This week, Jurispage features a great guest post by Billie Tarascio, founder of Modern Law entitled How to Market Your Law Practice With Webinars. As I’d written on the same topic almost six years ago, I initially skipped past until I realized that the blog post title buried the lede: the real story
Yesterday, I sat for a demo of an online document-sharing platform that hadn’t impressed me much when I tested it two years ago after its initial launch. Still, because I’ve impatiently ditched many products in beta, only to learn of significant upgrades a year later, I agreed to take a second look. While the product
Imagine turning to social media to grouse about how your frustration at your current law firm makes you want to start your own — and coming away not only with a sympathetic ear but two future law partners. Sounds crazy, but that’s the story of how how Chicago-based, African-American, female owned boutique law firm KMR
Unlike solos and smalls who live under the microscope when it comes to ethics regulation for advertising, big law attorneys had no such problems. After all, until ten or fifteen years ago, most big law attorneys didn’t do much more than list in a lawyer directory like Martindale Hubbell or post a bio on the
Sometime in early 2003 — when blogging and MyShingle were still in their infancy — I learned that Jerry Lawson, one of legal blogging’s pioneers, would be speaking about blogging at a local public library. I hustled down to the even, and before the talk began, I introduced myself to Jerry. Jerry had heard
We live in an age of Oprah-inspired aha moments – that magical point in time when you experience a sudden insight or realization that propels you to action. Ironically, many lawyers thinking either about starting their own law practice or shifting from one practice area to another sit on the fence forever not so much
Welcome to the first annual holiday edition of Solo Sells – featuring products, crafts and services created by current or former solos and smalls. One of the best parts of solo and small firm practice is that if you structure it right, it leaves time to develop and pursue a side gig without leaving behind
San-Francisco based solo appellate lawyer Andrew Dhuey is a legal sensation, with his clever introduction to a motion to dismiss a suit to enforce a monkey’s copyright interest in her selfies dominating headlines at law blogs and traditional media. But to quote from Dhuey’s widely-published brief, “it should not be happening.”
You see, Dhuey does
When legal futurists warn of how technology spells the “end of lawyers,” they invoke travel agents as Exhibit A. “Who uses travel agencies, when you can just go online and find deals?” they ask. “And,” another futurist may add, the deals that consumers can find on their own are better than what an agents can
When this column, Are You Ready to Start Your Own Law Firm by The Law Whisperer Julie Brush came through my aggregator, I had to refresh the feed several times just to make certain that the article’s actual date was October 2015, and not October 1995. Because the advice is so dated, so disproven and