Susan Cartier Liebel

HIghlights from a Twitter chat on optimizing a small firm practice.

Like marriage, partnering should be for the right reasons. Make sure you're making the right decision.

APP will offer practical solutions and expert insight on meeting the challenges of starting and optimizing a solo or small firm practice.

Columnist Susan Cartier Liebel discusses the importance of having a social media presence and why the inability to connect concrete point A to point B ROI should not deter you from putting in the effort.

If you are conducting business with people of another culture, it is important to take the time to learn their customs as a sign of respect.

Real freedom of time is the holy grail of solo practice. How can you work with your colleagues to find it?

Can you be "successful" practicing law this way? Columnist Susan Cartier Liebel offers her thoughts.

We're all alarmed on some level, but what do we do, if anything, as citizens? What can we do, if anything, as lawyers defending clients?

The first quarter of the new year is usually a good time to "Shake It Off" -- that is, shake off some of your old and debilitating habits, review, and renew.

Start investigating the consumer-facing startups that provide an initial solution to a consumer self-identified pain point.

You can create a great client experience from the moment you open your doors, and you should make it a priority for the life of your practice.

Innovative companies are uniting lawyers who want to provide legal services and the latent legal market of consumers who desperately need legal services.

What does the shrinking of the middle class mean for small-firm and solo lawyers?

Our newest columnist, Susan Cartier Liebel, explains the importance of language skills for solo and small-firm practitioners.

Would you use online lawyer speed-dating to attract new clients? Take our reader poll!

Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman of the New York Court of Appeals announced yesterday that a new bar admission hurdle would be foisted upon would-be lawyers in the state, in the form of a 50-hour pro bono requirement. What does it mean for you?

Ed. note: This is the latest installment of Size Matters, one of Above the Law’s new columns for small-firm lawyers. It is not easy staying abreast of all of the important issues affecting small firms, but I do it because my words impact our nation’s policy. Do you think it was a coincidence that less […]

While bonuses are burning up the comments here at Above the Law, there’s another discussion raging over at the ABA’s SoloSez Listserv — where solo and small firm lawyers from around the country share resources, practice tips and the occasional anecdote. It seems that a 3L at Arizona State’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law […]

Last week, I made the decision to jump right into the substantive portion of this column. Based on the queries and comments hitting my inbox, though, I thought I would take another shot at explaning my intentions behind this column, before returning to your regularly scheduled programming. The following email came in earlier this week […]

Ed. note: Welcome to the latest installment of “Notes from the Breadline,” a column by a laid-off lawyer in New York. Prior columns are collected here. You can reach Roxana St. Thomas by email (at [email protected]), follow her on Twitter, or find her on Facebook. Dear Lat, Thank you so much for the back-to-school care […]