Solo Practitioners
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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: How To Leave A Law Firm
When both work and home are stressful, our jobs need to be fulfilling. -
Small Law Firms
Should Law Firm Owners Speak Their Truth?
When it comes to law firms, ownership cuts two ways when it comes to free expression. - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls. -
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An Interview With Solo Practitioner Erin C. Callahan
She shares incredible insight into what it is like to run your own practice and what it takes to do it successfully.
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Closing A Deal: A Lonely Time For The Solo Practitioner
As a solo practitioner, we close, as we begin: Alone. -
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Changing Your Mindset: Tips To Improve Your Mental Health And Increase Happiness
Give yourself and others grace. We’re not going to win every case, and we’re going to make mistakes in parenting. -
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An Interview With Immigration Attorney Miriam Lacroix
She tells us about the realities of practicing immigration law under the current administration. -
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Why Solo Practitioners And Small Firms Should Pay More To Their Student Law Clerks
Just because you can pay a small wage to a law student, does it mean that you should? -
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Partnering Up Is Better Than Practicing Solo
Perhaps most importantly, having a partner allows each lawyer to share the burdens of running a practice. - Sponsored
How Transactional Lawyers Can Better Serve (And Maintain) Their Clients
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Back To School For Legal Interns And Small Firms
As September unfolds, and courts' activity increases from the summer months, all students should take advantage of the opportunities that small and solo firms provide. -
Small Law Firms
The Client Is Not Always Right
Attorneys should feel empowered to confront their clients when their clients favor strategies that the attorney thinks are flawed. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.01.19
* In case you missed it, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he’d be willing to entertain a Democratic president’s Supreme Court nominee in 2021 because it would be “politically unsustainable” to hold open a vacancy for so long — but that doesn’t mean there’d be a confirmation. [POLITICO]
* It’s sick that we need a federal court order to get this done, but… conditions for migrant children must be improved immediately at Border Patrol facilities in Texas because right now, they “could be compared to torture facilities.” [New York Times]
* A judge has permanently enjoined the Trump administration from diverting $2.5 million in military funds to construct a wall on the southern border. We imagine there will be some Twitter rant about “Obama judges” coming soon. [The Hill]
* October Term 2018 was pretty strange and we saw SCOTUS justices making strange bedfellows in their opinions, with Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh joining the high court’s liberals in the majority for one of the most FUCT-up cases. [NBC News]
* Hoping to open your own firm or join a small law firm after graduation from law school? If that’s the case, then you might be interested to know that average compensation in this area of the legal profession is down, with women earning incomes 36 percent lower than their male counterparts. [Law.com]
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Small Law Firms
My Son’s Middle School Graduation: Marking Personal, Educational, And Career Accomplishments For Mother And Child
When your child is essential to your successes as a mother and as a solo practitioner. -
Small Law Firms
How To Tell If Your Adversary Is Full Of... Bad Arguments
Lawyers have to think creatively to string together the best points possible -- not the garbage.
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How Transactional Lawyers Can Better Serve (And Maintain) Their Clients
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AI’s Impact On Law Firms Of Every Size
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
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Why Some Good Lawyers Make 'Bad' Arguments
Sometimes it pays to distract your adversaries, and this is why some attorneys make bad arguments. -
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More Dirty Tactics Lawyers Should Rarely Use
Lawyering is an adversarial profession, but it doesn't need to be so adversarial that attorneys resort to using dirty tactics to win. -
Small Law Firms
Dirty Tactics Lawyers Should Rarely Use
Attorneys should avoid employing underhanded strategies. -
Small Law Firms
Forging The Path That Works For You
We get so caught up in following the path we think we should be taking that we sometimes forget to consider the path we want to take. -
Small Law Firms
Service Of Process Rules Are Stuck In The Stone Age
Service of process rules are vestiges of the past, and oftentimes do not account for how many people do business in the present. -
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