Archive for May 2009
Mommy, You’re A Hypocrite!
Yesterday, while driving home from the mall with my daughters, they began fantasizing about the day that my older daughter would get her license (still four years off) so that they could go shopping together, sans mom. My daughters then asked if I’d let them take the car to the mall or other destinations when…
Read MoreVeterans’ Issues As A Practice Area
A few years back, I highlighted a small firm specializing in veterans’ issues. Now, four years later demand for legal services for veterans remains high. Fortunately, for solos considering veterans rights and benefits as a practice area, there are multiple opportunities for first rate, hands on training. Today, the Maryland Daily Record discusses the HPRP…
Read MoreLast Call to Get A Life
The Total Attorney’s Practice Management Association Get a Life conference begins this Wednesday, May 27 and continues through May 28. There’s a great line up of speakers who don’t typically present at these kinds of events (at least, not all in one place!) including my colleague and friend Allison Shields and some fun activities as well. …
Read MoreCalling All Innovative Solo Lawyers – Innovaction Contest!
At the request of my blogging colleague, Jordan Furlong of Law21 and Chair of the College of Law Practice Management Innovaction program, I’m somewhat belatedly posting this call for nominations for this year’s Innovaction Awards sponsored by the College of Law Practice Management. The awards are given to law firms or other legal services providers…
Read MoreThere Is No Stress Like…
Many of you may know what it’s like to stand up when the jury verdict’s about to be read. Your heart pounds, your palms sweat and you get weak in the knees. The seconds seem like an eternity as you wait to learn the result. Before I became a mom, I could think of nothing…
Read MoreLawyer Marketing Resources
I’m not flashy about marketing, nor am I a believer in those pricey “silver bullet” systems, where the only people who win are the experts selling their products. Still, I do cover marketing issues, both here at my blog in the Marketing & Making Money category and at the Nolo Legal Marketing Blawg (Nolo is…
Read MoreShould You Charge for, Or Mark Up the Costs of Legal Research?
This post was originally published May 17, 2009 and was updated May 9, 2022. Many years ago, I posted at Legal Blogwatch about an ongoing lawsuit against biglaw firmChadbourne Park, alleging that Chadbourne engaged in deceptive practices and committedfraud for, among other things, billing the client $20,000 for online research services whenthe actual cost to…
Read MoreGoing Solo Means Never Having to Say You Were Fired
A few weeks back, a reader, discouraged after having failed the bar exam yet again, asked whether he should give up on his dream of starting his own practice. Of the advice that I offered, what resonated most with the reader was my reminder that no matter how many times he passed the bar, once…
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