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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…

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…

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…

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…

Postings will be light the rest of the week as I head out to the Los Angeles Bar Smalll and Solo Law Conference as well as the ALM West Coast Legal Tech Show.  As always, leaving town when your spouse works in another city and you need to find care for your kids is always…

You know how it is with yawns, don’t you?  When one person yawns at you, it’s difficult to resist yawning back.  So now that my fellow solo-blogging colleague Susan Cartier Liebel has yawned, or more accurately, alerted us to the trend of “young and wealthy normals,” I’m compelled to yawn back (by the way, for…

I’ve just completed a new project that I’m rolling out tonight…Lawagora.ning.com – a marketplace of events for and by lawyers.  In the past few months, I’ve realized how many quality events, on and offline are available for lawyers – yet we often never hear about them because the publicity is either ad hoc, or directed…

Here’s a quick round up of links that may hold some interest for readers: William Henderson of the Empirical Legal Studies Blog shares some trends that may impact solo and small firm practitioners (in particular, the declining number of trials) and tips his hat to solo and small firm lawyers for the good work they…