Profiles
Brad Clark: A Kentucky Criminal Defense Attorney Pursues Expungements With Conviction…and Technology
At last month’s TBD Conference, I wound up in a break out session with Kentucky criminal defense attorney, Brad Clark. Not only did Brad open his own law practice a few months before, but at the same time, he launched the Unconvicted app that helps the firm quickly gather information from users to determine their…
Read MoreStephanie Lynn Ramos & Miriam LaCroix: Lawyers Who Stand Out From the Crowd By Securing Ethics Approval for Crowdfunded Law Firms in NY.
Last June, New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) released Ethics Opinion 1062 , the first ruling of its kind by any bar association or regulatory body to provide guidance on use of crowdfunding to launch a law firm. The Opinion was issued in response to this request by Stephanie Lynn Ramos and Miriam Lacroix, who at the…
Read MoreThe Law Firm That Launched Not With A Bang, But A Tweet.
Imagine turning to social media to grouse about how your frustration at your current law firm makes you want to start your own — and coming away not only with a sympathetic ear but two future law partners. Sounds crazy, but that’s the story of how how Chicago-based, African-American, female owned boutique law firm KMR…
Read MoreThe Eccentric Personality Types of Solo Lawyers
This post is part of the MyShingle Solos summer series which will run between June 17 and July 3, 2014. This post is written by MyShingle Guest Blogger Anne Harvey Young, would-be solo lawyers are an eccentric group—I know, because I used to be one. The year was 1991 and I couldn’t stand another minute…
Read MoreHe’s Changed the Way Law Is Practiced
I remember when I first corresponded with Enrico Schaefer, the Greatest American Lawyer back in the early days of the blogosphere. At the time, Enrico had just left his firm to start his own and was blogging anonymously presumably to keep his former partner from learning the details of his plan. When Enrico started his…
Read MoreCentury Solo
Though he died as head of a 625-lawyer firm, centenarian lawyer Christian Peper started as a solo. As described in St. Louis Today, Peper, along with his friend Malcolm Martin and Martin’s father started a law firm in a four room office back in 1941. Three months later, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and Peper, determined…
Read MoreShingular Sensations Michele Grant & Leo Mulvihill: Solo Celebrities on the Peoples’ Court
After a lengthy hiatus, we’re back on track with our Shingular Sensations, where we focus on solos who have achieved important victories or are otherwise doing interesting work. This month, we feature a pair of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based solos: Michele Grant [MG] of GrantMyersLLC.com – “The Artists Law Firm,” a full-service, talent-side firm focusing on…
Read MoreReview of Bryan A. Garner’s LawProse Seminars – by Roger Traversa
Editor’s Note: For legal and appellate writers, Bryan Garner’s seminars are renowned. Not only is Garner respected by, and popular with lawyers, but he apparently commands enough respect by the Supreme Court Justices that they willingly shared with Garner their writing secrets. But how do Garner’s writing seminars stack up? I’ve seen them advertised before…
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