Another Nader Anise Free Teleseminar

Nader Anise has just put out a “save the date” for his upcoming, annual “Lawyer Appreciation” free teleseminar. The seminar is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 15 from 12:30 pm to around 2:00 pm EASTERN, with 800 lawyers expected to call in. This year’s topic is “Making it BIG as a high-profile, celebrity lawyer,” and there’s…

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Contest for Small Businesses

Do you have a neat idea for a unique kind of law firm that breaks precedent? Or perhaps, like many of my solo lawyer friends, The Billable Hour here or here, you’ve come up with a non-legal side business. If so, then surf on over to Anita Campbell’sSmall Business Trends to learn about three contests…

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Billing Alternatives For Solos

Here’s an article from the ABA Journal entitled Billing by the Slice, which offers some alternative billing ideas by and for solos. With “billing by the slice,” lawyers bill for a case in stages – a practice used by Ted Waggoner of Rochester Indiana. From the article, Waggoner describes that: he might tell a client…

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It’s Never Too Early To Think About Starting A Business

Over at Escape from Cubicle Nation, Pam Slim suggests that you bring your kid to your start up day. The point of the Slim’s post is that by showing our children and others what we do, we lay the seeds for potential entrepreneurship. I’ve always adopted Slim’s approach, more by necessity than choice. My daughers…

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