Carolyn Elefant has the best-known blog on starting a law practice at My Shingle. She has posted an interesting project where she uses mind-mapping software to create a diagram outlining the thoughts and processes of starting a law firm. It is likely that you will want to click on the logo in the
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2008 Summer Reading List: Solo by Choice
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We are definitely into the 2008 summer reading season now and so I am going to feature some great summer reading materials over the next few weeks–all in the law practice arena.
I can almost hear some of you chuckling now. Reading about law practice ideas in your summer recreation time probably sounds very unappealing.
2nd Annual GPSSF National Solo and Small Firm Conference a Success
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Last week’s 2nd Annual GPSSF National Solo and Small Firm Conference in Philadelphia was a success by any measure. We had over 230 registered attendees and a large percentage of them were members of the Solosez community from all across the country. Marion J. Browning-Baker, an attorney from Stuttgart, Germany won the "farthest travel to…
2007 GPSSF National Solo and Small Firm Conference
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I’ve got a presentation this morning for the statewide Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Conference and then I rush to the airport to catch a flight to the 2007 ABA GPSSF National Solo and Small Firm Conference in Philadelphia. This conference looks to be a great success, with attendance approaching perhaps 200 solo and small…
From Business Boot Camp to The New Lawyer Experience
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The American Bar Association publication Your ABA recently highlighted a program that had me as one of the panelists at ABA Annual Meeting. Read this nice article about our Business Boot Camp for Lawyers. We had a nice audience and my co-panelists were great.
In Oklahoma, it is time for lawyers who are either…
Site of the Week: The Inspired Solo Blog
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Several blogs about solo law practice have sprung up recently. Some are very good. Some are perhaps still in the developmental stage. And, I don’t mean to sound cynical, but I know many of them will not survive long. The lawyer will get busy with "real work" or discover after a few posts that they…
Must Read Material for Solos II: Best of Solo and Small Firm Conferences
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Near the end of January two great magazines focusing on solo and small firm law practice showed up on my desk. Both magazines had several personal connections to me (and several friends and colleagues) along with lots of material I wanted to highlight for you. In my prior post I noted that the American Bar …
Must Read Material for Solos: Law Practice – SOLOS, Rising to the Challenge
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I’d love to point you to three great collections of materials for Solo and Small Firm lawyers, all from the American Bar Association. (Well, two graded great and one "needs improvement.") But, due to inconsistent ABA policies, the explanation of what is available, when and to whom, is a bit complex. So I’ll cover these…
New Lawyer Training Holds Lessons for All Lawyers
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Our fall edition of the New Lawyer Experience program is completed. Over 150 lawyers attended in either Oklahoma City or Tulsa, with the majority being brand new lawyers who were sworn in the week before. (When you learn that they were forced to listen to me for five hours, it might sound more like new…
Technology Purchases: When is the Best not the Best?
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Don’t we all want the very best? Dennis Kennedy has recently been republishing on his blog some of his older writing that were originally published elsewhere. There’s a lot of good, very relevant information to be found in those posts. But I really wanted to highlight one concept because it relates to my daily work.