Jan 25, 2010 in Faculty Announcements
Jay Shepherd runs Shepherd Law Group, the Boston employer law firm that completely replaced the billable hour with fixed pricing. He will teach a course called “Fixing Your Fees, Fixing Your Practice” at Solo Practice University™.
Jan 18, 2010 in Marketing, Social Media
One thing my mother always told me, “The day a hand with a fist full of money comes through the telephone is the day you can stop meeting people in person to close a sale and just hang out on the phone.”
Jan 18, 2010 in Announcements
Trippe S. Fried will teach a course about business law at Solo Practice University®. Trippe Fried has been a practicing attorney for seventeen years. He works exclusively with entrepreneurs and businesses and often as an outsourced general counsel. Trippe functions both as part of the management team assessing and addressing potential risks and as the [...]
Jan 11, 2010 in Demographic/Economic Trends, Inspiration, Law School Innovation, Subjective Opinions
“Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.”
John W. Gardner
Jan 4, 2010 in Demographic/Economic Trends, Solo & Small Firm Practice
An increasing number of civil cases go forward without lawyers. Litigants who cannot afford a lawyer, and either do not qualify for legal aid or are unable to have a lawyer assigned to them because of dwindling budgets, are on their own — pro se.
Jan 4, 2010 in Audio, Guest Lectures
Jordan Furlong is a partner with Edge International, providing consulting services to law firms on strategic planning and tactical matters. He will give a teleseminar on January 12th discussing the future of the legal profession.
Dec 21, 2009 in Demographic/Economic Trends
The other night I was listening to talk radio and I heard something which was both dismaying yet exhilarating at the same time. Bear with me. The show was discussing how two great professions, the medical field and the legal field, were now closing in on the least desirable professions to pursue. But…..
Dec 14, 2009 in Marketing
We hear lots of verbiage out there about fixed fees, flat fees, alternative fees, value billing, value pricing, open pricing, call it what you will but there are few concrete examples of transitioning from the billable model and the lawyer’s fear that goes with. This is the story of one of my clients.
Dec 7, 2009 in Audio, Guest Lectures
Deborah L. Cohen has worked as a business journalist since receiving a Masters from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in 1996. She provided a guest lecture about how to work with a reporter from the reporter’s perspective. In this teleseminar Deborah discussed how to work with a reporter from the reporter’s perspective. This is [...]
Dec 2, 2009 in Announcements
The ABA Blawg 100 beauty pageant has begun once again and Build A Solo Practice @ SPU is a finalist in the Business category. As a rule, I’m not big on these types of things. However, once I thought about it I realized this ‘award’ is important, not for me, but for all solos out [...]
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