Finding Your Niche by Being Yourself
Finding your place in the law comes down to being unapologetically yourself and embracing whatever you are genuinely interested in. For the author, a longstanding love of all things macabre led her t…
GPSolo March/April 2024: Niche Areas of Law Practice
Volume 41, Issue 2
Features
Cannabis Law
In this newly regulated industry, there are many cannabis businesses that need assistance and plenty of legal work to go around.
Alcohol Beverage Law
Alcohol law is a narrow specialty but involves a broad range of practice areas, including business formation, financing, contracts, leases, federal and state licensing, advertising, and brand protect…
Maritime/Admiralty Law
In the author’s marine law practice, she supports law firms, corporate counsel departments, commercial marine clients, and marine insurers throughout the United States to navigate the intricacies of…
Special Education Law
Special education law is about empowering children with disabilities in public schools and catalyzing positive change for their families.
Natural Resources Law
As a natural resources lawyer, you may be researching and drafting opinions on laws and regulations one day and touring a mine site out in the field the next.
Privacy and Cybersecurity Law
Cybersecurity lawyers focus on tasks ranging from incident response to proactive privacy consulting and compliance to cybersecurity risk assessments and audits.
Trademark Law
The author stumbled into trademark law and built a fulfilling career and business she loves, helping small businesses and passionate entrepreneurs.
Building a Practice at the Intersection of Blockchain and Law
By building expertise, networking with industry professionals, and gaining practical experience, attorneys can position themselves as valuable resources on blockchain law.
Mastering Social Media Content for Niche Attorneys
Niche attorneys can utilize social media to engage users and showcase a firm’s expertise in their specific field, setting them apart from general law practices.
How Lawyers Should Conduct Interviews
Interviews with potential clients or witnesses are not interrogations. Approach them as you would a pleasant conversation with someone introduced by a friend or relative.
Columns
Everything Is Temporary
Nothing lasts forever, even the most challenging work assignment, so remember your purpose—and that all things are temporary.
Your Success, Our Mission: Partnering for Legal Excellence
The GPSolo Division Chair-Elect presents her vision for the coming year: to empower our members to thrive in an ever-changing legal environment.
Tips for Using Artificial Intelligence Effectively and Efficiently
AI will increase its presence in our lives, so familiarize yourself with it and make informed decisions about when, where, and how to employ it.
Seven Funding Strategies for Solos
With your vision for success in mind, consider personal savings and investment, small business loans and lines of credit, business credit cards, legal incubators and accelerators, grants, crowdfundin…
Tips for Using a Mac When Everyone Else Uses Windows
These tips, tricks, hacks, and guides will ensure everything you do on your Mac can be shared seamlessly with your Windows-focused colleagues.
Mentoring and the Niche Practice
By joining substantive bar committees and participating in online forums, niche lawyers will find attorneys willing to share lessons from their failures as well as their successes.
Issue Editors
Elí Salomón Contreras (convening issue editor), Ashley Hallene, Joshua Daley Paulin, Eleanor Southers, Lesly Longa Vaillancourt. Consultants: Gary P. Bauer, Julie T. Houth, Brandon Theus
Issue Editors, GPSolo magazine, March/April 2024 (41:2): Niche Areas of Law Practice