Avvo is a free online directory of lawyers that the public can use to search by state and practice area. You may be asking yourself, isn’t that basically the business White Pages, or the bar association’s Find-A-Lawyer directory, or Martindale-Hubbell revisited? Pretty much. A lawyer’s Avvo profile is essentially an online résumé or portfolio that […]
Longtime readers of the Colorado Bar Association’s C-Brief, its weekly eNewsletter, know each week there is a tip from Law Practice Management Director Reba Nance. Those tips are moving beyond the newsletter and now have a permanent home within the Practice Management section of CBA’s website. We’ll share some of the best tips each week […]
In case you missed solo attorney Dan Sweetser’s CBA-CLE presentation, “Secrets to Solo/Small Firm Success: Getting Clients, Keeping Them, and Unique Ethical Issues,” this video offers a short overview of what attorney shingle-hangers should be aware of, including accounting information, marketing, ethical issues, and professionalism, courtesy of the CBA’s running video series Five-Minute Mentor.
It’s always five o’clock somewhere, but now you can celebrate that happiest post-work hour (two hours, in fact) with fellow solo and small firm attorneys in Westminster. North Metro solo and small firm attorneys can network and wet their whistles at the DoubleTree Hotel Denver – North, located at 8773 Yates Drive in Westminster, on […]
It would appear the holiday season is upon us: Denver for the moment resembles an oversized snow globe. It’s officially December. And, I may or may not have listened to some holiday tunes, which I heard have been cranking on one local radio station since the end of Halloween, to perk up my evening commute. […]
Ahem . . . . It has come to my attention that some of you may be a little too eager to run through all Matt Willson’s videos on Vimeo and then say, “OK guys . . . where’s the rest of it?” “I want it now!” Patience, grasshopper, this is not the Pitbull and […]
This is a response to the comment last week by Jason about Bluehost, the WordPress recommended hosting site. His comment, to Want a Website for $200 or Less? Follow Solo in Colo’s WordPress Website Project, was: Great project. When you get to your “hosting” section, could you address the copyright protection of content? Specifically, below is […]
On Nov. 19, the Denver Bar Association held its annual Bench/Bar Retreat on the “Civil Access Pilot Project in the District Courts: Limits on Discovery in Business Cases.” The Bench/Bar Retreat is an event at which judges and litigators of all stripes get together on a Saturday morning in an informal setting and discuss issues […]
Matt and I gave a video overview of the “big picture” of the WordPress Website Project last week, so I will be supplying the written running commentary, including the “best practices” for writing a blog. First off, I want to address a couple concerns I came across when I posted questions to folks on the […]
As a solo or small firm practitioner, you’re probably your own assistant, which means you have filing duties, too. A new file retention rule (CRCP 1.16A) was approved by the Colorado Supreme Court in February. You can learn about the new rule, your general duties at termination of the attorney-client relationship, the need to have […]