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&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;re thinking of hanging out your own shingle, or you&amp;rsquo;ve already got one but it&amp;rsquo;s dangling by a thread, rest assured: you&amp;rsquo;re not alone. The &lt;i&gt;ABA Journal&lt;/i&gt; invited three practice management consultants to assess three lawyers&amp;rsquo; struggling practices, revisited the lawyers six months later to see how they fared following the consultants&amp;rsquo; advice, and published their stories in this month&amp;rsquo;s magazine. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last week, Leora Maccabee, a litigation associate and social media guru, used Twitter to solicit advice for lawyers starting their own practice and gathered her top 10 &amp;ldquo;tidbits&amp;rdquo; into a post at Lawyerist. Notwithstanding concern from one commenter who wisely cautions against relying on a &amp;ldquo;few feel good quick tips&amp;rdquo; if you really want &amp;ldquo;to start, market &amp;amp; manage a successful law firm start a practice,&amp;rdquo; others among the Twitterati freely offered up words of wisdom, ranging from terse suggestions to &amp;ldquo;balance work/life&amp;rdquo; to more fundamental advice: &amp;ldquo;Know who you want to serve, why, &amp;amp; how; be prepared to tell them. Stick to your mission &amp;amp; re-evaluate often.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One reason to go out on your own, according to Texas lawyer Paul Schorn, is to escape the narcissists, competitive kiss-ups, power-happy office managers and overweight &amp;ldquo;wellness&amp;rdquo; coaches endemic to large law firms. &amp;ldquo;Part of what makes solo practice worthwhile,&amp;rdquo; he explains,&amp;ldquo; is getting to avoid some of the people who can drain all the fun out of practicing law.&amp;rdquo; Check out his portrait of &amp;ldquo;The 4 People Lawyers Won&amp;rsquo;t Meet in Solo Practice.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And don&amp;rsquo;t let setbacks drag you down. For suggestions on how to re-package failure as success, check out this story from the &lt;i&gt;Washington Post&lt;/i&gt; (via ABA Journal). After (and despite) her own &amp;ldquo;career crash&amp;rdquo; (she walked out half-way through a clerkship, having decided not to be a lawyer after all), Anna Rappaport became a coach, advising lawyers and small-business owners how to overcome their career setbacks. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;- posted by vera&lt;/p&gt;

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