Chuck Newton is a Texas lawyer who writes Chuck Newton Rides the Third Wave, one of my favorite blogs about solo practice. Chuck’s practice is inspired by The Third Wave, a 1980 book by futurist Alvin Toffler. As Chuck explains,

Toffler’s book described three different types of societies, which he referred to as “waves”. [...]

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 [...]

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?

On Monday, the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility released Formal Op. 08-451, entitled Lawyer’s Obligations When Outsourcing Legal and Nonlegal Support Services. Although press coverage of the opinion has focused on its impact on the overseas legal outsourcing industry and the reaction here in the United States from contract lawyers [...]