Last year when Hurricane Irene hit we had two 80 foot trees uproot and come crashing down completely destroying our deck. While our home had just superficial damage the loss of the deck remained a very significant financial repair. We immediately called our neighbor because the previous year we had watched their builder construct a [...]

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David Schnurman is an entrepreneur based in New York City. He will teach the course, "Building Blocks for Successful Entrepreneurship" at Solo Practice University®. David Schnurman is a passionate entrepreneur whose primary focus is creating a collaborative environment where individuals can actively learn and share their knowledge. He is the founder of two e-learning companies, [...]

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In case you haven't noticed, I have beef with the whole billable hours thing. I have heard all the arguments in favor of billing by the hour, and I have heard all the arguments against it, and at the end of the day it comes down to this: whose side are we on anyway? Under [...]

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One benefit to my making the move to Australia over the winter holidays is that it is already typically a slow period for my law practice, with my small business-owning clients finishing up the holiday shipping rush and then celebrating with their own families.  I had already informed all of my current clients about my [...]

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Allison Wood partners with solos and firms to provide ethics counsel. She will teach "Legal Ethics" at Solo Practice University®. Allison L. Wood, is the principal of Legal Ethics Consulting, P.C., where she provides preventative ethics counseling; research for ethical inquiries; and disciplinary and malpractice defense. Prior to starting her firm, Ms. Wood served nearly [...]

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A big change is coming down the pike and solo lawyers have a great opportunity to get in front of the curve before bigger law firms get fully on board. If you haven’t noticed it already, the world is switching to mobile. Essentially we all have “supercomputers” in our pockets. And the upcoming technological changes [...]

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It's the offical first day of Spring, 2012! Three years ago today on the first day of Spring 2009 Solo Practice University® opened it's virtual doors.  Since then we have helped almost 1,000 enrollees create and grow their own solo/small firm practices. Visually, as we've grown we've gone through many incarnations.  Yet our mission has been [...]

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“In his new book Failing Law Schools, Washington University law professor Brian Tamanaha cites a remarkable statistic. American law schools, he reports, produce 45,000 new graduates each year; but recruiters expect only 25,000 job openings annually through 2018.” Edge International Consulting. This is staggering! If you do the math this means from 2012 – 2018, [...]

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Suzanne Meehle wrote a nice post called With a Little Help from My Friends about the value of developing your network. Your network of friends and acquaintances can be a boon to your law practice because they can: Refer business to you; Answer legal questions outside your area of expertise; Act as a sounding board [...]

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As I got ready for work this morning, I found myself enumerating the things I absolutely MUST get done before Friday: Revise contracts for Clients A and B; Client C's corporate documents are way past due; Client D's  trial brief has been overlooked for far too long; Get the process server to serve the summons [...]

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