Archive for December 2005

I love the blog The Practice, written by three practicing solos, Jon Stein, Shane Jimison and Barry Kaufman.  And generally, I generally agree with most of the advice that the trifecta dispenses.  But I part company with Jon’s recent post that the value of a top law school is overrated for those who want to…

Let me proclaim here and now, for the record, that I’m the founding partner in a law firm, The Law Offices of Carolyn Elefant.  Yes, it’s a law firm of one and I’m the only partner, but my firm is just as legitimate and real as any of these.  So why is it then, that…

Matt Homann of Non Billable Hour is asking all of us lawyers to share our resolutions for 2006 as part of his “Resolutions for Lawyers” blog series.  I haven’t yet decided what I’m going to submit, but I do have plenty of ideas.  Which in itself makes me grateful because there was a time in…

As most of my readers know, I started my law firm twelve years ago, after five years of practicing as an energy attorney, first for the government and then as an associate with a boutique practice.  My firm unceremoniously gave me notice and six months to find a new job, saying that I wasn’t partnership…

Debra Koven’s ranting appellate brief (see excerpts at 5-8) isn’t something that as a lawyer, I’d ever write and as a judge I’d ever want to read.  Among other things, Koven accused opposing counsel of suborning perjury and claimed in her brief that “the fix was in.”  As a result, the court ordered a $2000…