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Tips for Choosing Virtual Office Space
Many lawyers starting a practice opt for virtual office space — basically, a physical location that provides various amenities such as a mailing address and forwarding, a few hours of office or conference room space and/or receptionist of answering services. For lawyers with limited resources or who prefer to work from home, virtual space, in…
Read MoreWould You Rent Office Space If It Only Cost $500/Month – And What Can We Do To Make That Happen?
[Note – this is a long read, and it’s about much more than the home vs. office debate but rather, the importance of affordable office space to the sustainability of solos and long term access to justice] Fishtown Lawyer Jordan Rushie makes some strong arguments in favor of renting office space when starting a firm.…
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Solo And Small Firms: 2018 In Review And What’s Next Why Becoming By Michelle Obama Must Become Required Reading For Women Law Students And Lawyers Scholars Flummoxed That Minority Lawyers Can Have High Levels of Professional Satisfaction When They Primarily Practice As ‘Lowly’ Solo Practitioners Bringing The Two Faces Of Legal Innovation Together And Survey…
Read MoreSolos & Smalls – Time to Weigh in On Changes to California
Last week, the State Bar of California released for public comment several proposals for regulatory reforms developed by the California Task Force on Access Through Innovation of Legal Services. Designed to spur innovation and expand access to justice options, the task force proposed three key reforms Narrowing restrictions on the unauthorized practice of law (UPL)…
Read MoreUsing New York’s Residency Law As A Sword To Dispose of Opponents, Not A Shield To Protect Clients
If you want to see an example of how laws purported to protect clients do anything but, look no further than Platinum Rapid Funding Group v. HD Raleigh Inc, d/b/a/ Pure Med Spa, a recent decision out of a New York court in Nassau County. There, the court granted the plaintiff’s motion to disqualify New…
Read MoreSecond Cities for Law Firms
Last year, I blogged about Second City Solos which suggested that lawyers may have more success in getting a new law practice off the ground since they’ll face less competition than they would in major metropolis cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, NeW York City, Washington D.C., etc… But today, I came across this article…
Read MorePart II: Casetext Is Three-Dimensional Research – Watch How A Real Lawyer Uses It
As I observed in PART I of this post, for decades, legal research — even with later innovations – has been flat and one-dimensional, mimicking the way that lawyers once hunted for cases in hard copy case reporters and digests. But the latest version of Casetext transforms the legal research experience into something at once elegant and…
Read MoreTwo Ethics Rules Ripe for Constitutional Challenge: Anyone Want to Take This On?
Post updated April 20, 2022 – As of April 2022, many states have eliminated the prohibition on trade names. See here. In Part I of the Post , I blogged about solo Ekaterina Schoenefeld’s nine year battle to have New York’s out-of-state lawyer bonafide office requirement invalidated as unconstitutional. Schoenefeld’s fight, however, shows the kind…
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