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Carolyn Elefant

Carolyn Elefant

Carolyn Elefant owns the Law Offices of Carolyn Elefant. She launched MyShingle.com in 2002. It was the very first blog for and about solo and small law firms, and part of the first generation of 100 lawyer blogs to come online.  To date, MyShingle.com remains the most comprehensive online resource for solo and small firm lawyers with thousands of blog posts and an impressive stock of free e-books, checklists and forms on starting and running a law firm. Carolyn is also the author of Solo by Choice: How to Start a Law Firm and Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be.  Carolyn has co-authored the ABA Publication “Social Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier" and "The Legal ClauseIt: Plug & Play Engagement Agreements and Power Pacts for Small Law Firms" Carolyn has been listed as an Energy and Environmental Super Lawyer for Washington D.C. since 2012 (the only small firm lawyer on a list of AmLaw 200 firms), was named an ABA Legal Rebel (2010), a Fastcase 50 Innovator (2011) and an ABA Woman of Legal Tech (2014) and appeared on the Daily Show in 2014 to discuss law firm business models.  In 2019, Carolyn delivered a talk at the prestigious 2CivilityConference entitled Killing Solo Softly: How Regulations Disadvantage Solo & Small Firm Lawyers.

Unconventional Business Models With Conventional Success for Law Firms

Hands down 🙌, one of the best parts of starting or owning your own law firm is the ability to create a novel business model

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Carolyn Elefant July 7, 2023

Emerging Developments in Flat Fees

Since this last post summarizing 15 states’ ethics opinions on flat fees as of September 2022, there have been some new developments on the flat

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Carolyn Elefant July 6, 2023

Five Online Lawyer Marketing Red Flags  That Can Leave Law Firms Red-Faced

Most lawyers can methodically recite the ethics rules that govern marketing. ❎ No guaranteed results.   ❎ Required labeling as “attorney advertising.” ❎ No unverifiable superlatives. 

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Carolyn Elefant July 5, 2023

Systemising Your Law Firm While Keeping The Human Element

[sponsored blog post by LexReception.com] Streamlining, optimizing and automating are key to growing or scaling a practice. According to research by Clio, the average lawyer

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Carolyn Elefant June 9, 2023

How Soon Before AI Kills the Billable Hour?

Earlier this week, stock prices for Chegg, which provides study materials and outlines for high school and college students, plunged by almost 48 percent reports

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Carolyn Elefant May 3, 2023

Announcing the Law Firm AI-ccelerator Speaker Line-Up

TDLR – ENROLL TODAY! I get by with a little help from my friends. The Beatles sure knew what they were talking about when they

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Carolyn Elefant April 21, 2023

Make Money Monday: Tout Your Tech

Can a law firm’s use of artificial intelligence be a selling point for clients?  Biglaw firm DLA Piper thinks so. Last month, DLA Piper publicly

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Carolyn Elefant April 10, 2023

ABA Ethics Rules on Choice of Law in Multi-Jurisdiction Practice

Starting a law firm that operates in multiple jurisdictions can be lucrative, but also confusing with multiple, competing ethics rules.  In March 2023, the ABA

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Carolyn Elefant April 4, 2023
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