With a late Thanksgiving, it’s hard to believe that we’re
already two days into December – and just three weeks away from the start of
holidays. So if you were planning on ordering and sending out personalized
holiday cards, time is growing short. And believe it or not, that’s
actually a good thing.
I don’t
Many lawyers view lack of resources as an obstacle to
starting or growing a law practice. And they’d be right to some extent.
After all, it’s far easier and less stressful to start a law practice with a
deep pocket full of money to fund prime office space, administrative help and
professional marketers and coaches
Most lawyers would never admit that they pretty much charge
the same price for everything. For example, one lawyer might argue that
his rates are only $250/hr – a real bargain as compared to so-and-so down the
street who bills out at $500. Yet I’d be willing to bet that even with
the one lawyer
Yesterday, the ABA released a report entitled Walking
Out the Door: The Facts, Figures and Future of Experienced Women Lawyers in
Private Practice. Focused on the perspective of women with 15 years
or more experience in the nation’s 350 largest firms, the report seeks to
answer the question “why do experienced women lawyers leave
In a world where lawyers are being displaced by technology, data scientists and policy experts, law schools are searching for ways to train lawyers to make them more relevant in today’s world. After all, law schools’ survival depends on placing students in jobs, so they need to teach them skills to make them marketable. Hence,the
In honor of Veteran’s Day, today’s Make Money Mondays
salutes a unique niche practice area: veterans’ owned businesses. According
to the recent surveys, there
are 2.52 million veteran majority-owned businesses in the United States
that collectively generated $1.14 trillion in revenues last year. Most vet
businesses are small with 54 percent having 1-4 employees, and
Via Bob Ambrogi’s Law
Sites blog, I learned of the launch of Modern
Attorney, a new legal directory intended to serve the needs of today’s
millennials. Developed by Next Chapter
which was recently acquired by Fastcase, Modern Attorney includes the
types of information believed to be important to millennial in choosing a
Back when I started my law firm as a green twenty-something
five years out of law school, I invited a partner to lunch who worked at a law
firm where I’d coveted a job. Of course, when I was out pounding the pavement
for work just a few months before, I’d never have had the
Yesterday, law practice management company Clio released its popular and widely read 2019
Clio Trends Report. The Clio Report is unique because in contrast to traditional
surveys which rely on responses from humans, Clio culls through millions of
pieces of anonymized user data generated through its platform to identify
trends related to solo and
Recently, I’ve been listening to life coach and web-TV
sensation Marie Forleo’s
new book, Everything
is Figure-outable. Though life coaches aren’t generally my cup of tea,
Forleo’s work piques my interest because she was one of the first women in the
online space who found a way to make bank online — in her