Solo Practice

Could You Be A Front for A Firm?

I'm getting ready for my upcoming conference, but couldn't resist posting about this article that describes the trend of minority owned firms partnering up with larger firms to help meet diversity requirements.  It's a trend that I mentioned in my book Solo by Choice, so I was interested to learn that the trend has since gained more traction.

Seems to me that this set up could work quite well for small minority or female owned firms.  They could serve as front-bidders on projects, then sub-contract the work out to larger firm partners.  It's a model very consistent with the lawyer-to-lawyer collaboration model that Jordan Furlong describes at Law21. In any event, since the issuance of my book, I've been researching this topic and will be providing more information in a couple of weeks when I upgrade MyShingle.  

Do you have any experience serving as a woman or minority owned partner to another firm or business?  Post your experience below.

Full post as published by My Shingle.com on April 15, 2009 (boomark / email).