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Sep 28, 2010 / Audio, Guest Lectures
Kelly Phillips Erb is a tax lawyer focused on tax law for businesses and families. She provided a guest lecture Wednesday, October 6th about expenses and deductions for professionals who work from home on a full or part-time basis. Kelly Phillips Erb is an attorney and shareholder with the Erb Law Firm, PC. She has [...]
Sep 28, 2010 / Demographic/Economic Trends
My post yesterday struck a chord. There was one response which I did not want buried in the comments and decided to post as a follow up because this Mississippi lawyer , John Gillis, took the time to educate us all on the state of mandatory pro bono throughout the country. I’m a Mississippi lawyer [...]
Sep 27, 2010 / Demographic/Economic Trends
More than three years ago I wrote this column for the Connecticut Law Tribune: ********************* Connecticut Law Tribune – June 8, 2007 (This column comes on the heels of the recent Second Circuit Decision regarding pro bono fees, as a I promised.) It's been a year since I read an Illinois Supreme Court ruling regarding [...]
Sep 20, 2010 / Announcements
Katherine Frye is a North Carolina attorney and board certified specialist in Family Law. She will be teaching a course called "Child Custody: Start to finish…is there an end???" at Solo Practice University®. Katherine received her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After graduation, Katherine went directly to law school [...]
Sep 20, 2010 / Inspiration, Solo & Small Firm Practice, Subjective Opinions
I was reading the newspaper last week (gasp! Yes, I still get one) and there was an article entitled, 'Average Time Employees Stay At Job is 4.4 years.' The median number of years that workers have stayed with their current employer went up to 4.4 years in January 2010, from 4.1 years in January 2008, [...]
Sep 16, 2010 / Marketing
Especially in a depressed economy, lawyers fear that niche marketing will limit their ability to
get other business. I assure them that this is a marketing strategy, not necessarily a practice
limitation. You don’t have to turn away other work…..
Sep 13, 2010 / Marketing, Solo & Small Firm Practice
Lately, I have been amazed at how much I simply don't trust anything I hear anymore and very little of what I read. This society we live in has left me so jaded in many ways because at every turn corporations and politicians have, like water dripping on a stone over time, eroded our confidence [...]
Sep 10, 2010 / Audio, Guest Lectures
Richard A. Epstein and Debra C. Crookston are part of the L.H. Brenner team. On September 21st they presented a guest lecture teaching you what you need to know before you purchase Professional Liability Insurance. Professional Liability Insurance is more complicated than most lawyers realize and quite often they realize how complicated it is too [...]
Sep 7, 2010 / Announcements
Elizabeth Granoff maintains a solo practice in Illinois. She will be teaching a course called “I’ve Been Grieved. Now What?” at Solo Practice University™.
Sep 6, 2010 / Announcements
A lot of people may just be heading off to school now that fall is here, but August at SPU was a month full of learning opportunities!
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