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So, who’s been a solo long enough to remember when Jay Foonberg’s How to Start and Build a Law Practice was the only game in town?  These days, not only do the bar associations offer plentiful resources (many of which are listed here at our OnLine Guide), but weblogs like Greatest American Lawyer, Home Office…

My readers have probably realized that for the past couple of months I’ve been posting in spurts and clumps at a rate of two to three days a week.  I’ve been too busy to post every day and after much effort, am too disciplined to allow myself to spend any daylight hours getting carried away…

As Patrick Lamb points out in this blog post (also referencing this post from The Wired GC), general counsels at large companies are getting tired of the fixation on the billable hour.  As Wired GC explains, billable hour not only increases the cost of legal services, but it’s making mid level associates miserable – and…

Larry Bodine’s recently launched  Associate Marketing Blog offers this year-by-year Associate Marketing Checklist to help large firm associates identify and attain business development goals.  Anyone at a large firm who aspires to hang their own shingle or eventually work part time and raise a family, ought to be following – and in fact, even accelerating…

This article, Curb Your Editorial Urges When Describing a Court’s Actions, Kenneth Oettle (NJLJ) (10/5/050)  finally clarified for me the subtle differences in verbs like recognized, observed, ruled, held and others that describe how a court acted.  As a general rule of thumb, here’s how the author feels about some of these verbs:    …

And speaking of conferences, Ernie the Attorney links to this upcoming seminar on disaster recovery for lawyers.  I’m sure that no one wants to have to attend a seminar like this one, but it’s nice that it’s available when it’s needed.  And, you even get CLE credit for it.

This past post on comments by a solo deconstructing biglaw salaries (basically saying that the hourly rate is more along the lines of $30/hour if an associate works 90 hours a week) has generated many comments which I thought I’d address in an additional post.  First, thanks to readers who have pointed out that a…

Funny contrast in this week’s news.  This article, How Women Can Develop Business, National Law Journal (9/29/05) bemoans that women at large firms have it tough when it comes to business development, citing obstacles like lack of effective mentoring and  difficulty of striking a manageable work-life balance.  (The article does offer many useful suggestions for…