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This article from New York Lawyer (August 19, 2005) tells us solos what we already know — that going solo takes versatility and courage — as well as something we don’t —  that the number of lawyers willing to risk hanging a shingle has dwindled.  (I took issue with this survey in this prior post). …

According to this article, (8/16/2005), West Virginia attorneys must file a disclosure with the State Bar Association as to whether they have malpractice insurance.  Eventually, the information could be made public, allowing people who want to hire a lawyer the ability to know if they have insurance coverage. Although for my first two years of…

Spent the past week on a family vacation here which accounts for the blogging lull.  As you can see, we’re back on track.

Thanks David Giacalone for this post that lead me to an article from the Washington D.C. Bar Journal entitled, Time Out, time Off:  Lawyers on Sabbatical (August 2005).  The article describes that many large firm allow lawyers to take sabbaticals but that few lawyers take advantage of them.  I had a couple of thoughts. First,…

Yesterday was the start of the ABA’s Annual Meeting in Chicago.   Bob Ambrogi reports that the Litigation Section will be blogging the highlights of the conference which gives me some reassurance that the ABA has entered the twenty first century. Still, with so little buzz about the ABA on law related weblogs, I can’t help…

I am back from Blogher and I’ll be sharing what I’ve learned later today.  In the meantime, because I’ve been too time-strapped to post, here’s a link to Blawg Review 17, posted at Greatest American Lawyer.   Because GAL is an independent practitioner, much of what he’s focused on in his review – particularly, the marketing…

I’ll be catching a flight out to the West Coast tomorrow, headed for the Blogher conference where I’ll be on one of the panels.  This is all very new for someone like me who attends  conferences predominated by lawyers.  At Blogher, while I’ll be in the gender majority, seems that I may be in the…

Well after all of the controversy, looks like the Massachusetts legislature will raise rates for court appointed attorneys as reported here in State House OK’s Raises for Lawyers for the Poor, David Abel (July 22, 2005).  According to the article, lawmakers will increase court appointed rates to $100 an hour from $61.50 for homicide cases;…