- OC Lawyer Magazine Features
Article About Montage Legal's
Founders (December, 2011 Issue)
Outsourcing to
Temporary Attorneys...Is It Ethical?
It can be a good problem to have.
Clients are pouring in, and your firm is so
busy that you're not sure how you and your
team will finish everything and maintain the
quality and level of customer service
that attracted your clients. Your firm is
delivering outstanding results to your
clients, and is successful. But you and
the attorneys at your firm are overwhelmed,
and you need additional attorney help.
Or maybe your clients are balking at the high
fees, even cutting bills, and refusing to pay
associate rates...Read
more.
- ABA Journal Features Article
About Montage Legal (August, 2011
Issue)
Freelance Law:
Lawyers' network helps these women
keep a hand in the workforce
Laurie Rowen and Erin Giglia
would like to add a new work status to the law
dictionary: freelance. The 2009 founders
of the 24 lawyer Montage Legal Group in
Irvine, Calif., which bills itself as a
network of freelance attorneys, would also ask
that you not confuse Montage attorneys with
contract attorneys...Read
more.
- Montage Legal Owners Among OC
Metro's Top 40 Under 40 (May, 2011
Issue)
OC Metro
Magazine Names Laurie Rowen and Erin
Giglia Among its 2011 40 Under 40
OC Metro Magazine
recently revealed its 2011 list of
Orange County's top 40 professionals
under age 40 - and it includes Montage
Legal Group's co-owner/founders,
Laurie Rowen and Erin Giglia…Read
more.
- CNBC.com and Yahoo! Finance Feature Articles
About Montage Legal Group (2/1/11,
5/6/11)
Montage Adds Six
Lawyers from Gibson Dunn, Latham &
Watkins, Bryan Cave, Baker &
McKenzie...
IRVINE, Calif.,
May 6, 2011 -- Montage Legal has seen
enormous grown already this year.
The group recently added six new
lawyers who previously practiced law
at firms like Latham & Watkins,
Morrison Foerster, Bryan Cave, Paul
Hastings, Cooley, Baker & McKenzie,
Covington & Burling, and Morgan Lewis
and Bockius…Read
more.
Montage Legal
Group's Freelance Attorneys Find
Work-Life Balance While Helping Law
Firms Thrive in Economic Downturn
ORANGE COUNTY,
Calif., Feb. 1, 2011 -- Laurie Rowen
and Erin Giglia never dreamed their
two-woman contract attorney shop would
become a 16-attorney freelance legal
company in less than a year. Rowen and Giglia, who previously practiced law
at Snell & Wilmer, conceptualized
their business when…Read
more.
Kandy Williams'
iRelaunch "Success Story"
When I was on maternity leave with
my first child, my large corporate law
firm, Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, was
suffering in the throes of the
worldwide economic downturn. The firm
eventually collapsed...Read
more.
Laura
Finkelstein's iRelaunch "Success Story"
In 1996, I graduated from USC law
school in the top 10% of my class and
began my legal career working at two
top law firms. After I had my second
son, I decided to devote myself to
motherhood full- time while my
children were young...Read
more.
Women Lawyers
Online Interviews Montage's Laurie
Rowen as Part of the Work/Life Balance
Project
Laurie provided
her insights on work life balance, and
shared why Montage Legal has helped
her in an ongoing struggle to balance
her personal life and her life as a
lawyer...Read
more.
Market Mommy
Interviews Erin Giglia
Market Mommy
interviewed Montage Legal's
co-founder/owner in an interview
series about mom entrepreneurs who are
able to balance starting a new
business with raising a family...Read
more.
About
the Founders
Montage Legal Group was co-founded by
Laurie Gormican Rowen and Erin Clary
Giglia in early 2009. Laurie and
Erin met at Snell & Wilmer, LLP,
where they worked together as
associates in the Orange County
office. After their daughters were
born three weeks apart, the two
litigators decided to go out on their
own as freelance/contract attorneys.
Laurie and Erin worked for several
Southern California law firms on a
contract basis for a year, and added
similarly situated attorneys to their
group. Montage Legal Group now
includes 32 female attorneys, all
of whom have left law firms in search
of balance between career and family.
About
Montage Legal Group
In
today's legal climate, using
independent contractors for attorney
services is a way for a law firm or
business to maintain a competitive
edge. Providing employee benefits,
uncertain work flow, spending time
with payroll, and performing
administrative tasks can make it too
costly and risky to hire an
associate. When workload fluctuates
due to trials or a heavy caseload,
skilled freelance attorneys can enable
a firm to provide excellent work
product for their clients at reduced
costs.
Montage Legal Group is the answer to
the unique challenges currently facing
all types of law firms and small
businesses. Montage Legal Group is
not a law firm itself, but is a
network of individual sole
practitioner attorneys doing freelance
work from home on an hourly basis.
Whether a law firm needs assistance
with law and motion work, depositions,
court appearances or document review,
or wants to add a new specialty or
increased knowledge to their practice,
Montage Legal Group’s attorneys can
step in to provide quality legal
assistance at a moment's notice. Just
as an artistic montage unites simple
elements to create a beautiful art
form, our "montage" of attorneys unites
with firms of all sizes to create
excellent work product.
Montage Legal Group’s freelance
attorneys are the top of the "contract
attorney market," having graduated at
the top of their law school classes,
and with valuable experience in
full-service law firms. Our attorneys
have been trained by the nation’s top
law firms in all substantive legal
practices, and can handle any task
trusted to law firm associates.
Montage Legal Group brings large firm
experience and talent to other law
firms, on an as-needed basis.
For
More Information
For current information on Montage
Legal Group, and links
to articles on contract/freelance
attorneys and work-life balance,
please see our Montage Legal
Group Blog,
"Southern
California's Freelance Attorneys,"
Facebook page,
and
Twitter.
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