Lawyer On! The Contract Attorney's Blog http://contractattorneys.wordpress.com The Freelance Lawyer's Legal Research and Writing Blog Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:41:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/b9b4ce23a37b6582390af422e9383949?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Lawyer On! The Contract Attorney's Blog http://contractattorneys.wordpress.com Where have all the flowers gone? http://contractattorneys.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone/ http://contractattorneys.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:41:18 +0000 Kimberly Alderman http://contractattorneys.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone/ ]]>

imagesI’ve been pretty actively busy in recent months so my posts have slowed to a near trickle. Please enjoy the old posts and information, and do still feel free to contact me directly, but FYI I am no longer updating the blog. Priorities and all that jazz. You know how it goes.

Lawyer On… Kimberly

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A new article on NLJ features one of my favorite online lawyer-friends Lisa Solomon.  Check out Downturn May Have an Upside for Contract Attorneys.

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Telephone-results.jpgA few weeks ago I decided I need to get out from the home office and do some in-person lawyering. This was partly motivated by having been in DC for a three-week trial (which re-inflamed my courtroom itch) and partly because I found myself feel like a cooped up housewife descending into madness. I had plenty of work to do, but felt like the days kind of blended together, and that there was too much cleaning up dog fur and not enough adult conversation.

So I rang a couple of lawyers in town that looked nice adjudging from their lawyer bios online, got to chatting with the right person, and ended up getting a pretty sweet lawyer gig about 7 minutes from the house. It’s flexible, I can continue freelancing, and I’m just aga over the managing attorney. The attorney in the next office over and I share a pre-law career in archaeology, and the other attorneys are pretty nice and dynamic also.

Suffice it to say, I’m still here, although I may be a little slower with the posts. I am still publishing Wax Poetic, my legal writing monthly newsletter, and taking freelance gigs as they come up and appeal to me. In fact, I just wrote my first magazine article for an up and coming national publication. I’ll, of course, update when that gets published.

My new situation is a tribute to the cold call, which I was inspired to try by a recent post by Carolyn Elefant on Nolo.

Hope all is well out in webland, friends!

Lawyer On! Kimberly

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Picture 1.pngIn the March/April 2009 edition of the ABA’s Law Practice Magazine, I contributed to Stephanie West Allen’s column, Reading Minds. I recommend David Allen in my article, and explain how his productivity system parallels Buddhist teachings. My online friend Victoria Pynchon is also in there, which is awesome! Check out Law Practice Magazine’s Reading Minds.

Lawyer On… Kimberly.

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