My Shingle

February 2010

Social Media or the Internet Alone Won’t Help You Find A Job

February 8, 2010 by Carolyn Elefant

Don’t get me wrong – I’m a fan of social media when used ethically and responsibly.  Heck, I’ve got a book on  social media for lawyers with Niki Black that’s coming out at the end of next month. As a shy person myself, I understand the appeal of social media:  it’s easy.  You don’t risk [...]

Read more Networking 5 comments

Boutique Practice: Leaving the Land of Loss Leaders

February 4, 2010 by Carolyn Elefant

The twenty-first century version of loss leaders, big-law style, is nothing more than old fashioned price cutting wars, observes Toby Brown at Three Geeks and a Law Blog.  A loss leader refers to a pricing strategy whereby a product is advertised below cost to lure customers in the hopes of selling them more profitable, big [...]

Read more Biglaw Practice and Issues 1 comment

Return of the Part Time Shingle – February 18, 2010

February 3, 2010 by Carolyn Elefant

The wildly popular The Part-Time Shingle Teleseminar is back. Carolyn Elefant, author of Solo By Choice and the blog, MyShingle and Julie Tower-Pierce, author of Staying at Home: Staying in the Law and the flexible lawyering blog, DarlingHill.com, are teaming up once again on Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 12:30 p.m. ET to offer another [...]

Read more Announcements 0 comments

UPDATE – I lost my temper [I Should Be Banned from the Blogosphere? As If...]

February 3, 2010 by Carolyn Elefant

UPDATE 2/4/10 – 7:45 am  Below is a post that I should not have written.  I let my temper get the better of me and attributed a view to a respected colleague, Mark Bennett, that I should not have.  Mark actually apologized in a comment, but I too am responsible.  Jumping to conclusions, as I [...]

Read more Announcements 8 comments

Learning About the Future of Law From Our Kids

February 2, 2010 by Carolyn Elefant

Yesterday, my thirteen year old came home from school and announced that her science teacher now requires all of the students to keep their materials – class notes, homework, handouts and the like – on Dropbox.  And so, my daughter and her classmates spent the most of the class uploading documents from their computers (probably [...]

Read more Cloud Technology 8 comments

Ghostbusting in the Blogosphere: Is Ghostblogging Unethical & What’s the Best Way to Deal With It?

February 1, 2010 by Carolyn Elefant

Back in 2004, now my departed-from-the-blogosphere friend David Giacalone predicted that Ghostblogging Will Kill the Blogosphere.  In a thoughtful post that considered the issue from all sides, David criticized the ethics of ghost blogging and lamented that that mass produced, ghostblogs would be “devoid of the spark of life that has put magic into this way [...]

Read more Blogging 21 comments

Next Entries →