{"id":267,"date":"2006-11-06T20:37:22","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T00:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/11\/06\/dear-solo-its-self-help-not-help-yourse"},"modified":"2006-11-06T20:41:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T00:41:23","slug":"dear-solo-its-self-help-not-help-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/11\/06\/dear-solo-its-self-help-not-help-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"dear solo: it&#8217;s &#8220;self-help&#8221; not &#8220;help yourself&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><font face=\"Arial\">Are lawyers confusing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Steal-This-Book-Abbie-Hoffman\/dp\/156858217X\">Abbie Hoffman&#8217;<\/a>s yippie advice <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steal_This_Book\">book<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"96\" alt=\"HoffmanSteal\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2006\/11\/HoffmanSteal.jpg\" width=\"57\" \/><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\">with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foonberglaw.com\/prod\/htsab.html\">Jay Foonberg&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0classic <em>How to Start and Build a Law Practice<\/em>?\u00a0 <font face=\"Arial\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"90\" alt=\"FoonbergBook\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2006\/11\/FoonbergBook.jpg\" width=\"60\" \/>\u00a0<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><span \/><\/div>\n<div><span \/><font face=\"Arial\" \/><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\">Here&#8217;s what Laura O. at the <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonlegalresearch.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/book-thieves-among-other-books-in-my.html\"><em>Oregon Legal Research<\/em> weblog<\/a> told her readers on Nov. 1, 2006:<\/font><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\"><font color=\"#000000\"><strong>Book Thieves:<\/strong> Among other books in my law library, our <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foonberglaw.com\/prod\/htsab.html\"><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\">latest Foonberg<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Arial\"> has been stolen (and people wonder why library staff keep (or itch to keep) books \u201cbehind the desk\u201d). I\u2019ve heard that <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foonberglaw.com\/index.html\"><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\">Foonberg\u2019s<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Arial\">, \u201c<em>How to Start and Build a Law Practice,\u201d<\/em> is among the most commonly stolen books in law libraries. What does this say about certain lawyers? . . . . &#8220;<\/font><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\">Starting your own law practice is indeed a good topic for self-helpers, and we hope Foonberg&#8217;s $70 volume is widely available at public and academic libraries.\u00a0 But, helping yourself to <em>Foonberg<\/em>, or any other library book, is not fair to other users (and is\u00a0almost certainly\u00a0illegal in most states).\u00a0\u00a0 Rather than risking prison, embarrassment or <em>disbar<\/em>assment, we suggest that the penurious potential shingle-hanger take advantage of the comprehensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myshingle.com\/my_shingle\/online-guide0505.html\">Online Guide to Creating a Law Practice<\/a> assembled by <em>Shingler<\/em>-in-Chief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myshingle.com\/about.html\">Carolyn Elefant<\/a>. <\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are lawyers confusing Abbie Hoffman&#8217;s yippie advice book\u00a0\u00a0 with Jay Foonberg&#8217;s\u00a0classic How to Start and Build a Law Practice?\u00a0 \u00a0 Here&#8217;s what Laura O. at the Oregon Legal Research weblog told her readers on Nov. 1, 2006: Book Thieves: Among other books in my law library, our latest Foonberg has been stolen (and people wonder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[897],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-practitioner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}