Practice Smart.
From the monthly archives:
Why do I picture Clint Eastwood when I read that headline?
That ultimatum comes to you courtesy of Law.com’s Small Firm Business section. The article, written by Judith Roland, advises that “like it or not a web presence has become imperative for a successful law practice.”
I agree with the underlying premise of the article (that a [...]
{ 0 comments }
I got the opportunity to head up to Pilot Mountain, North Carolina today to meet with some lawyers and talk about the law practice management issues facing solo practitioners and small firm lawyers in rural areas. (The photo was not taken by me, I stupidly forgot my camera, but the mountain was too interesting looking [...]
{ 2 comments }
The question of what to charge is one of the hardest for a new lawyer (or really, any lawyer) to answer. The largely unhelpful conventional wisdom is “don’t be the most expensive or the cheapest lawyer in town”. The free market answer is to charge however much you can without losing so many clients due [...]
{ 0 comments }
Remember Field of Dreams, where Kevin Costner builds a baseball stadium on his Iowa farm to let the ghosts of old baseball players play? That voice in his head (which I’m sure has plenty of non-supernatural explanations that can be found in the DSM) keeps telling him that if he builds this ballpark, people will [...]
{ 1 comment }
What would you say to reducing your office rent to zero? To reducing your overhead to next to nothing? To reducing your commute to the time it takes you to walk from your bedroom to your home office?
Sound pretty good?
It’s an appealing idea to a growing number of lawyers who have ditched the traditional notion [...]
{ 5 comments }