Archive for November 2012
The $75/hour law firm
No, not joking. Just a few days after my two part series on the viability of a $99/hour firm, I came across this $75/hour business model, the Justice Cafe in Fulton County Georgia, offering a la carte family law service to walk in clients. Lawyers staffing the Justice Cafe will work on contract and collect…
Read MoreWould You Recognize Your Own Website from Its Copy?
If you’ve got five minutes to spare, I commend you to join Adam Smith Esquire’s Bruce MacEwen in a round of “Guess Which Firm’s Website?” As Bruce describes: The rules are simple: Pick three or four firms at random, visit their websites, and pretend you can’t see the logo identifying the firm. Try to guess…
Read MoreThis Is What Happens When You Scare Solo and Small Firm Lawyers Away From the Cloud
Many solo and small firm lawyers are still suffering the effects of Hurricane Sandy, reports the New York Law Journal. Power outages of a week or more, left many solo and small firm lawyers unable to access files or communicate with the court. What’s most unfortunate, is that the after effects of the storm could…
Read MoreHow Low Can (or Should) You Go: Part II
Following yesterday’s post exploring the viability of the $99/hour lawyer as a business model, discussion (if you can call an exchange of 140 character blurbs and bursts real discussion) ensued on Twitter. I wanted to use this post to summarize my view of the argument and also clarify the context of my post. Defending People…
Read MoreBilling Like It’s 1989: The $99/Hour Lawyer
Call it a new kind of legal limbo as law firms take a turn on the conga line to see just how low they can go. Only this form of limbo isn’t a game, but serious business. Large firms are quoting suicide rates to keep business reports Lawyerist while solos and nonlawyer networks are exploring…
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