David Wolf is an SEO & Internet Marketing Strategist. He will provide a guest lecture  on August 24th called “Building Authority Over Time The Right Way – SEO, Social Media, & What It All Means To The Marketing Lawyer” at Solo Practice University™.

As an SEO & Internet Marketing Strategist Mr. Wolf has been building his expertise in various fields within the internet marketing genre. He is currently the V.P. of Internet Marketing Strategies for InBusiness, Inc. of Orlando overseeing  a combined client marketing budget of more than 2 million annually. A large portion of this is comprised of businesses spending less than $5000/month on marketing and advertising. Mr. Wolf is a graduate of the University of Central Florida holding a degree in Finance, and has been acknowledged for his unique ability to convey complex ideas in a simple, understandable manner. Mr. Wolf is also the Internet Marketing trainer for the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program.

Syllabus – Building Authority Over Time The Right Way – SEO, Social Media, & What It All Means To The Marketing Lawyer

SEO & The Search Engine Equation From 50,000 Feet

• Learn what the most important website factors are for high rankings and what to leave alone so you don’t waste your time
• Learn the five most important factors agreed upon by industry experts in the SEOmoz.org 2009 SEO Ranking Factors Survey
• Understand how the percentages break out in the bulk of the rankings equations that Google uses and why they matter

Common SEO Tactics In The Legal Industry For Marketing

• What the big boys are doing and why it works
• Learn the different strategies that were once effective, but are not as effective today
• Understand why creating real value and real world authority is the best way to get higher rankings
• What’s a Blog Roll? (No, we’re not talking sushi). Why it matters. Doing it right. Doing it wrong.
• How to identify how strong your competition is and what is working for them

Online Actions Every Lawyer Should Be Taking

• What is Google Places and how do you get to the top of the your most important venue for local marketing
• What are the key elements to a successful website
• How to publish effectively
• Building authority in a crowded market place
• Understanding the snowball effect

Leveraging Social Media For Better Organic Search Rankings

• Turn social media from a tool to a weapon
• Asking for the sell

Useful Tools

• How to determine when to outsource internet marketing and when to do it yourself

This lecture will be placed inside SPU for our students and will also be available free to our fans on Facebook on Tuesday, August 27th. Click ‘audio’. You can become a fan here but you must be signed into Facebook.

Kira Fonteneau is a landlord tenant attorney primarily representing landlords. She will teach a course about Landlord/Tenant Law at Solo Practice University™.

Ms. Fonteneau is Licensed to practice law in Alabama, Georgia and Virginia, but focuses her practice in Alabama running The Fonteneau Firm, LLC. As part of her practice, Kira routinely and successfully represents clients from across the country with legal issues in Alabama in unlawful detainer, ejectment, premises liability and other disputes arising out of the landlord and tenant relationship. Ms. Fonteneau also advises her clients concerning landlord best practices to avoid tenant claims and protracted litigation.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Virginia and a Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law.  Kira is also an accomplished speaker focusing her presentations on employment topics like the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Racial and Sexual Harassment, Proper Discharge Procedures and Leadership.

Syllabus – Landlord Tenant Law Practice Basics

1. Building Your Landlord Tenant Practice
   • Why Landlord Tenant law?
   • The Lawyer’s Value Proposition to Clients
   • Finding Landlord Clients
   • Finding Tenant Clients
2. Surveying the Legal Landscape
   • Common Law Landlord and Tenant Law
   • The Uniform Landlord Tenant Act
3. Traps for the Unwary Landlord I: The Federal Framework
   • Tenant Screening using Credit Checks Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act
   • Housing Discrimination Under the Fair Housing Act
4. Traps for the Unwary Landlord II: State Law Considerations
   • Unlawful Ouster
   • Habitability
   • Premises liability
   • Retaliation
5. Traps for the Unwary Landlord III: Ownership Interests
   • Lease Purchase Agreements
   • Option to Buy Contracts
   • Foreclosures
6. The Pro Se Problem
   • DIY Landlords
   • Unrepresented defendants
7. Anatomy of an Unlawful Detainer
   • Giving Notice
   • Filing Suit
     • Common Defenses
     • Common Counter claims
   • Possession
   • Money Judgments
   • Tenant Removal
   • Collections
8. Managing the Relationship: The Proper Care and Feeding of Tenants
   • Lease Agreements
   • Landlord Rules
   • Non-Monetary Breaches of the Lease
   • Abandonment
   • Security Deposits
   • Inspections, Maintenance and Entering the Leased Premises
   • Landlord’s Liens

Cultural antiquities lawyer, Kimberly Alderman, will be teaching two courses at Solo Practice University™: first Freelance Lawyering 101, then Cultural Antiquities Law.

