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1297 ABA Journal Solos/Small Firms articles.

New Solos Get Cheap Rents and Good Deals, But Will Clients Come?

Three Florida lawyers hanging out their own shingle say the bad economy makes it a good time to start a law firm. Rents are cheap, and so is used office furniture, lawyer Maggie Jo Hilliard told the Jacksonville Financial News & Daily Record. Hilliard, a 2005 graduate of the Florida…

Dec 15, 2009 4:04 PM CST

Law Firm Abandons iPhone After Experts Warn of Security Issues

Warnings about potential security risks have spurred one mid-sized law firm to abandon its iPhones, to the disappointment of one of its lawyers who complained. Consultant Sharon Nelson wrote about the unnamed law firm in her blog Ride the Lightning. The disappointed lawyer sent word of the firm’s switch to…

Dec 9, 2009 4:15 PM CST

Law Firm Website Redesign Lesson: Review Photos as Well as Text

Even when a well-known legal consultant is handling a law firm website redesign, it’s important for partners to retain an oversight role, a small Texas law firm has learned the hard way. Stock photo illustrations of seeming crime victims published in connection with descriptions of Lindeman, Alvarado & Frye’s sex…

Dec 7, 2009 7:54 PM CST

Blagojevich Evidence Stolen in Law Firm Break-in

A lawyer for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has reported that evidence in the corruption case was stolen from his Chicago office early this morning. The Chicago Tribune reports that at least one computer containing undercover recordings from the case was taken in a 4 a.m. break-in at the South…

Dec 4, 2009 11:08 PM CST

Smaller Law Firms Struggle with Morale Issues in Bonus Decisions

The gossip mill at smaller law firms can lead to morale issues at bonus time. The Connecticut Law Tribune notes the problem. “With just a handful of employees, it’s hard to keep individual bonus totals a secret,” the story says. “That can leave a subset of employees who might be…

Dec 2, 2009 2:44 PM CST

Scalia in Lawyer Free Speech Case: Constitution Doesn’t Ban Stupid Laws

Justice Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. appeared to differ yesterday during oral arguments on whether a restriction on bankruptcy advice violates lawyers’ First Amendment rights. A small Minnesota law firm is challenging the 2005 law that prohibits debt relief agencies from advising clients to “incur more…

Dec 2, 2009 1:13 PM CST

Clean & Sober for 6 Years, Lawyer Starts New Solo Practice

Although he pleaded guilty in 1992 to misdemeanor cocaine use two years earlier, Terry Nolan didn’t realize he had a substance abuse problem. He stopped drinking, for good, in 1998, the Michigan defense attorney tells the Muskegon Chronicle. But, fueled with the funds brought in by his successful law practice,…

Nov 30, 2009 7:16 PM CST

ABA Launches Technology Marketplace Offering Member Discounts

The ABA has launched ABA TechEZ, an online directory of technology and services being offered at discounts for ABA members. So far, the directory includes about 25 software packages, ranging from billing programs to collaboration and legal research applications, according to a press release. The directory is meant to serve…

Nov 24, 2009 3:16 PM CST

Law Firm & Ex-Associate Litigate Badmouth Blog Battle in State & Federal Court

A war of words between Levinson Axelrod and ex-associate Edward Harrington Heyburn is now in litigation. The New Jersey-based personal injury law firm filed an order to show cause in state court in Middlesex County Superior Court last week, seeking a shutdown order concerning the website in which Heyburn criticizes…

Nov 10, 2009 8:54 PM CST

Green Achers

The lure of BigLaw and big cities may stir some. But for a certain solo breed, the small town is the place to be.

Nov 2, 2009 4:30 AM CST

So You Want to Go Solo? You Sure?

Here are the tasks you need to master to live the shingle life

Nov 2, 2009 4:20 AM CST

A Line or a Loan?

Credit lines can be lifelines for solos

Nov 2, 2009 1:40 AM CST

So You Want to Go Solo? You Sure?

As of 2005, some 62 percent of attorneys in private practice work as solo or small-firm practitioners, according to the most recent data avail­able from the American Bar Association. Those numbers likely have swelled and will continue to do so as law firms reorganize and re-evaluate their professional staffing needs.…

Oct 25, 2009 5:43 PM CDT

Ethics Complaint: Lawyer Lied About ‘Adult Gig’ Craigslist Ad for Secretary

An attorney discipline count has been filed against an Illinois immigration lawyer for allegedly lying about an ad for a legal secretary that he posted in the “Adult Gigs” section of Craigslist. Although the May 2009 job ad did not expressly list any sexual job duties, a follow-up letter sent…

Oct 22, 2009 11:47 PM CDT

DUI Lawyers Market Firm with Cars, Segways and 30 Websites

Lawyers at Finebloom & Haenel are attracting clients as they drive, ride and sleep. The Sarasota, Fla., traffic and DUI law firm now has six lawyers, 30 websites and 275 domain names, the Herald Tribune reports. Even as the lawyers sleep, they get five or six leads from their websites,…

Oct 22, 2009 2:51 PM CDT

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