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March Teleseminar: Freelance Freedom (2009): How to Get Started as a Contract Lawyer

March 3rd, 2009 · No Comments


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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?
How much should you charge, and how can you make sure you get [...]

Tags: Contract Lawyering · Learn from LRWP · Practice Management

Free Publicity e-book from PR 101 for Lawyers Presenter Joan Stewart

January 1st, 2009 · No Comments


Joan Stewart (a/k/a The Publicity Hound) is my personal PR guru. I subscribe to her free weekly ezine, and have gotten tons of great advice from it. As a result of applying the techniques that Joan teaches about, I have had a lot of publicity success for my various businesses (including getting my pet products [...]

Tags: Free Resources · Practice Management

ABA Formal Op. 08-451 Good News for US-based Independent Contract Lawyers and Hiring Attorneys

August 28th, 2008 · 11 Comments


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 [...]

Tags: Contract Lawyering · Practice Management

Niche-spiration

June 14th, 2007 · No Comments


If you want to run a successful legal research and writing practice, you need to have an entrepreneurial spirit. I have found that reading blogs about entrepreneurship helps to foster that spirit in me.
Two entrepreneur-focused blogs I really like are written by Dmitry Davydov. My favorite posts on NicheGeek.com contain practical information about the entrepreneurial [...]

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