Challenges of Going Solo

Young Attorneys Who Go Solo Face Hurdles but Reap Rewards
Hope Caldwell
The Legal Intelligencer02-06-2006

A new year always pushes people to make resolutions -- some vow to lose weight, find love or quit smoking. For young attorneys, starting one's own firm or business might be a goal, but for some it always remains just that: a goal

For attorneys working at firms, finding time to meet all of the requisite billable hours is the stressor that overtakes each day. However, for the solo practitioner, the stressor in their day is not limited to the billable hour but rather to a myriad of other concerns: marketing, administrative work, filing motions, arguing motions, answering the phone and paying the office bills, to name a few. The list goes on for solo practitioners trying to start their own business while providing a valuable service to their clients.

For solo practioners, more so than attorneys at firms, time management and optimizing one's use of time is paramount. Time-intensive legal research and writing and general document review is often times a crucial aspect of most solo attorneys' work load. Solos should really take a hard look at how legal outsourcing can help them manage their workload and still do a quality job for their clients.

LegalEase Solutions' client base consists of a healthy number of solo practitioners, who often times rely on LegalEase's research and writing services to get work completed on time. Moreover, as solos often don't have the luxury of having someone to ask for advice, the inexpensive use of legal outsourcing companies can help solos cope with the knowledge and experience deficit they often times inevitably have.

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