Operations

Recently, Bob Ambrogi reported  on the results of a survey on management and technology challenges faced by solo and small law firms of up to 30 lawyers, conducted by the Thomson Reuters Solo and Small Firm Law Group . Among the various topics covered, the survey asked solo and small firm lawyers how they measure…

For the past two weeks, the tiny-minded legal world has been obsessed with one issue: Cravath’s announcement  that it would raise starting first year associate salaries to $180,000 (the first significant movement from the $160,000 baseline in 2007) and the mighty roar of the lock-step monsters – er, copy cat law firms – racing to…

Shaan Patel’s advice to entrepreneurs to be a big fish in a small pond to increase their chances of entrepreneurial success applies with equal force to lawyers embarking on a solo or small firm career. Patel, a joint MBA/MD student and owner of Prep Expert learned this lesson the hard way after trying to launch…

After five years and three different courts, solo Ekaterina Schoenefeld’s challenge to the constitutionality of Jud. Law 470  has come to an unfortunate conclusion.  A decision by the Second Circuit ruled that the Jud. Law 470 – which requires non-resident, New York-barred lawyers to maintain a bonafide office in the state while resident lawyers are…

Over the years, I’ve posted quite a bit about non-traditional office space options like co-working , on demand space and even hybrid vacation/work space. Although any one of these alternatives are suitable for lawyers, none of them are designed exclusively for lawyers. But increasingly, co-working spaces for lawyers have been cropping up all over the…

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but for some lawyers, a little bit of healthy curiosity can lead to a killing in new business niches. At least, that was the experience of Philip Rosen, co-head of big law firm Weil Gotshal’s real-estate practice.  As the Wall Street Journal recently described, while dropping his daughter off…