Jan 29, 2013 in Guest Bloggers, Solo & Small Firm Practice
If you want to build a bilingual legal practice, choosing a good bilingual receptionist is a very high priority. Your receptionist is a key interaction that clients will have with the firm, and often the first contact that new clients will have with your law practice. Selecting and managing that person or service is an [...]
Jan 24, 2013 in Guest Bloggers, Marketing, Solo & Small Firm Practice
Amazing things happen when you show up in your life and work. And I mean SHOW UP. Not simply exist, but make your presence known and participate in the conversation. The best example I can give is from a recent experience that I had. Last month, I attended the Massachusetts Conference for Women. 8,000+ women [...]
Jan 22, 2013 in Guest Bloggers
(You can read Evolutions of a Solo Practice- Parts 1 -3 here). Taking on Negligence Cases I learned the basics of negligence cases when I worked part-time for Fred early in my practice. I knew enough to handle basic cases if I got a call to do that. In those days (early 80’s), you could [...]
Jan 17, 2013 in Guest Bloggers
* Lyrics from the song “You Can’t Blame the Wreck on the Train” by Terri Sharp: “When the gates are all down And the signals are flashing And the whistle is screaming in vain, And you stay on the tracks, ignoring the facts Well then, you can’t blame the wreck on the train.” Almost all [...]
Jan 15, 2013 in Guest Bloggers
Starting this month we now have two new columnists at SPU, Mark Bassingthwaighte, who is an attorney and a risk management advisor at ALPS,and Wendy Inge, also of ALPS. They will both talk candidly about managing your risk from the obvious to the completely unexpected. There will be something for everyone. They’ll both be available to answer your [...]
Jan 10, 2013 in Guest Bloggers, Marketing
David Wong’s brutally honest article, Six Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person, in Cracked made my day. Go read the whole thing. I’ll wait. You done? Good. You may be a little offended by the blunt and sometimes belligerent tone of the article, but you just learned a valuable lesson: Your only [...]
Jan 2, 2013 in Bar Exam, Guest Bloggers
’Tis the season when folks around the country start preparing for the bar exam. Studying for the bar exam is challenging whether you are taking it for the first time, taking it for a second time, taking a full bar review course, or studying on your own. When I talk to students who have failed [...]
Dec 27, 2012 in Guest Bloggers
I had a long to do list. I had work to finish up before the end of the year. I had shopping, wrapping, cooking, and cleaning to do before Christmas Eve. I wanted to plan and strategize for next year. Last Friday morning, I had let my to-do list get the best of me, and I [...]
Dec 20, 2012 in Guest Bloggers
It’s that “rubber-meets-the-road” time of year again. When solos start closing out the books on their law practices for the year, it spurs them to look back and take a little personal inventory. Some law firms and law departments ask their lawyers to summarize their accomplishments in connection with their annual performance review. I ask [...]
Dec 13, 2012 in Guest Bloggers
Remember your first semester of law school? Everyone was scrambling to be at the top of the class because everyone knew that only the top 10% or so of the class would get a coveted summer internship at a Big Law firm. And everyone knows that the best way to get a job at Big [...]
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