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ABA $5000 Legal Rebels Essay Contest

August 25, 2010 by Carolyn Elefant

Though I’m not an ABA member, I’d be remiss in not informing those readers who are ABA members of this year’s $5000 Legal Rebels Essay Contest, open to ABA members and solos, defined as “a lawyer practicing alone with no partners.” To enter, submit an essay, not-to-exceed-600-words, in response to the question, “What innovation [...]

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SoloCorps Harnesses the Force of Storytelling + Video to Help Solo and Small Firm Lawyers

July 23, 2010 by Carolyn Elefant

The Power of Storytelling

–A guest post by Lisa Solomon
When Facebook reached 500 million users this week, it launched Facebook Stories, an application that enables Facebook users to share their stories about how the social networking site has impacted their lives. For readers, the stories are categorized by theme and location.
While reaching the 500 million-user milestone [...]

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SoloCorps Takes the Heartland: Video-Capturing the Solo Experience

July 16, 2010 by Carolyn Elefant

So, what is SoloCorps?
Well, it started out as a kind of modern-day road trip — two good friends who met online, driving across the heartland from Duluth, Minnesota to Omaha, Nebraska, Foursquaring our location and tweeting up with online colleagues along the way.  But as  Lisa Solomon and I got to talking about the trip, [...]

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Why You Should Register for MyShingle

July 12, 2010 by Carolyn Elefant

For over seven years, MyShingle was an entirely free blog, full of open content:  hundreds of blog posts as well as static resources like Soloformania (a compilation of forms commonly used by solos), Bars, Reviewed (a summary of benefits to solos offered by state bars) and the OnLine Guide to Starting A Practice (already well [...]

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The One-Sheet Generator. Yours, FREE, At MyShingle

July 12, 2010 by Carolyn Elefant

So, ever heard of a one-sheet?  Perhaps the best description comes from Wise Geek, which defines a one-sheet as a
single page document designed to provide a burst of information about a product for the purpose of sales or advertising….one-sheets are also usually constructed with some care to create a flashy, appealing image which makes them [...]

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The Declaration of Independence: The World’s Most Successful Mission Statement

July 4, 2010 by Carolyn Elefant

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. [...]

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Why Lawyers Who Care About SEO Must First Understand How It Works (and now they can)

June 17, 2010 by Carolyn Elefant

[NOTE - this post promotes a for-fee product from Legal Practice Pro, Search Engine Optimization for Lawyers, which includes an ebook, "Success Roadmap" and audio book (due out later) available for the next 3 days  - until 6/20 - for $20 (a substantial discount off the $49 list price) for MyShingle readers.  Click here to [...]

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Our [Soft] Relaunch

June 9, 2010 by Carolyn Elefant

I couldn’t have picked a worse time to relaunch MyShingle. I’m headed out of town later today, en route to the Missouri Solo & Small Firm Conference where I’m slated to make four presentations and participate in the keynote panel. Plus, I’ve got a filing to complete; a new client who just retained [...]

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ISO: A Few Good Solos, All Ages and Stages and Sizes (e.g., solos whose firms have grown) For Companion to Solo by Choice

March 22, 2010 by Carolyn Elefant

Given the popularity of the solo profiles in Solo by Choice SBC, I’ve decided to compile a companion volume comprised entirely of profiles of lawyers who are currently "solos by choice" (or even by involuntary choice) or who started out that solo but have since grown into a larger practice.  I’m looking for solos at [...]

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Solo Blogosphere Round Up

March 1, 2010 by Carolyn Elefant

1.  Lisa Solomon takes on Westlaw – It shouldn’t take a detective to figure out the answer to one single question:  How much will WestlawNext cost?  Yet, apparently, it does and so my friend, Lisa Solomon of Legal Research and Writing pro has been investigating.  Lisa hasn’t yet figured out the price, but she’s figured [...]

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