Editor’s Note: We asked solo practitioners to write an essay or record a video telling us how they innovate. Specifically, they were asked to answer this question: “What innovation will be most valuable to you in your future practice as a solo practitioner?”
It’s nearly 4 a.m. and, with a final call to a client in Angola in south-central Africa, Teresa Farah is about to call it a day. Her sleeping 2-year-old daughter will wake in four hours, and Farah needs to rest so they can spend the morning together before the baby sitter arrives.
Editor’s Note: We asked solo practitioners to write an essay or record a video telling us how they innovate. Specifically, they were asked to answer this question: “What innovation will be most valuable to you in your future practice as a solo practitioner?”
7-word bio: “Innovational speaker, creative facilitator, dad to Gracie.”
Editor’s Note: We asked solo practitioners to write an essay or record a video telling us how they innovate. Specifically, they were asked to answer this question: “What innovation will be most valuable to you in your future practice as a solo practitioner?”
7-word bio: “Lead prosecutor of billable hour and timesheets.”
Editor’s Note: We asked solo practitioners to write an essay or record a video telling us how they innovate. Specifically, they were asked to answer this question: “What innovation will be most valuable to you in your future practice as a solo practitioner?”
In late 2005, some of Stuart Kaplow’s friends tried to talk him out of changing his 20-year law practice in real-estate development so radically that it would be doomed. And they probably were right—except the practice area changed.
Editor’s Note: We asked solo practitioners to write an essay or record a video telling us how they innovate. Specifically, they were asked to answer this question: “What innovation will be most valuable to you in your future practice as a solo practitioner?”
7-word bio: “Personal injury attorney, biker lawyer, resource, father.”
Finding an affordable apartment in New York City is serious business—so serious that tenant lawyer Steven De Castro grossed about $200,000 in contingency fees last year representing clients in rent-stabilized apartments. And that doesn’t include a $664,000 contingency-fee judgment he finally collected, which he had recovered a few years earlier.
“As midlife crises go, law school was less risky than either a mistress or a sports car,” jests Bruce Cameron, a biomedical researcher who at 47 launched a straight-from-law-school, rural solo practice two years ago.
7-word bio: “GC, entrepreneur, crew, Yale, Harvard, four kids.”
Two young families purchase a duplex together intending to share their assets in the spirit of casual co-housing. A retired couple who bought a single-family home with a longtime friend adds an addition so they can live separately, yet time-share the kitchen and a handful of other resources. Ten families come together to build a day care center and cooperatively care for each others’ children in one member’s home.
7-word bio: “Thirty year lawyer and provocative thought leader.”
