Solo and
small law practices often run on very thin margins so benefit from law practice management software even more than large firms do.
Not exact matches
But we thought we'd take a little bit of a break from that and talk more about its purpose and why we built it, which is that in
law practice and
small firm
law practice if you are a creative business person or an innovator or tech oriented or trying to think up ways to better serve clients that haven't been tried before, we've found that that can be really isolating and that there can
often be a lot of active resistance from other lawyers, from bar associations, from regulators, and that it can just be a really strange experience to be someone trying to make your business better, make the world better, and to feel alone or to feel like people are actively trying to stop you from doing that.
Often,
small to medium
law firms contain lawyers with highly specialised professional experience in dealing with particular legal issues, which can only be achieved through years of
practice servicing a community.
While
smaller firms and solo practitioners may not have the extensive resources or global footprint as bigger
law firms may have, lawyers at
smaller firms or with solo
practices are
often more resourceful in identifying ways to handle matters which yield the same outcome.
The specialty may not be an area of
law — lawyers
practicing in
smaller communities and litigators
often deal with a variety of legal questions.
There's so much potential in so many
small firms and it's
often the lawyer themselves that are holding themselves back and it's frustrating because you can see the potential and they just need to get going and it's like come on, move forward and Joe's an interesting case study because he is someone who thinks innovatively about
law practice.
Lawyers in
small law firms are
often generalists and engage in challenging, varied work across a broad spectrum of
practice areas.
These
smaller practices often hone in on very particular areas of
law — something that can be very beneficial if you have a highly specialized matter.
Small law firms can and
often do have billing and
practice management systems that generate large amounts of data (probably not as much data as BigLaw would generate of course) and more likely than not coded in a way that does in fact
Small law firms
often find it difficult running their
practice efficiently.
Intellectual Property is
often considered the purview of specialized boutique
law firms, however, aspects of this
practice area can readily be incorporated into solo and
small firm
practice.
While larger
law firms may hire administrative personnel to assist in day - to - day business operations, solo attorneys are
often chief cooks and bottle washers; and, even at
small firms, managing partners are forced to both
practice and manage the
practice.