Shadow flicker

This question has been around for quite some time now, but I haven't been able to find a true fix for this. The problem is that, if you have set the "near clipping" property of your cam to a too small value, the shadows start to flicker.
This is really annoying. It can be fixed by increasing the near clipping to something like 0.1, but I'd still like to have a relatively small clipping distance.
Has anyone found a hack/workaround/fix to have a small value for clipping and not having flickering shadow?