Jun 14, 2012 in Guest Bloggers, Solo & Small Firm Practice
A friend of mine and I were talking recently about the move to cloud computing and storage (also known as SaaS for “software as a service”) and how often lawyers are slow to adopt new technologies. He’s not a lawyer, but quite experienced in technology, and frankly he’s amazed that lawyers would even question whether [...]
Jun 12, 2012 in Guest Bloggers, Savvy Solos, Solo & Small Firm Practice
A colleague once told me that when it came to growing my practice, I could either spend money or I could spend time. What he failed to mention, however, was that sometimes spending time could cost more than spending money. This was a lesson that I would have to learn on my own as my [...]
Jun 4, 2012 in Demographic/Economic Trends, Solo & Small Firm Practice, The BS-Free Zone
Has the legal market become so bad that lawyers are actually considering taking a ‘full-time associates’ position which pays $192.30 a week….before taxes? I once heard someone say that most people are not afraid of failure so much as they are afraid of success. At first blush I’m sure many of you are shaking your head [...]
May 24, 2012 in Guest Bloggers, Solo & Small Firm Practice
The iPhone 4S added a much advertised voice-activated feature called “Siri,” which performs tasks that legal blogger Ernie the Attorney called “purely magical” because Siri allows you to avoid typing on that tiny keyboard. Lawyers can speak to Siri to transcribe dictation into an email, a text message or a document. Siri can do web [...]
May 22, 2012 in Announcements, Marketing, Social Media, Solo & Small Firm Practice
With so much social media hype these past couple of years, sometimes I think the reasons for taking the time to blog have been lost. We are inundated by Twitter feeds, Facebook streams, Pinterest Boards and we forget that all this great content we are consuming was created by someone else, someone else who continues [...]
May 21, 2012 in Solo & Small Firm Practice
With the current economy, new grads setting up solo practices, BigLaw defectors going home to go to work, it’s time to revisit the rules of working from home. This post is not, however, about how to comply with the specific issue of being a lawyer working from home but the emotional and physical challenges of working from home… [...]
May 17, 2012 in Guest Bloggers, Marketing, Social Media, Solo & Small Firm Practice
Recently I gave a speech to over 500 human resource professionals on the use of social media in the workplace. I started the speech by asking how many of the attendees had an account for LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Overwhelmingly the majority of the audience indicated they had both Facebook and LinkedIn accounts. Less than [...]
May 10, 2012 in Guest Bloggers, Solo & Small Firm Practice
Should I partner with another attorney when starting my practice? This is a question often asked by young lawyers who want to go solo. However, few of the young lawyers seeking a response to this oft-asked question are really looking for a partner.
May 8, 2012 in Audio, Guest Lectures, Jared Correia, Solo & Small Firm Practice
Jared receives countless questions from new solo lawyers and solos who have been in practice for decades but need advice on law practice management. We like to ask Jared what it is on lawyers’ minds and (no) surprise…it’s technology, cloud securiy, google, and law practice management software. However, you might be very surprised by what [...]
May 7, 2012 in Client Relations, Demographic/Economic Trends, Marketing, Solo & Small Firm Practice
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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