch posted here about Reuben Landeau, a Boston lawyer who just passed…
GAL’s GAS (Great American Success) Continues
Some of my favorite blogs are those with a continuing story line. And there’s no greater story line than that shared by over the past few years by Enrico Schaefer, who revealed himself as Greatest American Lawyer. Enrico’s blog takes us from the
the day he quit his job at a firm to start…
Still Solo At 100
When you start a firm, sometimes, it’s hard to imagine lasting 60 days or months. But some lawyers, like 100 year old, Richard Bird, who’s profiled in this article has been running his own firm for more than 60 years! After graduating from Harvard Law in 1933, Bird held a variety of jobs, before starting…
Solo At 75
I was about to post on this article from the Washington Post on former federal judge and biglaw partner Stanley Sporkin, who’s just started his own law firm, but I saw that Susan Cartier Liebel beat me to the scoop. Though Sporkin expressed enthusiasm about his new venture, I wonder whether seventy five year old…