Solo Stories
Getting Passionate About the Practice of Law
Saturday, June 7th, 2008The Inspired Solo is on a brief time-out while we plan and get ready to launch the new and improved site. Don’t forget to help us out by taking our survey, which makes you eligible to win an iPod nano! Posting will be light until the unveiling, but this one just demanded to be posted [...]
“Auntrepreneur” Melanie Notkin Offers 20 Lessons Learned for New Solos
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Melanie Notkin, a new Twitter pal, is right in the midst of her launch of Savvy Auntie, her new web-based business. She’s been blogging about this experience, and now, she offers “20 Tips for the New Entrepreneur.” They’re right up the TIS alley — she’s subtitled them “Secret Weapons” to help business owners “Stay Motivated, [...]
Why Shinyung Oh Is
TIS’s New Hero of the Month
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
(Pardon the unusual use of profanity in this post, if it bothers you. I can only offer this from my college chaplain, who’d just called “bullshit” on some machination by college administrators: “Sometimes, no other word will do.”)
You have to have read this by now.
If you haven’t, here’s the Twitter (less than 140 characters) [...]
More Time Than Money? I Know Just What You Mean (From BIAB.com)
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008Note from Sheryl: This is the last of the double-posts, until next Tuesday. But this one explains a bit more about my background with blogs, and I think it also gives you a better idea of what Cheap & Brilliant Blawgging is really “about” — so I decided to post it here, too. Tomorrow we’ll [...]
Inspired Solo: Stephanie Kimbro - The Virtual Law office
Monday, March 17th, 2008My completely virtual law office went live about two and half years ago.
To briefly describe my practice, the technology is a web-based, software as a service (SaaS) application powered by Virtual Law Office Technology, LLC (VLOTech). I access my virtual law office anywhere I have a secure Internet connection.
My clients register online and create their [...]
Naomi Fujimoto:
Helping Future Lawyers
Monday, February 11th, 2008
I’ve been working feverishly on a new website, which I’ll introduce when it’s ready to go live. The date for its unveiling is heavily dependent on some factors outside my control, which leave me with not much of a clue about when it will actually be ready for polite company. I can tell you that [...]
Solo Stories: Practical Lawyer Ditches the Underground, Going Solo Anyway
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007In what I hope will be a sign of things to come (read: more people-going-solo-stories, please!), Practical Lawyering recounts the trials and tribulations of one Practical Lawyer, whose story reminds me a lot of my own. Government lawyer, planning to go solo with a home office … although this post tells us PL reconsidered on [...]
Solo Stories: From the Banks of the Waterway
Sunday, July 8th, 2007The cryptic title refers to my new office. Well - “new” is probably not the right word, at all.
Let me explain: Last year, after my elderly mother fell and broke her hip, it became quickly apparent that her days of independent living were over. Someone was going to have to move in with her, and [...]
