The MyShingle profile series featuring Mom-Owned Law Firms continues. Join us this week as we celebrate more mom lawyers who have chosen to own, not loan their talent. Today, we’ll hear from Theresa Skaine, owner of Skaine & Associates, a Sarasota Springs, New York law firm handling corporate, not-for profit and commercial real estate
Women-owned law firms, particularly those owned by moms, have become the proverbial invisible man of the legal profession. Mom lawyers are excluded from the conversation about retaining women in the legal profession, and we don’t even rank on the ABA Reports drawn from NALP on women in the profession. But just like the tiny whos
Welcome to the MyShingle profile series featuring Mom-Owned Law Firms where we celebrate mom lawyers who have chosen to own, not loan their talent. One of our two inaugural profiles comes from Cathleen Cooper Moran, a seasoned bankruptcy attorney who has been running her own law firm for 40 years.
The money quote: “Ownership has
Welcome to the MyShingle profile series featuring Mom-Owned Law Firms where we celebrate mom lawyers who have chosen to own, not loan their talent. One of our two inaugural profiles comes from Christine Matus, a New Jersey-based estate planning attorney, who will celebrate 15 years of law firm ownership.
The Money Quote: “I always wanted
Last week, Bisnow reported on the changing look of the modern law office. No longer palatial structures with marble floors, Persian-rugged corner offices and mahogany conference room tables designed to impress clients and intimidate opposing counsel, today’s law offices resemble high tech firms with sparsely furnished, open layouts, fishbowl offices and brightly lit collaboration spaces.
Almost a decade ago, Richard Susskind’s book. The End of Lawyers predicted that many traditional lawyers, particularly solos and smalls would soon be rendered obsolete. And while Susskind wasn’t wrong — jobs in the legal sector decline steadily every year, with a loss of 100,000 jobs predicted by November 2017 – the glass is also
To increase the positive energy in your office space, and be more productive as a result, consider taking advantage of feng shui. This is the ancient art of aligning our external world to support our internal journey, explains Lorrie Webb Grillo, certified feng shui practitioner and owner of Thriving Spaces Feng Shui.
“Feng shui operates
“Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks” — Samuel Johnson
Last night at 11:33 pm 15 years ago, I launched MyShingle into the world. I’d worked on my site, all through the summer and fall – late nights, tracking down all of the links that would become the first version of
When you’re able to accomplish more in less time, everyone wins. Your clients will get more for each billable hour they invest in you, and you’ll make more money. A lot more. Consider this: If a lawyer, who charges $365 an hour (the median rate for a consumer law attorney[1]), bills one extra
Note: Post substantially revised at 3 pm 12/4/2017 to include additional explanation of proposed legislation
This week, businesses of all sizes – from behemoths like Google and Amazon to tiny mom & pops will have their eyes on tax reform, particularly the provisions on tax rates levied corporations and pass-through income from LLCs. Most solo