According to a Wall Street Journal article and accompanying Law Blog post, the down economy is increasingly leading clients of large law firms to pressure those firms to trim their fees. As a result, says the WSJ, large firms are outsourcing more legal work to India.
As I noted back in August, independent US-based contract lawyers [...]

A contract lawyering practice is very conducive to working from home. When you work from home, you can arrange your office to suit your needs. You can also wear what you want.
The flexibility of a home office, combined with my continuing quest to get into better shape and the time limitations of a busy professional [...]

In this video, web guru Gary Vaynerchuk expresses so well what I’ve long felt about my own career:

Isn’t it time you made this happen for yourself?