{"id":4800,"date":"2004-04-21T19:29:16","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T23:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/04\/21\/special-rules-for-solos\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:50","slug":"special-rules-for-solos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/04\/21\/special-rules-for-solos\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Rules for Solos?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An <\/FONT>article<\/FONT><\/A> in today’s New York Law Journal<\/EM> says the State’s Chief Judge has created “a commission to examine the difficulties facing solo and small firm practitioners, a contingent that totals about 80 percent of lawyers in the state.”<\/FONT>
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“[T]he 28-member panel is to provide a way for solo and small firm lawyers to have a voice in the rules and requirements<\/STRONG> established by the Office of Court Administration, [Chief] Judge Kaye said yesterday”  (NYLJ<\/EM>, “New Commission Gives Voice to NY Solo, Small Firm Lawyers,” by Leigh Jones, 04-21-04)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\"phone   This will surely be greeted with joy over at MyShingle<\/A>. [see my blushing Update below]  But, we’re a little skeptical over here.  The “problems<\/STRONG>” leading to establishment of the Commission, as mentioned in the article, make me wonder if solo\/smalls want legal standards and ethics to be dummed down, in order to meet the “special” needs of these “challenged” practitioners.  For example, the small fry firms worry about:<\/FONT>
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