Jim Calloway has generously named MyShingle as his website of the week, notwithstanding his perception that I sometimes have a negative view of bar associations. I’d like to clarify. Generally, I’ve lauded the bars for programs like these that help solo and small firm practice law. Likewise, I’m a huge fan of the work that LPM experts like Jim, Reid Trautz, Pat Yevics and others have done to support solos (and especially Reid, just because I’m most familiar with his work here in DC, a biglaw dominated bar, where he could have easily taken up biglaw interests and ignored solos, but hasn’t).
But while I admire the individuals, I can’t help but criticize bar policies or decisions like this or this or this that make life more difficult for solos and smack of unfairness, given that solos are often disproportionately targeted for ethics violations (which isn’t to say that we solos don’t have our share of bad apples, something that I try to point out so that other solos can learn from their mistakes). Fortunately, I find myself blogging about this kind of thing less and less as I happen upon many more inspiring stories or good advice worth passing on. That’s certainly the beat I’d prefer to cover.
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