Archive for June 2005
More Shingles Added
I’ve just added another dozen or so new names to the list of "Other Shingles." It sometimes takes some time for them to appear. But if you’ve submitted your name and don’t see it on the list by tomorrow evening, shoot me another email with your information. Also, please let me know if there are…
Read MoreMost Attorneys Would Not Go Solo – A Survey I Don’t Believe
According to this Press Release of May 25, 2005 by legal placement agency Robert Half, 93 percent of lawyers polled said that they would not establish a law firm even if they had the necessary capital. OK, I’m biased, but frankly, I don’t believe the survey at all. Here are some of the problems I…
Read MoreAre Solos Really Free?
Thanks to David Giacalone of f/k/a for this post on Lowell Komie’s fiction about law practice, including what it’s like to be a solo (see this one too). David also quotes from Komie and his apparently mixed feelings about whether a solo practitioner is truly “free.” Consider these two views expressed by Komie in an…
Read MoreCould That Person Sitting Next To You Be Your Deep Throat?
How many times have you taken a seat next to an anonymous soul in the courtroom or CLE seminar, averted your eyes and opened up your Palm Pilot or newspaper to entertain yourself while waiting for the session to start? I’ve done that more times than I should, but I won’t be doing it anymore. …
Read MoreTexas Bar Does What MyShingle Did Almost Three Years Ago
This article (Texas Lawyer, 6/1/05) reports on an online resource for starting a law firm that includes articles, manuals, guides – and even a place to purchase books on starting a practice. No, the article’s not reporting on MyShingle or our On Line Guide which has been up and running since December 2002 (with a…
Read MoreAre the Bars Out of Touch on Ethics?
Blogger Stuart Levine of the always first rate Tax and Business Law Blog has a provocative post on the Maryland Disciplinary Committee’s Mechanical Ethics. In the post, Levine offers several examples of how the Maryland committee ignores technologic developments that facilitate the practice of law and “regularly disregards the economic consequences of its decisions.”
Read MoreUS Government Recognizes Weblogs
Janell Grenier a solo who writes both Benefits Blog and Erisa Blog has let me know that the Department of Labor has included her blogs as well as others in its resource list, as she describes in this post. As Janell has suggested (and I concur), this federal recognition of blogs, particularly those operated by…
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