(Read Evolutions of a Solo Practice – Parts 1- 6 if you’re new to this author) When I returned to work, I knew I had to adjust my practice to make it a better match with my physical and mental health.  I converted the per-diem business into a model where the actual court appearances were mostly […]

Everyone Has A Story As rezoomers we are often reticent to tell ‘our stories’. Why didn’t we practice law? Why did we practice and leave? Was it that we couldn’t find a job or we found a job in another sector?  Did we stay at home to raise a family?  Did the road we chose just take […]

(While this post is geared towards a firm of more than one attorney, there are some points every solo should take note of.) What happens in your firm if there is a hit on a conflict search? Hopefully the conflict concern is immediately brought to the attention of the intake attorney. In firms that routinely […]

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.” John Greenleaf Whittier,     Maud Muller – Pamphlet What if you didn’t have a mountain of student loan debt? What if you didn’t have to worry about what all your lawyer friends thought about you? What if you never had […]

In an increasingly global marketplace, legal professionals possessing bilingual abilities are more and more in demand, as law firms are looking to meet the needs of their customers. As the population of non-English speakers in the United States continues to grow, hiring bilingual employees becomes important in meeting the unique language needs of clients seeking […]

When I read Professor Muller’s blog post that Susan referred to in Why Law School Professor’s Rankings Are Worse Than USNWR, from April 16, 2013, I decided to add my two-cents worth to the conversation. In 2003, I was working as in-house IP counsel for a large multinational manufacturing company.  We were selling some companies, […]

This post was written by Scott Morgan. Scott Morgan is a board certified Texas family law attorney and founder of the Morgan Law Firm which has offices in Houston, Austin and Sugar Land. He blogs on Texas divorce and family law issues here.  When he is not practicing family law or obsessing over search engine […]

Is there a website domain name that you wish you could get your hands on for your law firm? Have you wondered how to do it? Perhaps someone owns it, but they don’t actually have a website up. That’s the situation I found myself in. The owner had a multi-year registration, but hadn’t posted a […]

Years ago I visited a small law firm that was part of an office share arrangement located in Chicago’s Loop. Now I understood that the cost of maintaining an office in the Loop would be prohibitively expensive for many solo and small firms so this was no surprise. What did take me off guard was […]