I can't actually make really competent referrals to more than a very
small handful of lawyers.
Not exact matches
Others might be an immigration
lawyer who helps employers with foreign - worker issues, whose relationship is with key HR VPs, or a
small - business attorney who has productive referral relationships with a
handful of CPAs.
Well, almost nobody: «there's a
handful of lawyers who deal with this and a
handful of law professors who are thinking about it, it's a pretty
small club.»
Yes, worse than hugely increasing the number
of small firm solicitors would be to allow the decimation
of them by the proven and consistent predatory practices
of a
handful of giant corporations who, having gotten rid
of the multi-thousands
of lawyer competitors, would then have the public at their rapacious mercy.
But let us assume that the extremely modest per - will earnings
of small firm wills
lawyers across Ontario can be taken away from those
lawyers by MegaFirm headquartered in Los Angeles with a
handful of token Ontario
lawyers on staff, then what?
I've worked at a large firm with over 700 attorneys, a
small boutique firm with less than a
handful of associates, and now in solo practice as an entertainment
lawyer.
A 10 or 15
lawyer retail firm covering a
handful of personal service practice areas reconstituting as part
of a 300 +
lawyer national firm would have meant throwing out the old owner's manual and starting from scratch, moving from what was essentially a
small - business management system to a much more corporate model.
Then, along with a
handful of other such corporations, having driven the
small firm solicitors to extinction — the ones who deliver the most affordable, cost - effective legal services — they will then begin to forever charge far, far more for those same services than the
small firm
lawyers ever did.
It may sound obvious, but often times
lawyer marketing companies force attorneys into picking from only a
small handful of website designs because they would rather quickly replicate their previous website templates via «dragging and dropping» than taking the time to work with you on a personal level.
Only a
small handful of firms have found something
of a middle ground and are able to deliver large law firm results without a
lawyer headcount in the thousands (e.g. Bartlit Beck and Williams & Connolly).
It's been a long, long time coming, but I am finally ready to unveil one
of MyShingle's flagship features, The Bars, Reviewed 2009, a survey
of resources for solo and
small firm
lawyers offered by the 50 state bars, plus the ABA and a
handful of city bars.