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Yet another article, Smaller Can Be Beautiful for Some Lawyers, (bizjournal, 11/2005) on biglaw attorneys leaving their firms for smaller – or in this case, mid-sized pastures.   But what I found so sad about this piece is the reason that some folks stay on at biglaw:  not because they prefer the work but rather, they…

It’s not just biglaw attorneys who are hanging shingles these days.  This article,  AUSAs to Start New Trial Firm, Justin Scheck, the Recorder 11/23/2005 reports on a pair of former US Attorneys who’ll be hanging a shingle in Northern California and foregoing biglaw practice.  The reason?  These guys want to be trial lawyers.   And they’re…

Finally – it’s happening.  Big companies are started to wonder why they should pay $600 an hour to fly their regular biglaw counsel from New York or L.A. out to Buffalo or Kalamazoo to litigate a case, when they can just as well retain local counsel for a fraction of the price – and better…

As Thanksgiving and winter holidays approach, like me, many of you are probably scrambling to find the perfect gift for lawyer-friends and colleagues who’ve helped you throughout the year.  This year, you don’t need to waste any more billable hours looking for gifts because fellow solo Lisa Solomon and her attorney husband Mark have come…

Readers, I apologize.  I long ago promised to include a side link to any solo or small firm who asked and I’ve been a bit late in following through.  But tonight, I went through the old emails and hung up those shingles (it may take a little time for them to appear at the site,…

In these fast moving, high tech times where it seems that everything’s about buzz and hype, no one wants to be caught thinking inside the box.  But as Douglass Rushkoff explains in this essay Get Back in the Box (Fast Company 11/2005), more companies should think about climbing back in the box and returning to…

I’ve been back from BlawgThink for a few days, but for various reasons, haven’t been able to post my thoughts until now.  First, everything that’s already been written by my fellow BlawgThink attendees here and here and here — about the energy and the passion and vision  pulsing through the conference, not to mention the…

In a recent piece for Law Practice Today, (November 2005), Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell list nineteen web logs that deal with law practice management issues, including My Shingle.  You’ll want to make sure to include a bunch of these sites in your newsreader, if you haven’t already done so. solotips