Archive for July 2008
From Reader Michael Smith: A Checklist for Opening A Law Office
Have you started the final countdown to opening your practice? Whether you have six months or 6 week weeks until take-off, you’ll find Michael Smith’s concise article, A Checklist for Opening A Law Office from this month’s issue of the Texas Bar Journal extremely useful. What qualifies Smith to write this piece? Well, he started…
Read MoreResources for Solos and Small Firms Practicing Criminal Law
Russ Bensing of the Briefcase provides this quick but thorough recap of the Supreme Court’s thirteen criminal law related decisions of the past term, with links to each of the decision. Bensing describes that his summary keeps with the original intention of his blog, which was to "create a resource for solo practitioners and small…
Read MoreThe Successful Solo Mindset: Overcome Your Fears to Achieve Your Professional Goals
I’m happy to announce that on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 in conjunction with Lisa Solomon of Legal Research and Writing Pro, I’ll be giving a teleseminar entitled, The Successful Solo Mindset: Overcome Your Fears to Achieve Your Professional Goals. Here’s a course description: Many lawyers and professionals long to hang out a shingle, but fear…
Read MoreLA Solo/Small Firm Conference – I’m Back!
I hope to post more on the terrific Los Angeles County Small and Solo Law Conference where I spoke last week, in particular to share some of what I learned (yes, I don’t know it all yet!) from the impressive panel of speakers at the conference. But for now, just a quick message to let…
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