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SmallLaw: Top Five BigSolo Mistakes: How to Destroy Your Fledgling Law Firm

By Ross Kodner

Originally published on August 3, 2009 in our free SmallLaw newsletter. The BigSolo trend continues to grow. More and more large firm emigrants and refugees have opted out of large firm practice (or have had that choice made for them). The "good old days" appear to have been little more than economic sleight-of-hand, akin to clever David Blaine-esque street magic. More and more large firm attorneys are hanging shingles, summoning their inner entrepreneur. Some will succeed. Many will not. With the top-down, bottom-up shock that running a business may bring to lawyers whose mission in life involved warping the space-time continuum to pump out 2,500 billable hours per year, opportunities for failure abound. While some SmallLaw readers have criticized my observations, my perspective stems from the crucible of in-the-trenches reality...continue to full post

Full post as published by TechnoLawyer Blog on August 10, 2009 (boomark / email).