Solos/Small Firms

Want More Business? Here’s a How-To List

Does your daughter’s kindergarten teacher know you’re a lawyer? Do you send out press releases to the local weekly newspaper? Does the client for whom you just handled a real estate closing know you do wills, too? If not, you’re missing out on significant opportunities to market your law practice.…

Oct 3, 2007 10:30 PM CDT

50 Ways to Market Your Practice

Tip-top tips from successful solos and small-firm practitioners

Oct 1, 2007 6:12 PM CDT

Study: More Men Go Into Solo Practice

It might seem counterintuitive. But a massive 10-year study found that men going into solo practice far outnumber the women who do so. Although more women associates and partners leave law firms than men, it isn’t to go into solo practice. About two-thirds of the lawyers who launch their own…

Sep 18, 2007 8:55 PM CDT

Virtual Offices in Real Space

Many solos opt for companies that offer all the trimmings

Aug 1, 2007 8:22 AM CDT

Major Jacksonville PI Firm is Splitting Up

Two longtime law partners in Jacksonville, Fla., have agreed to an amicable split, saying that their plaintiff personal injury firm had grown so large they were essentially officing together rather than practicing together. Woody Wilner and Robert Spohrer now plan to dissolve the firm they formed in 1991 and go…

Jul 26, 2007 12:40 AM CDT

Solo’s Suits ‘Vexatious,’ Judge Says

A Manhattan solo practitioner says an order barring her from filing new lawsuits on her own behalf is part of a judicial conspiracy against her. Eleanor Capogrosso will have to get advance permission if she wants to file any more suits, after filing 16 of them on her own behalf,…

Jul 19, 2007 3:58 PM CDT

Her Homework: Law Practice

After a busy day in the classroom, this teacher gets her solo practice going

Jul 1, 2007 11:31 PM CDT

An Uncommon Blend

It’s a common conundrum for many small, minority-owned law firms looking to crack the big leagues: Fortune 500 corporations want to send them work, but sometimes the work requires more resources than the firm can offer.

Jul 1, 2007 7:50 PM CDT

Lawyer, 82, Oldest Ontario Bar Admittee

An 82-year-old Atlanta lawyer apparently has become the oldest member of the profession ever to be “called to the bar” to practice law in Ontario, Canada. Although three other lawyers in their seventies previously hung out shingles as fledgling legal eagles, it appears that Gerald van Buskirk clearly holds the…

Jun 26, 2007 12:03 AM CDT

Saying ‘Good Buy’ to Office Rentals

Owning their office buildings gives solos flexibility and investment bucks

Jun 5, 2007 8:59 AM CDT

The Write Way to Start a Firm

Put down your goals when you draw up a business plan

May 1, 2007 11:21 AM CDT

Please Deposit Your Two Cents

Many solos are happy to offer colleagues some advice–for free

Apr 2, 2007 6:20 AM CDT

Where There’s a Will ...

A lightbulb went on above James Haroutunian’s head after watching countless women buy jewelry from his wife via the home-based sales parties she organized.

Apr 2, 2007 6:02 AM CDT

The Secrets of Million-Dollar Solos

Solo practitioners are a unique breed. It takes guts to strike out on your own and carry the burden of your success on your shoulders alone. Thousands of solos across the country meet that challenge every year and make a comfortable living while ably serving their clients. Only a few,…

Apr 1, 2007 6:05 PM CDT

Living and Learning Liability Lessons

How a lawyer with an M.B.A. caught a break to keep from going broke

Mar 29, 2007 7:39 AM CDT