7-word bio: “Entrepreneur, author, creator, lawyer who loves, mom.”
Carolyn Elefant is in the midst of growing her high-profile energy regulatory practice. She’s particularly keen to further her imprint in an area traditionally allocated to multi-lawyer firms.
7-word bio: “Entrepreneurial evangelist, creativity crusader, adept, husband, father.”
7-word bio: “Virtual law office pioneer and technology evangelist.”
Stephanie Kimbro was pregnant with her first child and thought a sole practice doing estate planning from home would be a good way to combine a job and parenting. What she didn’t realize was that in five years, she’d earn more working from home than she did as a law firm associate.
7-word bio: “Copyright and trademark lawyer, author, motivational speaker.”
Corrected: When James Branum defends soldiers facing court-martial, he stands out with his tousled hair and suits that may not fit perfectly. Jesus, he says, led him to the work, and that also makes him different from many of his colleagues in the left-leaning National Lawyers Guild, whose Military Law Task Force he co-chairs.
Mindy Rush Chipman took an unusual path to law school. In need of work, she took a steady job at age 19 as a maximum security prison guard in Nebraska.
With his office about a block away from the federal court and two blocks from the state courthouse in Omaha, Neb., solo Duke Drouillard can be Johnny-on-the-spot if another lawyer or judge gives him call to let him know that a defendant needs a lawyer, and quick.
Bloomington, Minn., solo practitioner Larry Frost is in his first year as an attorney.
While working as a lawyer in Minneapolis, Jennifer Knapp came across a Craigslist ad for a third-generation firm for sale in a small town in Minnesota.
SoloCorps interviewers Carolyn Elefant and Lisa Solomon trained their video camera this morning on Melissa Stockman Maher, a solo in Roseville, Minn.
Solos Carolyn Elefant and Lisa Solomon safely landed in Minnesota Sunday and fired up their video camera en route to Duluth.
As Carolyn Elefant and Lisa Solomon make their way between two solo/small firm conferences in Minnesota and Nebraska, they’ll be holding Tweet-Ups (hashtag #SoloHeart) along the way.
So who are these innovative solos who’ll be making their way through the Midwest to speak to and about solo and small firm lawyers as part of a unique SoloCorps project?
A few months ago as we were mapping out our 2010 Legal Rebels project, this time focusing on the solo practitioner, we learned about an exciting new project that kicks off Aug. 1.
In 2003, when Seattle-based lawyer Kevin O’Keefe needed to think, he sat alone, blank sheet of paper in hand, in the garage.
For 25 years, Seattle-based litigator Ralph Palumbo followed the unchanging path of success within BigLaw even as he guided his corporate clients through dramatic changes. He saw them embrace technology to increase efficiency and cut overhead costs.
Christopher Marston graduated from Suffolk University Law School in Boston five years ago wanting to change the legal profession. A former CFO at JSA Technologies in Bedford, Mass., during the technology boom, Marston pursued a juris doctor and a graduate finance degree with the intention of attracting a business clientele.
