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Checklist
If you read any post on this blog, start with this one. It links to most of the others… I’m a linear thinker. Yet another reason why I struggled in law school. If law school could have been reduced to flow charts, I would have broken records. In sitting down with a friend who’s starting…
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I Don’t Know What I’m Doing
As I said in a previous post, law school doesn’t teach you how to practice law. So how do you actually learn? The obvious answer is CLE, or Continuing Legal Education. Most bars require a certain number of CLE credit hours each year to renew your license. I find that CLEs are usually not helpful…
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Considering Law School? Read This First.
I often tell people that becoming a lawyer is like learning how to walk at least three times over. College does nothing to prepare you for law school. Law school does nothing to prepare you for the bar. And none of that prepares you for practice. In college you are trained to think a certain…
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How to Guarantee Your Practice Fails
I recently read an article in BusinessWeek about the problems facing large law firms and why these firms are imploding at an alarming rate (“Law Firms’ White-Shoes Blues,” Paul Barrett 4/18/12). After a conversation with a friend who was just laid off from her associate position at a small firm, I realized that the face…
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What Drives You?
The longer I survive in solo practice, the more often I’m asked to present to law students or lawyers interested in starting their own practices. Early on in my practice, I was one of five lawyers on a panel for a CLE class at my alma mater on “How to Start a Law Practice.” The…
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Starting a Small Law Firm
LexisNexis asked me to present a webinar on How to Start a Small Law Firm. I hope you enjoy!