http://myshingle.com/2004/12/articles/criminal-law-practice-policy/a-perspective-on-the-lynne-stewart-trial/ Great Things Come in Small [Law] Practices! Tue, 15 May 2012 15:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://myshingle.com/2004/12/articles/criminal-law-practice-policy/a-perspective-on-the-lynne-stewart-trial/#comment-52 lorsen Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:34:48 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/47/a-perspective-on-the-lynne-stewart-trial/#comment-52 Frankly, I certainly can't understand why solo and small firm attorneys would choose court appointed work as a business model when it would make more sense for attorneys to voluntarily cap their court appointed work (I'd say to 1/4 of their practice but even 1/2 could work) and spend the rest of the time looking for cases that could pay 5 times more. And once you lock yourself into 40 hours a week at $40/hour, there's very little time left to market and few resources to "play" with that might, for example, enable an attorney to take on a riskier contingency case with higher reward. ==================== lorsen <a>California DUI</a> Frankly, I certainly can’t understand why solo and small firm attorneys would choose court appointed work as a business model when it would make more sense for attorneys to voluntarily cap their court appointed work (I’d say to 1/4 of their practice but even 1/2 could work) and spend the rest of the time looking for cases that could pay 5 times more. And once you lock yourself into 40 hours a week at $40/hour, there’s very little time left to market and few resources to “play” with that might, for example, enable an attorney to take on a riskier contingency case with higher reward.
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]]> http://myshingle.com/2004/12/articles/criminal-law-practice-policy/a-perspective-on-the-lynne-stewart-trial/#comment-5220 lorsen Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:34:00 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/47/a-perspective-on-the-lynne-stewart-trial/#comment-5220 Frankly, I certainly can't understand why solo and small firm attorneys would choose court appointed work as a business model when it would make more sense for attorneys to voluntarily cap their court appointed work (I'd say to 1/4 of their practice but even 1/2 could work) and spend the rest of the time looking for cases that could pay 5 times more. And once you lock yourself into 40 hours a week at $40/hour, there's very little time left to market and few resources to "play" with that might, for example, enable an attorney to take on a riskier contingency case with higher reward. ==================== lorsen <a>California DUI</a> Frankly, I certainly can’t understand why solo and small firm attorneys would choose court appointed work as a business model when it would make more sense for attorneys to voluntarily cap their court appointed work (I’d say to 1/4 of their practice but even 1/2 could work) and spend the rest of the time looking for cases that could pay 5 times more. And once you lock yourself into 40 hours a week at $40/hour, there’s very little time left to market and few resources to “play” with that might, for example, enable an attorney to take on a riskier contingency case with higher reward.
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