3-Hour Program

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Overview

Why You Should Attend

Are you thinking about “hanging out a shingle,” either on your own or with a colleague?  Many attorneys consider this career option, but how do you actually make it work? Setting up the office and getting business are top concerns. Solos also face a host of critical business and practice management decisions that will determine whether the new practice thrives or fails. At this program, you will get expert advice from a faculty of top solo practitioners   about the unique practical skills, knowledge, and best practices needed to develop a successful and satisfying solo or small law practice. 
 
What You Will Learn

• Setting up your practice: keeping your overhead low; new technologies and technology needs for the high-tech and technology “challenged”; using technology to launch your practice and develop client relationships; office space; staffing issues; virtual offices
• Getting started: should you take on per diem and contract work? Representing the client of modest means and other opportunities
• Building your practice: the most time effective ways to develop business; how you actually win or lose clients
• Business and economic considerations: setting prices, billing arrangements and the other business realities you didn’t learn in law school
• Communicating with clients: now that you have clients, how do you keep them? What works and what doesn’t work
• Aligning with other solo practitioners to complement your practice
• Ethical issues: “real world” concerns, including top attorney ethical violations, avoiding malpractice claims, marketing, social media and conflicts issues
• “What I wish someone had told me”: faculty insights on what they wish someone had told them before they opened up their own offices
• Suggestions for starting a law practice right out of law school

Who Should Attend

Whether you are a recent graduate or are an experienced practitioner, this program will provide you with the innovative ideas and practical advice you need to set up and maintain a profitable solo/small firm practice.

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