MyShingle.com
"Dedicated to the demands and desires of solos and small law firms, the clients we serve and others in the legal profession who use our services or dream of going out on their own." This blog was started to help students and lawyers at firms who want to create unconventional practices and to provide a place for solos to trade advice and tout their successes.
Author: Carolyn Elefant is a solo practitioner in Washington, D.C., who also authors Offshore Renewable Energy Law Blog and contributes to Legal Blog Watch and Lawyer Avenue. She is also author of the e-book Solo by Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Firms • Solos/Small Firms • Law Practice Management • Legal Marketing & Consulting • Solo / Small Firm • Blawg 100
Recent Posts from MyShingle.com
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Boo to Billable Hours, but Hooray for this Freebie
This post at Greatest American Lawyer reminded me that I'd forgotten to announce that John Derrick of California Appeals is making his book, Boo_to_Billable_Hours available free (that's zero billable hours!) at his site (click on…
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New York Bar Asks What Solos Want and Tries to Deliver
Not sure how I missed this when it first issued, but via Leonard Sienko of the NYSBA General Practice Blog, I learned about the New York State Bar Association's Solo and Small Firm Report, issued…
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Walter James, Environmental Counseling and Environmental Litigation
Though you don't find many solos practicing in areas like environmental law, that's Walter D. James expertise. Walter focuses his practice primarily on environmental counseling and environmental litigation, which includes civil enforcement and cost recovery…
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MyShingle Profile: Jay Fleischman, New York Bankruptcy Lawyer
The MyShingle profiles are an experimental feature here at MyShingle - to offer some insight into the careers of practicing solo and small firm attorneys, with questions on how they got their start to what…
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Clients Search Globally, Act Locally
Over at my roost at Nolo Legal Marketing Blawg, I posted about the Google Local Business Center where in exchange for listing a business, users receive access to a suite of tools that enables them…
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The Solo Bandwagon Marches On...
This week's news brings a handful of law firm start up stories. First, the Las Vegas Sun profiles two young female lawyers, Tara Young and Elizabeth Sorokac who lost their jobs in February and have…
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Happy Fathers' Day to the Unsung Solo Dads
My dad was what you'd call a company man; he worked as a chemist for a major pharmaceutical company for 35 years until he retired in 1997, avid to spend time with his first grandchild…
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Why Is Findlaw Charging Money for Inaccurate Forms When the Correct Forms Are Available Online for Free?
OK, so I understand that a company like Thomson Reuters doesn't "get" the concept of free. After all, Westlaw, one of Thomson Reuters' flagship legal products costs a pretty penny. Even so, it's one thing…
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Shingular Sensation Scott Greenfield Wins Landmark Victory Protecting Lawyer Speech, With Help from the Blogosphere
On June 9, 2009, New York solo and Simple Justice blogger Scott Greenfield won a unanimous, landmark ruling from the the New York Court of Appeals in Stern v. Bluestone, which ruled that unsolicited, informational…
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Newbie Solos and the Importance of Being Nerdy
Over at Legal Blogwatch, I posted about how shingler Kiwi Camara of Camara Sibley, not yet 25 years old and just five years out of law school is giving the RIAA a run for its…