Kimberly Alderman is an attorney and cultural property law scholar. She currently practices law in Taos, New Mexico, and is the author of the Cultural Property & Archaeology Law Blog. She is on the Board of Editors for the State Bar of New Mexico and the Steering Committee for the ABA’s Art and Cultural Heritage Law Committee. Kimberly has built up a freelance business that serves as a tidy supplement to other forms of income. Her freelance business has enabled her to move from St. Croix to Alaska to New Mexico, while maintaining professional continuity. It has also allowed her to focus on her niche of cultural property law in a way that working a traditional firm job would not have likely allowed.

Syllabus – Freelance Lawyering 101

How to Build and Run a Freelance Lawyering Business

This course is for lawyers who want to work for other lawyers on a temporary, freelance basis. The benefits of this kind of arrangement are numerous: you can keep a flexible schedule, you can run a business with little to no overhead, and you can take as little or as much work as you want. There is, however, a shroud of mystery around how freelance operations work. Freelance Lawyering provides practical advice on building and running a freelance lawyering business. Topics covered include rate-setting, billing methods, ethical considerations, client relations, overcoming stigmas, and keeping yourself marketable.

Taught in six 1-hour classes.

Class 1: Risks and Rewards

Objective: To give an accurate picture of freelance lawyering, and to allow potential freelancers to judge whether this is something they want to do before putting time and resources into trying.

Class 2: Getting Started

Objectives: To give course participants details on what tools are and are not essential to begin freelance lawyering, and to provide information and resources to enable participants to move forward in starting a freelance lawyering business.

Class 3: Services

Objectives: To give course participants information about what kinds of services they might wish to provide, to explain how the process can or should work, and to provide resources that enable them to provide services successfully.

Class 4: Finances & Billing

Objectives: To give course participants details on dealing with payment issues (billing systems, receiving payments, non-paying clients) and managing the finances of a freelance lawyering business.

Class 5: Legal & Ethical Concerns

Objectives: To address legal and ethical concerns in freelance lawyering and will give course participants a roadmap as to how to address these concerns.

Class 6: Getting and Keeping Attorney Clients

Objectives: To give course participants the requisite knowledge to market freelance services, manage an online presence, maximize client satisfaction, and maintain work/life balance.

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Syllabus – Cultural Property Law

This course provides an introduction to the body of law, including domestic and foreign law, and treaties and conventions, that regulates and pertains to cultural property (such as ancient artifacts, historical relics, and fine art).

Other topics covered include armed conflict, repatriation, shipwrecks, and the role that the auction industry and museums play in cultural property.

Taught in twelve 30-minute classes.

Class 1: Introduction to Cultural Property; Road Map; Basic Concepts and Terminology.

Class 2: Domestic Laws Pertaining to Cultural Property in the United States.

Class 3: Foreign Laws Pertaining to Cultural Property.

Class 4: International Law; Treaties and Conventions.

Class 5: The Role of International Organizations in the Protection of Cultural Property; the United Nations.

Class 6: Armed Conflict and Cultural Property; Restitution.

Class 7: Criminal Laws Pertaining to Cultural Property; Enforcement.

Class 8: Cultural Property as a Political Tool; Nationalism’s Role in the CP Debates; Repatriation.

Class 9: Cultural Property Off-Shore: Shipwrecks and Underwater Ruins.

Class 10: The Private Trade in Antiquities: the Auction Industry, Private Collectors, Museums.

Class 11: Moving Beyond Traditional Definitions: Intangible, Non-Object Cultural Property.

Class 12: Resources for Moving Forward; Getting Involved in the Protection of Cultural Property.

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™.

Jay has been protecting employers in and out of court for 16 years, and he’s defeated some of the largest law firms in the country. He’s nationally known for his expertise in noncompete lawsuits and related business-employment litigation. Jay has defended employers large and small in discrimination cases in state and federal courts. He has taught seminars to thousands of employees, managers, and other lawyers on employment-law topics from sexual harassment to wage litigation. Law & Politics magazine has called him one of the “Top 100 lawyers in New England.”

