Solos/Small Firms

Low Profile Can’t Stop Solo’s International Practice

Teresa Farah

Sep 30, 2010 7:42 PM CDT

5 Business Model Innovations Solos Need to Truly Compete with BigLaw

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?”

Sep 30, 2010 2:15 PM CDT

Now’s the Time for Solos to Reach for the Cloud

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?”

Sep 29, 2010 1:39 PM CDT

Solo’s Most Reliable Innovation Is Only a Click Away

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?”

Sep 28, 2010 2:15 PM CDT

2 Partners, 1 Associate & 2 Interpreters Get Time in Immigration Fraud Case

Two partners and an associate of a small California law firm were sentenced to federal prison terms Friday for helping immigrants win asylum in the United States based on false documents. Jagprit Singh Sekhon, 39, got nine years and his brother, Jagdip Singh Sekhon, 42, got five years, the Sacramento…

Sep 28, 2010 12:25 AM CDT

Solo Hungers for ‘Time Machine’ to Correct Missteps on Path to Law Practice

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?”

Sep 27, 2010 1:59 PM CDT

Ex-Quinn Litigator Leaves New Job at Greenberg Traurig to Go Solo

A little over six months ago, Samuel Shepherd was in the headlines as he left Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan to help establish a new San Francisco office for Greenberg Traurig. But now he says that was a bad idea, and is departing his new firm to go solo, reports…

Sep 14, 2010 6:29 PM CDT

Ex-BigLaw IP Partners Boomerang Back to Foley & Lardner—with Same Small-Firm Rate Structure

A little over a year ago, two intellectual property partners left Foley & Lardner, where one had been managing partner of the Silicon Valley office, to form their own patent boutique, citing a need to lower costs. But now Gerald Swiss and Lorna Tanner are boomeranging back—not only to BigLaw…

Sep 13, 2010 11:36 PM CDT

The Year’s Legal Rebels Are Riding Solo

Meet the Rebels profiled so far: James Branum: A Mennonite Minister Who Finds Calling in Defending Military Dissenters Carolyn Elefant: High-Energy Solo is Making Mark With High-Profile Energy Practice Stephanie Kimbro: The Solo Who Wrote the Book on Virtual Law Practice Watch-and-Learn Videos: Kevin Houchin: An F-Word Manifesto; 4 F-Words…

Sep 10, 2010 10:35 PM CDT

New ‘Lower Cost’ Alternative Law Firm Adds 5 More Seyfarth Attorneys

Last week, a start-up employment boutique in the Chicago suburbs had an attorney roster of exactly three—its name partners, all of whom formerly practiced for many years at Seyfarth Shaw. But by the start of business this week, the fledgling firm more than doubled in size, with the addition of…

Sep 9, 2010 1:26 AM CDT

Adult Content Producers File Mass Tort Against Alleged Downloaders

Another lawyer has waded into the mass tort fray over alleged illegal downloading of copyrighted material. Attorney John Steele of Chicago is representing three adult content producers in separate federal court claims against hundreds of unidentified “John Doe” individuals accused of using BitTorrent to pirate material created by the plaintiffs,…

Sep 7, 2010 5:22 PM CDT

Lunch Conversation Led Two Lawyers to Form Their Own Firm

A lunch conversation at a trial lawyers conference in 2008 led two female attorneys to form their own firm. Leslie McPadden makes a point of sitting with people she doesn’t know at such events, and she struck up a conversation with Rosa Rebimbas, recounts the Connecticut Law Tribune. It turned…

Sep 7, 2010 4:38 PM CDT

Why New Lawyers Should Consider Rural Practice

New lawyers having trouble with their job search may want to consider practice in rural America, where they are more likely to see the inside of a courtroom and less likely to be saddled with a big mortgage payment. Eric Cooperstein, a Minneapolis legal ethics lawyer, began thinking about those…

Sep 7, 2010 4:15 PM CDT

3 Seyfarth Partners Form New Suburban Firm to Offer ‘Lower Cost’ Alternative

In the latest example of a snowballing trend among BigLaw attorneys, three partners at Seyfarth Shaw have left the well-known Chicago-based firm to establish a smaller suburban firm that will, they say, offer clients quality corporate legal services for less. “We are establishing this suburban-based firm in order to significantly…

Sep 1, 2010 10:03 PM CDT

Study Finds Declining Lawyer Revenues, Gender Pay Gap at Small and Midsize Firms

Revenue per lawyer at small and midsize firms has dropped two years in a row, according to a new survey. In 2008, revenue per lawyer dropped by an average of almost 5 percent, and in 2009 it dropped by less than 1 percent, according to the survey by ALM Legal…

Sep 1, 2010 4:00 PM CDT

Low Profile Can’t Stop Solo’s International Practice

5 Business Model Innovations Solos Need to Truly Compete with BigLaw

Now’s the Time for Solos to Reach for the Cloud

Solo’s Most Reliable Innovation Is Only a Click Away

2 Partners, 1 Associate & 2 Interpreters Get Time in Immigration Fraud Case

Solo Hungers for ‘Time Machine’ to Correct Missteps on Path to Law Practice

Ex-Quinn Litigator Leaves New Job at Greenberg Traurig to Go Solo

Ex-BigLaw IP Partners Boomerang Back to Foley & Lardner—with Same Small-Firm Rate Structure

The Year’s Legal Rebels Are Riding Solo

New ‘Lower Cost’ Alternative Law Firm Adds 5 More Seyfarth Attorneys

Adult Content Producers File Mass Tort Against Alleged Downloaders

Lunch Conversation Led Two Lawyers to Form Their Own Firm

Why New Lawyers Should Consider Rural Practice

3 Seyfarth Partners Form New Suburban Firm to Offer ‘Lower Cost’ Alternative

Study Finds Declining Lawyer Revenues, Gender Pay Gap at Small and Midsize Firms

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