Carolyn Elefant
Carolyn Elefant has been blogging about solo and small firm practice at MyShingle.com since 2002 and operated her firm, the Law Offices of Carolyn Elefant PLLC, even longer than that. She's also authored a bunch of books on topics like starting a law practice, social media, and 21st century lawyer representation agreements (affiliate links). If you're really that interested in learning more about Carolyn, just Google her. The Internet never lies, right? You can contact Carolyn by email at elefant@myshingle.com or follow her on Twitter at @carolynelefant.
Posts by Carolyn Elefant
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Small Law Firms
Help Clients And Stay Sane — With Questions
In most instances, you can control your schedule by developing policies and procedures that manage client expectations and address basic questions. -
Small Law Firms
Why Lawyers Should Offer CLE On Pornhub And Not Legal Providers
By entering an unusual market with no other competitors, you can really stand out. - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
Small Law Firms
10 Key Mindset Shifts You Must Make When Starting A Law Firm
Even if you don’t have an entrepreneurial bone in your body, you can start and run your own law firm if you can train yourself to make these 10 key mindset shifts.
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Small Law Firms
11 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid To Start Your Own Law Firm
As a lawyer, you may have sound reasons for not starting a law firm. Don't let fear be one of them. -
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Should You Install An Installment Payment Plan For Clients?
Installment payment plans could prove beneficial to lawyers by providing another payment option for customers to make fees more manageable. -
Small Law Firms
Do You Want to Share Your Value With Biglaw Firms That Don’t Share Your Values?
Why spend your time fighting what Biglaw does when you can take that talent and back the companies and the causes doing work that matters to you? -
Small Law Firms
Everything That You Need To Know About Succeeding As An Associate, You Can Learn From Solo Practice
Once you begin to view solos not as loser-lawyers who couldn’t cut it in Biglaw practice but as a blend of independent lawyer, team manager, and entrepreneur, you’ll appreciate how solos’ secrets of success can help you too. -
Small Law Firms
Law Firm Ownership And Diversity In The Legal Profession
Why don’t we celebrate minority-owned small law firms as another pathway to parity within the legal profession as much as we do diversity in Biglaw? - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get… -
Small Law Firms
Biglaw Is Designed By Men, For Men… So Why Not Start Your Own Firm?
Changing Biglaw just isn’t a big enough vision. When we focus myopically on reforming Biglaw, we miss out. -
Small Law Firms
If You Must Hire An Unpaid Intern, Here’s A Contract For That
If you do decide to hire an unpaid intern, how can you prove whether you’ve complied with the DOL rule? Guess what – there’s a contract for that. -
Small Law Firms
New Retainer Clause Alert – Payment Apps + Engagement Agreement = Quick Cash For Lawyers
Add these clauses to your retainer agreement ASAP. -
Small Law Firms
Where You Need To Be Remote
What difference does a state’s suitability for remote work mean for law firms? -
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6 Hard Don'ts For Retainer Agreements
These are terms that you don’t want to ever include in a retainer agreement.
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get…
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so…
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
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Small Law Firms
Make Money With This Free Clause Of The Day
The Legal ClauseIt launch is still 10 days away, but in the meantime, if you want a sneak peek, register for the Clause A Day offer. -
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ABA Opinion On Virtual Offices: Is It Time For The ABA To Step Aside?
A year into the pandemic, the ABA opinion attempts to make virtual practice seem like a big scary monster. It's not.... -
Small Law Firms
Welcome To The Law Firm 'Clause It' – Launching Next Week!
Getting this product into the hands of attorneys will make their lives easier and enable them to protect themselves and their business. -
Small Law Firms
Post Pandemic Practice Profiles
A year ago this week, the pandemic took the nation by storm. Let's check in and see how some law firms are doing. -
Small Law Firms
Surrender To The System To Save Your Sanity
When you give yourself over to a system, you also free yourself from the mental energy that comes with making decisions. -
Small Law Firms
To Advance Diversity In Law Firms, Stop Bemoaning And Start Owning
Diversity may be lacking in Biglaw. But that doesn’t mean it’s lacking in other parts of the legal profession. -
Small Law Firms
The Remote Versus Physical Office Debate Revisited, Post-Pandemic
Has the pandemic caused you to rethink your plans for your law firm and if so how?