Back by Popular Demand! 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? How much should you charge, and how can you make [...]

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 [...]

Ever since I met her, I have admired contract lawyer Kimberly Alderman: she combines a passion for legal research and writing with an adventurous spirit that is well-served by the flexibility of a contract lawyering career. But when I read her guest post today at Susan Cartier Liebel’s Build a Solo Practice, I was blown [...]

On January 14, Judge Alvin W. Thompson of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut awarded $120 million in attorneys’ fees and $3.3 million in costs in Carlson v. Xerox as part of one of the largest securities fraud settlements in history. The January 14 decision is of interest because it addresses [...]

Just as the word “lawyer” has, for many, come to be synonymous with BigLaw associates collecting huge paychecks in exchange for 2300+ annual billables, for many the term “contract lawyer” refers to an attorney who, unable to obtain a permanent job doing “real” legal work, sits in front of a computer screen day after day [...]

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”. Each [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]