As I mentioned in my last post, last week I participated on the alternative legal careers panel at Getting Back in the Game: How to Restart Your Career in a Down Economy, a day-long seminar sponsored by the New York City Bar and Vault.com. On Friday, David Lat posted his report on the panel over [...]

Yesterday, I participated on the alternative legal careers panel at Getting Back in the Game: How to Restart Your Career in a Down Economy, a day-long seminar sponsored by the New York City Bar and Vault.com. So I was understandably eager to see how the press covered the event.
The first article I had a chance [...]

A September 2001 article from Legal Consulting firm Altman Weil, Inc., entitled Fiscal Management of a Law Firm, strongly supports the use of contract lawyers to increase a firm’s profit margin.
The article discusses three key fiscal performance measures for all businesses (including law firms)—cash flow, revenues or collected fee receipts and profit margin—and identifies building [...]

On Tuesday, June 16, I’ll be speaking on an alternative legal careers panel as part of Getting Back in the Game: How to Restart Your Career in a Down Economy, a day-long seminar sponsored by the New York City Bar and Vault.com. The panel runs from 1:45-3:00 p.m.
Here’s the full program agenda:
9:45 AM – Welcome [...]

Last week, the National Law Journal reported that a California plaintiff’s lawyer has filed a class action suit against Chadbourne & Parke, alleging that the firm engages in a pattern and practice of billing its clients based on hourly rates charged by online legal research providers, even though the firm actually pays a flat rate [...]

Often, articles in the mainstream legal media about contract lawyers focus on the large law firms that, through staffing agencies, hire armies of attorneys (either foreign or domestic) to do document review work. So it’s refreshing that Downturn May Have an Upside for Contract Attorneys, an article in today’s National Law Journal, discusses the world [...]

AttorneysInTransition.com is a new website from Law Bulletin Publishing Co. that focuses (not surprisingly) on issues of concern to lawyers whose careers are in a state of flux.
While you’re there, check out my guest post, The Road Less Traveled: Working as a Contract Lawyer.
Also, make sure you read this post for more details about a [...]

From April 2-4, I had the pleasure of attending ABA Techshow in Chicago. The much-anticipated keynote speaker was Richard Susskind, author of The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services.
Susskind’s presentation expanded on his central thesis, which is that, in the next ten years or so, advances in technology will change, in fundamental [...]

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Want to get started as a contract lawyer, but don’t know where to start? In this teleseminar, nationally-recognized contract lawyering expert Lisa Solomon answers these important questions:

What is the most powerful way to market your services as a contract lawyer?
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Yes, we flocked. That would be Lawyerbird Kimberly Alderman and me. Our own contract lawyer mini-convention.
I was working late last night when Kimberly (a/k/a @nomadtoes) tweeted that she would be driving up to to New York in the morning. Since I’m an unabashed fangirl, I immediately sent off a DM (direct message, for the uninitiated) [...]