http://myshingle.com/2006/06/articles/reasons-to-solo/solo-practice-the-most-overlooked-underrated-law-option/ Great Things Come in Small [Law] Practices! Sun, 20 May 2012 20:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://myshingle.com/2006/06/articles/reasons-to-solo/solo-practice-the-most-overlooked-underrated-law-option/#comment-1882 Pete Freans Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:15:19 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/547/solo-practice-the-most-overlooked-underrated-law-option/#comment-1882 Interesting article and I appreciate your thoughts on solo practice. I fell into a rut in law after I failed the bar a few times and legal work was hard to come by. I have often thought about leaving the profession altogether, dutifully following the "priceless advice" of established attorneys. While our profession has many decent people (the same people that keep me in it), there is a vocal, self-righteous (and paranoid) minority that is always looking over its shoulders. I guess it is maddening for a top-tiered law schooled, law review lawyer to see a lower-tiered law schooled lawyer with average grades compete for finite legal resources. I currently have a full-time job working for a big city court system but I am in the initial stages of creating a part-time solo practice. Rather than wait for this profession to validate my legal skills (a mistake I made early in my career), I am going to carve out my very own nitch with quality legal work done with integrity. My hope is that my practice alone can financially sustain me someday. The future is very exciting. Interesting article and I appreciate your thoughts on solo practice. I fell into a rut in law after I failed the bar a few times and legal work was hard to come by. I have often thought about leaving the profession altogether, dutifully following the “priceless advice” of established attorneys. While our profession has many decent people (the same people that keep me in it), there is a vocal, self-righteous (and paranoid) minority that is always looking over its shoulders. I guess it is maddening for a top-tiered law schooled, law review lawyer to see a lower-tiered law schooled lawyer with average grades compete for finite legal resources. I currently have a full-time job working for a big city court system but I am in the initial stages of creating a part-time solo practice. Rather than wait for this profession to validate my legal skills (a mistake I made early in my career), I am going to carve out my very own nitch with quality legal work done with integrity. My hope is that my practice alone can financially sustain me someday. The future is very exciting.

]]> http://myshingle.com/2006/06/articles/reasons-to-solo/solo-practice-the-most-overlooked-underrated-law-option/#comment-5981 Pete Freans Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:15:00 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/547/solo-practice-the-most-overlooked-underrated-law-option/#comment-5981 Interesting article and I appreciate your thoughts on solo practice. I fell into a rut in law after I failed the bar a few times and legal work was hard to come by. I have often thought about leaving the profession altogether, dutifully following the "priceless advice" of established attorneys. While our profession has many decent people (the same people that keep me in it), there is a vocal, self-righteous (and paranoid) minority that is always looking over its shoulders. I guess it is maddening for a top-tiered law schooled, law review lawyer to see a lower-tiered law schooled lawyer with average grades compete for finite legal resources. I currently have a full-time job working for a big city court system but I am in the initial stages of creating a part-time solo practice. Rather than wait for this profession to validate my legal skills (a mistake I made early in my career), I am going to carve out my very own nitch with quality legal work done with integrity. My hope is that my practice alone can financially sustain me someday. The future is very exciting. Interesting article and I appreciate your thoughts on solo practice. I fell into a rut in law after I failed the bar a few times and legal work was hard to come by. I have often thought about leaving the profession altogether, dutifully following the “priceless advice” of established attorneys. While our profession has many decent people (the same people that keep me in it), there is a vocal, self-righteous (and paranoid) minority that is always looking over its shoulders. I guess it is maddening for a top-tiered law schooled, law review lawyer to see a lower-tiered law schooled lawyer with average grades compete for finite legal resources. I currently have a full-time job working for a big city court system but I am in the initial stages of creating a part-time solo practice. Rather than wait for this profession to validate my legal skills (a mistake I made early in my career), I am going to carve out my very own nitch with quality legal work done with integrity. My hope is that my practice alone can financially sustain me someday. The future is very exciting.

]]> http://myshingle.com/2006/06/articles/reasons-to-solo/solo-practice-the-most-overlooked-underrated-law-option/#comment-1881 el guapo Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:03:49 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/547/solo-practice-the-most-overlooked-underrated-law-option/#comment-1881 Ann Israel seems to be completely focused on BIGLAW. I quit my NYC BIGLAW job 4 years ago to start my own litigation practice. So far, no regrets at all. Ann Israel seems to be completely focused on BIGLAW. I quit my NYC BIGLAW job 4 years ago to start my own litigation practice. So far, no regrets at all.

]]> http://myshingle.com/2006/06/articles/reasons-to-solo/solo-practice-the-most-overlooked-underrated-law-option/#comment-5980 el guapo Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:03:00 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/547/solo-practice-the-most-overlooked-underrated-law-option/#comment-5980 Ann Israel seems to be completely focused on BIGLAW. I quit my NYC BIGLAW job 4 years ago to start my own litigation practice. So far, no regrets at all. Ann Israel seems to be completely focused on BIGLAW. I quit my NYC BIGLAW job 4 years ago to start my own litigation practice. So far, no regrets at all.

]]> http://myshingle.com/2006/06/articles/reasons-to-solo/solo-practice-the-most-overlooked-underrated-law-option/#comment-1880 Jeremy Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:30:36 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/547/solo-practice-the-most-overlooked-underrated-law-option/#comment-1880 I want to share the best advice anyone ever gave me in favor of big-firm life as opposed to small-firm or solo practitioner life. I was a legal assistant making $11/hr at my last job. The work, while interesting, was mostly filling in blanks in forms and ghostwriting discovery. My boss's daughter, a second-year associate at a big firm, told me that big-firm life was great because she got paid five times what I did to do basically the same work. COMMENT: Big-firm work is boring and thankless until you achieve some responsibility with the firm. And that only happens if you're lucky. I want to share the best advice anyone ever gave me in favor of big-firm life as opposed to small-firm or solo practitioner life. I was a legal assistant making $11/hr at my last job. The work, while interesting, was mostly filling in blanks in forms and ghostwriting discovery. My boss’s daughter, a second-year associate at a big firm, told me that big-firm life was great because she got paid five times what I did to do basically the same work.
COMMENT: Big-firm work is boring and thankless until you achieve some responsibility with the firm. And that only happens if you’re lucky.

]]> http://myshingle.com/2006/06/articles/reasons-to-solo/solo-practice-the-most-overlooked-underrated-law-option/#comment-5979 Jeremy Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:30:00 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/547/solo-practice-the-most-overlooked-underrated-law-option/#comment-5979 I want to share the best advice anyone ever gave me in favor of big-firm life as opposed to small-firm or solo practitioner life. I was a legal assistant making $11/hr at my last job. The work, while interesting, was mostly filling in blanks in forms and ghostwriting discovery. My boss's daughter, a second-year associate at a big firm, told me that big-firm life was great because she got paid five times what I did to do basically the same work. COMMENT: Big-firm work is boring and thankless until you achieve some responsibility with the firm. And that only happens if you're lucky. I want to share the best advice anyone ever gave me in favor of big-firm life as opposed to small-firm or solo practitioner life. I was a legal assistant making $11/hr at my last job. The work, while interesting, was mostly filling in blanks in forms and ghostwriting discovery. My boss’s daughter, a second-year associate at a big firm, told me that big-firm life was great because she got paid five times what I did to do basically the same work.
COMMENT: Big-firm work is boring and thankless until you achieve some responsibility with the firm. And that only happens if you’re lucky.

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