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No doubt about it: it’s hard out there for a new lawyer. There are vocal bloggers on the internet, failed wannabe attorneys who blame the game for their failings: L4L, BL1Y, Nando. It’s much easier to hang out on JD Underground blaming the profession for the fact that you are living in your parents’ basement, [...]
Mark Bennett | December 7, 2009
In response to my post on how to choose a criminal defense lawyer, a couple of people asked for a similar guide for the clients who can’t afford to hire the kind of lawyer I would hire if I were in trouble. For example, “What I wish you had written is how to select [...]
Mark Bennett | June 1, 2009
There’s an interesting online discussion between late-Gen-X Adrian Dayton and Boomer Scott Greenfield. Adrian, in Get Out of My Face, says, “Generation Y wants their life to mean something. They want to handle work that is significant, and they certainly don’t want to crank out the billable hours reviewing non-urgent documents on a Saturday afternoon [...]
Mark Bennett | March 24, 2009
New York criminal defense lawyer Scott Greenfield really doesn’t like the idea, but prescribes two options for “when there’s no other choice.”
Virginia prosecutor (and former criminal defense lawyer) Ken Lammers did it himself, and offers “option C: nose to the grindstone.”
Miami criminal defense lawyer Brian Tannebaum, who got himself a fancy-pants PD gig out of [...]
Mark Bennett | January 12, 2009
National Law Journal (H/T Omar Ha-Redeye)notes the decline of business for contract attorneys:
As law firms downsize, laid-off attorneys and new law school graduates unable to find jobs have been turning to an option they may never have imagined at law school: becoming contract attorneys — hired guns [or, more aptly, cannon fodder] for $35 an [...]
Mark Bennett | April 23, 2007
Keep your overhead as low as possible. You need a good laptop. You don’t need a secretary.
Join your local, state, and national criminal defense lawyers’ organizations, and join their listservs.
You don’t need ProDoc (unless you’re doing more than just criminal law). You might not even need an office at first – just a place where [...]
