Strategy
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Should You Leave Big Law to Go Solo? Reading the Signs Before You Jump
There is a specific kind of dread that arrives on Sunday night. Not the ordinary reluctance everyone feels about Monday, but the heavier version, the one that comes with a glass of wine and the dawning sense that you are spending the best hours of your life on work that does not mean much to…
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The Law Firm Startup Kit: What You Need Before Your First Client
Most lawyers building a law firm spend their first month on the wrong things. They design a logo. They agonize over a website color. They buy a domain, then a second domain, then a third one in case the first two were mistakes. But what they actually need to do in those early weeks is…
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Client Screening for Attorneys; Or, How to Spot a Bad Client Before You Sign One
Every attorney has one. The client you knew, somewhere around the second phone call, you should have turned away. You took the matter anyway, and you spent the next several months regretting it: the emails at midnight, the invoices that went unpaid, the nagging worry that this was the one who would file a bar…
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What a Solo Practice Should Outsource First (and What to Never Hand Off)
Every solo attorney eventually arrives at the same advice, usually around the time the work outpaces the hours. Stop doing everything yourself. Delegate. Buy back your time. You cannot grow a firm while you remain the bottleneck for every task inside it. The advice, while correct, is incomplete because the moment you’ve decided to delegate,…