John Jantsch wrote a terrific piece a few years ago called "7 Time-Tested Ways to Dig Out From a Recession". My position, however, is a little different. You should be doing these things ALL THE TIME. While you can read all seven ideas on John's great site, I'm going to highlight numbers three, six and [...]

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Quite often we ask ourselves how we can create a niche, how to be different, how to truly carve out a unique subset of a practice area to call our own and then get known for that area.  I always like to follow demographic changes and economic changes to see what can be done.  Well, [...]

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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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First, this is not a political post. I will be laying out facts and projections. The goal is for you to use the information (or not) when thinking about the (very near) future of your law practice. Period. I am a Gleek. I admit it. And never was I more Gleeky than the week Ricky [...]

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We all know that 2012 is going to test all solos, their creativity, their stamina, their ability to 'keep it down' when they want to throw up on the roller coaster ride known as solo practice…especially in the years ahead.  Rather than prognosticate about all the changes which are definitely happening, I'd rather have you [...]

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(This is a little long but I hope you’ll find it worthwhile) In a recent article entitled "Startup Generation Ready to Fix Economy" we are learning that today's millennial is not only not a slacker but those who are taking their job security into their own hands is increasing exponentially. Forty percent of those in [...]

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Clearly with all the financial turmoil rocking our country, those who have been tracking why we are where we are today refer to the bursting of various sector bubbles.  Some even refer to our economy as a 'bubble economy' driven by six major bubbles which include real estate, stock market, private debt, discretionary spending, government [...]

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This post is long and filled with a lot of informative links.  It also might be a wake-up call for those who have laid low for a while and tried to ignore the economy.) Those who have followed me for the nearly four years I've been blogging know I have always drawn attention to the [...]

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(I realize the original title of this post did not really reflect the content and its importance so I changed it.) I'm seeing the writing on the wall. A friend of mine is very involved from a legal perspective with the Medicaid program. I'll decline to say which company and which state because it is [...]

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This post was triggered by a very passionate argument about women's contributions to the collective wisdom of the blogosphere between Crime and Federalism and MyShingle and morphed into Military Underdog's smackdown challenging the idea that any specific genitalia has greater responsibilities to their children all while running their legal practices.  While it was kind of [...]

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