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Office a Go Go

October 20, 2005 by Carolyn Elefant

From Jim Calloway comes this post, Office on the Go, which describes how lawyers can make their office transportable (no comment on whether this is always a good idea).  Jim recommends that if you can only have one machine, it should be a laptop.  And these days, laptops are inexpensive enough to justify.

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A Home Office Still Needs to Be An Office

September 12, 2005 by Carolyn Elefant

For all of you home office shinglers, fellow solo Lisa Solomon authored this guest post at Home Office Lawyer entitled “Putting the Office Back in the Home Office.”  Lisa offers a couple of quick tips to professionalize your home office so that you can keep your home-office and home-life separate from each other.

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There’s No Place [to Practice] Like Home

July 7, 2005 by Carolyn Elefant

Unfortunately, sometimes even solo and small firm lawyers harbor stereotypes about a home office set-up. But if anyone can put those stereotypes to rest, it would be my fellow blogger and solo, Grant Griffiths, who’s just launched this new web log, Home Office Lawyer. These days, home office is more synonymous with high-tech than homely, [...]

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Working from Home – A Viable Choice

November 22, 2004 by Carolyn Elefant

Many lawyers resist working from home, worrying primarily about image, as in this article here.  But a professional home based office is possible, as demonstrated by Nina Kallen and Lisa Solomon, the two sucessful attorneys profiled in  Home Alone, Margaret Graham Tebo, ABA Journal (November 2004).

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