Archive for November 2005
Some Really Bad Taglines
Patrick McEvoy of Rainmaker Best Practices wonders about who thought of these really awful law firm taglines? (McEvoy doesn’t name names, but you can find many of the taglines that he uses as examples and their respective owners on this list.) So what’s McEvoy’s test for a good tagline? Basically, it’s a phrase that says…
Read MoreSmall Firms Need Websites for Marketing – But That’s Not All
This article, Making Their Case to Clients (Nov. 13, 2005) reports on a recent LexisNexis Martindale Hubbell survey on small firm marketing practices. The survey found that small firm lawyers spend five percent of their revenues and eight percent of their time on marketing efforts. And the majority of firms surveyed said that “hanging a…
Read MoreNineteen Practice Management Blogs
In a recent piece for Law Practice Today, (November 2005), Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell list nineteen web logs that deal with law practice management issues, including My Shingle. You’ll want to make sure to include a bunch of these sites in your newsreader, if you haven’t already done so. solotips
Read MoreWould You Fire A Client Who Doesn’t Take Your Advice? Here’s What Doctors Are Doing…
What do you do when a client consistently refuses to take your advice? It’s a knotty problem for many lawyers as to whether they should keep those disagreeing clients and try to bring them around or simply dump them. This article, Feuding Over Vaccines, (Sandra G. Boodman, Washington Post, November 8, 2005) discusses how pediatricians…
Read MoreTwo Great New Solo Blogs: Qui Custodes and NY MedMal
Just wanted to announce to great new blogs by solos. First up, by my colleague here in the DC are David Kaufman is Qui Custodes, a blog of personal security tips. In his introductory post, David explains the derivation of the blog’s name (roughly meaning "who guards the guardians") and reminds us that even as…
Read MoreHappy Birthday Solosez
Long before solos were blogging and before it was cool to be solo, a band of ABA solos from the GP Solo Committee had a great idea: why not start an online community. Thus, as Meg Tebo (also a sezzer) reports in A Birthday to Celebrate (11/2005), Bruce Dorner and others joined forces to create…
Read MoreA Bad Lawyer, But Why the Gratuitous Comments?
Another article about a really bad solo, Jo-Ellen Wells (Estate Seeks to Disbar Divorce Lawyer), this one out of New Hampshire who took money from several clients and never did the work and in one instance, represented a divorcing wife when the lawyer had already been retained by the husband (though apparently, Wells never did…
Read MoreMake Your Own Firm Holiday
Since many of us solos may find ourselves working on more less universally observed federal holidays like Columbus Day or Veterans’ Day Solo, Brandi Karl has a great idea to compensate: proclaim your own holiday! Of course, Brandi’s holidays are more productive than observant: she suggests Brainstorming Day (to devote to a certain project), Work…
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