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David Swanner posts this excerpt from a rehearing petition that’s likely to lose.  Read it and see if you can figure out why: Statement of Issue Presented for Review: The Court of Appeals committed a major error in affirming the dismissal. The Court did not address the facts of the case. The Court has a…

Via Ben Cowgill, I learned about Jim Calloway’s announcement about the Oklahoma Bar’s website for Starting A Law Firm.  Even if you’re not starting a practice in Oklahoma, there’s quite a bit that you can learn from the resources at the site.

As if it weren’t enough that multiple bloggers continue to go solo, the number of blogs on solo practice are also proliferating.  Welcome three newcomers, Ray Dowd of Small Firm Life, Victor Medina’s Solo Law Practice Blog, and Take the Fifth (launched in December 2005) about an Estate Planning attorney building a practice.   Is solo…

As more law firm bloggers turn solo (including this one), Supreme small firm lawyer Tom Goldstein, bucks the trend with his recent announcement that he’s moving on to join a large firm.  I’ve got mixed feelings about this one.  On the one hand, Tom’s move is testament to my belief that solo practice can take…

I like to think that I’m pretty good at multi-tasking but reading this post by Greatest American Lawyer tired me out.  In a couple of three minute intervals that would have otherwise gone wasted, GAL added two items to the firm extranet, Practicing Law from the Kitchen Table and in the Car, dictated instructions to…

Frequently, either in emails to this site or on my listserves, I see questions by lawyers asking about “of counsel” arrangements, from how to find these relationships to what kind of contract should be used to memorialize them.  So I was happy to see that Dennis Kennedy has done the work for us with this…

This article, A small firm’s approach to competition – go paperless (Biz Journal 2/27/06) reports on Baltimore area, solo attorney Adam Spence who’s been able to limit his office to one large file cabinet as a result of his decision to go paperless.  The cost – $1300 for a top of the line scanner.  Clients’…

On the surface, the two articles that I’m linking in this post have nothing in common or nothing to do with solo practice.  But if you look deeper, you’ll see the obvious connection:  both offer ideas for niche practice. This article, Lawyer’s specialty:  Advice for gay, unmarried couples, Pittsburgh Post Gazette (2/27/06) describes a biglaw…