I was going over my various blogs and I thought I would visit my first one – this one.  It has been a couple years since I started this blog to serve as my outlet while I moved from a law firm job, to taking the bar exam in another state, and, essentially starting my…

I am about eight months into starting a law firm.  I don’t know if I have “made it” yet but I can tell you that the absolute terror and nervousness is gone.  I almost feel like this is my real “career” now.  I have a long ways to go, but I got a lot…

I’m struggling a bit with my practice area focus.  No, not my legal practice area, my firm location area.
I live in a small town just off the fringes of the Twin Cities.  I’m closer to St. Paul than to Minneapolis but it is all relative.  I have gotten several clients out of most of…

For any of my readers who care – I am redisgning this blog.  Why?  Because business is a little slow and I didn’t like how it looked.
Warning:  designing and redesigning the way a blog looks has very little bearing on starting a law firm.
Don’t fall into the trap of making things look…

In an effort to post more on starting a law firm, I wanted to let my readers know that I was recently featured in a nice article on Minnesota Lawyer’s solo and small firm website:  Solo Contendre.
Reporter Dan Heilman contacted me several weeks a go to do an interview.  He was looking…

As reported by the ABA Journal and Lawyerist, an Iowa lawyer was suspended for 30 days for keeping a $2,500 minimum fee on a criminal law matter.
According to the article, the lawyer only completed 3.7 hours of work  – including 1 hour spent doing an accounting.  The case against the client was ultimately…

I wanted any readers out there who are either (1) contemplating or (2) starting a law firm that Minnesota Lawyers Mutual (MLM) now has a blog and roadmap for lawyers who are looking to go out on their own.
This helpful tidbit of information was reported by Andrea Hable at the Minnesota State Bar Association…