Solo Practice

Tech Use Among Lawyers Increasing

Posted on January 27, 2008
Competition and a desire to stay in sync with corporate clients has led many firms to embrace technology.

Disovery Mining Nominated for Legalese Legal Technology Innovation Award

Posted on January 27, 2008
Marketwire.com reports that San Fransisco-based company Discovery Mining has been named a finalist for the Legalese Legal Technology Innovation Award.

Today?s Technology to Build Your Business

Posted on January 27, 2008
A two-part post on SeattlePi.com discusses how to use today's technology to build your business.

Marketing Begins with Your ?Product? - PART THREE: Packaging Legal Services

Posted on January 26, 2008
In the first two parts of this series, we discussed identifying problems and providing solutions. The third part of this series focuses on packaging legal services. Packaging is all about how clients access the legal services you provide. Traditionally, a client would find your phone number in the yellow pages and call your office...

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Marketing Begins with Your ?Product? - PART TWO: Provide the Solution

Posted on January 24, 2008
In the first part of this series, we discussed identifying problems as a starting point for building a marketing plan. Part Two of this series focuses on using those problems to design and market tailor-made solutions for your clients. Too often, the public views lawyers as emergency surgeons, hired to fix an overwhelming problem after things [...

Social Networking Sites Boost Business

Posted on January 24, 2008
Networking has always been an important means of building and maintaining a legal practice. With online social networking sites, this is easier than ever before. The Canadian Bar Association reports that: “Social networking sites bring the kind of interaction that lawyers and other professionals enjoy in live business, industry, professional, civic, religious, charitable and [...

Syncing Software for the Mobile Lawyer

Posted on January 24, 2008
Laptops and wifi make it possible to work anywhere. There’s always the issue of syncing up your laptop files with the files on the office computer, though. One option is to put the files on an extranet. If you don’t want to go that route, there are several simple and inexpensive products [...

Marketing Begins with Your ?Product? - PART ONE: Identify a Problem

Posted on January 22, 2008
Ask most lawyes about marketing and they’ll talk about advertising, building client relationships, community outreach, word of mouth and other methods of promotion. But these are really just the final steps of the process. Any good marketing strategy should begin with defining your product–the unique legal services you offer to clients...

Virtual Firms Make House Calls

Posted on January 20, 2008
The overhead of maintaining a fully staffed office has always been a significant barrier to attorneys contemplating solo practice. In other fields, businesspeople have had great success with home offices, but home offices have not often been viewed as conducive to the practice of law...

Building an Extranet

Posted on January 20, 2008
Making a productive use of downtime has always been a challenge. Laptops, wireless internet and the Blackberry (to name a few) have improved the situation a bit, but if you’re unable to access important files while you’re away from the office, your hands are tied...

Information Overload

Posted on January 20, 2008
Not surprisingly, information overload is one of the biggest problems faced by a solo or small firm practitioner. From e-mails and phone calls to research and files, the sheer volume of information that passes across an attorney’s desk each day is astounding...

How Bryan Cave Uses Business Intelligence Tools to Provide Alternative Methods of Billing

Posted on January 10, 2008
Bryan Cave is a truly global law firm with 15 offices worldwide and a staff of over 800 lawyers.  At first glance, it would seem that such a large firm’s business practices would be irrelevant to solo and small firm practitioners.  After all, the small firm cannot even begin to compete with the financial resources [...

Using Google Apps for E-Mail and Scheduling

Posted on January 08, 2008
Even a small firm will have to address the issue of scheduling at some point. This becomes even more necessary when you’re collaborating with outside attorneys on a matter. While there are a number of program options for e-mail and scheduling management, Charles Smith at Law...

Value Pricing: Just Do It

Posted on January 06, 2008
There have been a few posts on this blog about value pricing and its place in an innovative law firm. Value pricing dispenses with billable hours and instead charges clients based on (surprise) the subjective value of the work performed. Apparently, the mere thought of moving from a billable hours system to a [...

Should I Start My Own Practice?

Posted on January 05, 2008
Many lawyers dream of starting their own practices, but the realities of launching a business can be intimidating.  While there are a number of excellent resources available concerning solo startups (including MyShingle.com), the Rainmaker has posted a suggested reading list that has proven to be very helpful in my own experience...

If You?re Thinking About Blogging?

Posted on January 05, 2008
In my last post, I mentioned that content is the most important feature of a website. Content is what drives traffic and content is what holds a reader’s attention long enough for them to consider retaining your services. The Greatest American Lawyer has added a couple of great posts on the topic recently [...

Draw Clients to Your Website

Posted on January 05, 2008
Law firms of all sizes have realized the importance of maintaining a web presence.  Luckily, creating a professional-looking site is more affordable than ever.  Do-it-yourself types can create a great site for virtually nothing.  But in the long run, the most important thing is traffic...

Solos and Small Firms Need PR Too

Posted on October 30, 2007
I noted in an earlier post, Tapping Into India’s Legal Market, that Paramjit Mahli would be a guest blogger on Susan Cartier Liebel’s Build A Solo Practice, LLC for a three-part series.  The second part of that series focuses on how solos and small firms can benefit from good public relations...

E-Discovery Offers Opportunities to Gain Corporate Clients

Posted on October 29, 2007
Corporate legal departments have often sought outside counsel for litigation support. With the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the growth of electronic discovery, corporations are seeking contract attorneys earlier than ever before. While corporations are trying to increase the size of their legal departments, a lack of candidates with the specific [...

Supreme Court of Kentucky?s First Webcast

Posted on October 25, 2007
I noted in an earlier post that the Supreme Court of Kentucky would begin live webcasts of oral arguments this week. I didn’t get a chance to watch the live webcast yesterday, but Kentucky Law Review reports that it was a success. (Read KLR’s post on SCOKY’s first live webcast here...

The Ultimate Digital Law Firm

Posted on October 24, 2007
Traverse Legal, based in Traverse City, Michigan, is one of the most innovative firms I’ve come across so far.  Enrico Schaefer, the firm’s founding attorney, uses alternative billing and technology to gain efficiencies that can be passed on to his clients...

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