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Date: April 5th, 2016 6:57 PM Author: talented slippery parlour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209030) |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:01 PM Author: Multi-colored tanning salon Join your local bar assocs' small firm groups and go to meetups and stuff. Solos and small firm lawyers like to refer to other solos and small firm lawyers.
Build a decent website. Build up your Avvo profile and start answering questions on their forum. I don't do that anymore, but it helped me get clients when I first went solo. |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:02 PM Author: talented slippery parlour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209072) |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:03 PM Author: Multi-colored tanning salon Shit, I'm a going solo advice masterman. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209083) |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:08 PM Author: talented slippery parlour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209119) |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:39 PM Author: Multi-colored tanning salon I use Clio for practice management software. It's pretty good and reasonably priced.
I built a website using WordPress.
Prof liability insurance is going to be state/practice specific, so I don't really have good advice there.
If you're a PLLC or equivalent the taxes are relatively simple. I didn't have a bookkeeper my first year, but you could ask around among other solos in your area for recommendations (someone who understands law firm accounting, trust accounts, etc.).
I work from home and use a virtual office, and I would recommend that at least to start, until you have a better idea of whether you really need/want dedicated everyday office space.
Get a Fujitsu ScanSnap.
At this point, I don't really chase down new clients, but I would recommend not ignoring clients/matters that you might think are too small. My biggest client (nearly half my billings) came from a piddly little $250 matter. I just happened to catch them on the way up. |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 11:11 PM Author: Soggy nursing home ape Describe the work you do for your biggest client (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30210924) |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:10 PM Author: hairraiser plaza "Build up your Avvo profile"
That company seems shady as fuck, and I've literally never heard a single good thing about them. |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:15 PM Author: talented slippery parlour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209158) |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:29 PM Author: buff people who are hurt garrison What? I've heard tons of solos say they've gotten a lot of clients off it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209302) |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:45 PM Author: hairraiser plaza Maybe. I don't have any personal experience with it.
I've heard they operate like the BBB. "Pay us and we'll help get that score up." |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:51 PM Author: Multi-colored tanning salon As far as I can tell, it doesn't work that way at all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209432) |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:41 PM Author: Multi-colored tanning salon I get a lot of inquiries from Avvo. They are a bit shady when it comes to SEO, but that's what makes them so effective as a marketing tool. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209381) |
Date: April 5th, 2016 6:58 PM Author: yapping stimulating boistinker tranny work is pretty broad. What area? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209041) |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:01 PM Author: talented slippery parlour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209066) |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:26 PM Author: swashbuckling point almost made partner = counsel, not stealthed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209264) |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:28 PM Author: talented slippery parlour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209290) |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:28 PM Author: yapping stimulating boistinker start taking some title company owners out to lunch, see if any of them need your services. Title companies and accountants get all sorts of real estate legal issues (more than just closings) brought to them, so they are good sources. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209286) |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:02 PM Author: talented slippery parlour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209080) |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:08 PM Author: razzle genital piercing goal in life I would stay in your niche (or niche down even further) and target transactions that are too small for big law firms (billables too high) but significant enough to make some money. You basically want to raid any transactions that your ordinary small and mid sized firms take, but you're offering "biglaw" expertise and experience for the same rate.
Also if you're on decent terms with your practice group, assuming you're competent and not let go for ability, and they're not starving for work themselves, perhaps you can get some referrals that they would turn down?
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:11 PM Author: hairraiser plaza "but you're offering "biglaw" expertise and experience for the same rate."
Outside of criminal and PI work, is there *any* small firm that doesn't advertise itself as "big firm quality, small firm prices," or some variant of that? |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:15 PM Author: razzle genital piercing goal in life Well OP has actual biglaw experience, so that sets above a good number of small firm lawyers who don't. Regardless, one person only needs a handful of clients, so who cares if the pitch is similar? Just need to pick off a few to get rolling.
Can even price cheaper a bit than those firms at first until a base is built, then raise prices with long-term steady (and happy) clients.
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:46 PM Author: hairraiser plaza I'm not saying it won't work for him. It just might. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209411) |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:17 PM Author: talented slippery parlour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209176) |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:21 PM Author: razzle genital piercing goal in life That's precisely what I'm suggesting--targeting a notch below biglaw level clients, either deals your firms turn away or the types that usually hire local small firm to do.
Presumably if you're well trained, you're going to overdeliver and spot all kinds of things their old counsel never did and you'll be off and rolling. A lot of these firms practically commit malpractice on a daily basis and their semi but not quite sophisticated clients don't know the difference. |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:31 PM Author: buff people who are hurt garrison Relevant to my interests as a TRANNY. Just try to get some incorporation/volume shit to make a little $$ while you try to land an institutional client that will give you a solid $5k a month in billable work or some shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209316) |
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Date: April 5th, 2016 7:42 PM Author: Up-to-no-good bateful idiot abode Slowly build up some experience in some kind of lit. I hear there's a shit load of work out there for litfags than trannies in a solo-environment. (Even if it's just unlawful detainer shit to keep you busy) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186606&forum_id=2#30209389) |