Jay writes two award-winning blogs. The Client Revolution, which the ABA Journal named to its “Blawg 100” list of the one hundred best law bogs, is dedicated to killing the billable the hour and bringing value to the practice of law. His employer blog, Gruntled Employees, focuses on teaching employers how to have easier workplaces. Human Resource Executive magazine named it “Best HR Law Site.”

Jay graduated from Johns Hopkins University and Boston College Law School. He’s admitted in Massachusetts and in the federal courts including the U.S. Supreme Court. He currently serves as the management-side chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section.

Jay’s married to an employment lawyer at another Boston firm and has two young daughters (who are not employment lawyers). Jay’s written a 700-page draft of a legal thriller, which someday he may have time to finish editing. You know, in his spare time.

Syllabus

Course objective

To show solo and small-firm lawyers how they can improve their practices by trashing the billable hour and learning how to properly price their services, giving them an advantage over their competitors and allowing them to dramatically increase the value of the services they provide to their clients.

Who should attend

Any lawyer who is interested in abandoning the billable hour but doesn’t know how to actually go about doing it. This course is for lawyers who want real-world-tested nuts-and-bolts knowledge rather than fancy theory and lip service. While employment lawyers will find it most useful, since many of the examples come from Jay’s employment-litigation practice, almost any solo or small-firm lawyer will take away lessons that he or she can apply to any kind of practice.

Course outline

• Why hourly billing is bad for your clients … and for you
• Understanding value, costs, profit, and price
• Why I hate the term “alternative billing”
• Exposing the impostors — the false alternatives
• Why you need to have a zero-tolerance policy for timesheets
• How to set your prices
• Whether to look at old bills
• Why you shouldn’t reverse engineer hourly rates
• About menus and commodity pricing
• Figuring out what the market will bear, and where your place in the market lies
• Why it helps to have a pricing committee
• Drawing up the fixed-price agreement
• Avoiding scope creep
• Handling change orders, and when not to use them
• Shifting risk away from the client
• When to set the price
• Pricing mistakes: how to fix some, and how to live with others
• Ethical issues
• How to price employment litgation
• How to price transactional work
• How to price advice work
• What about fixed prices outside of employment law?

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.

He’s also a Senior Consultant with Stem Legal and principal of its Media Strategy consulting service. Finally, he’s also an award-winning blogger who chronicles the extraordinary changes underway in the practice of law at Law21: Dispatches from a Legal Profession on the Brink.

After graduating from Queen’s University Faculty of Law in 1993, Jordan articled with Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in 1994 before beginning a career in legal journalism. He spent more than a dozen years leading three top Canadian legal periodicals: he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Bar Association’s flagship magazine National for a full decade (1999-2009), during which time it earned eight awards for journalistic excellence. He also founded and served as Executive Editor of the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association’s CCCA Magazine (2007-2009), and he held the position of Managing Editor with The Lawyers Weekly newspaper (1997-1998).

Jordan is an Honorary Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, he served as editor of its 2006 Innovaction e-zine on innovation in law practice, and he currently chairs the College’s InnovAction Awards, which recognize and reward creativity and innovation in legal services delivery. He’s also a regular columnist with Slaw, writing on the future of law practice. He has spoken about the challenges facing the legal profession at numerous conferences, and his written work has been published in a wide variety of periodicals aimed at both lawyers and clients. You can find him on LinkedIn and Twitter, and he lives in Ottawa, Canada, with his wife and two children.

Teleseminar Topics

1. Why the billable hour’s not dead — just irrelevant.
2. Why process and systematization will change how legal work is done.
3. Why ‘access to justice’ no longer has to mean ‘access to a lawyer’. Will we see the demise of “Unauthorized Practice of Law” restrictions?
4. How and why client collaboration will impact your practice.
5. Are we finally ready for preventive lawyering, becoming full time holistic legal health professionals?
6. How will the introduction of Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and China (BRIIC) into the global legal marketplace effect you and your practice?
7. Why solos and small firms are the long-term future of the practice of law.
8. Why law schools won’t change, but legal education will.

If you are not currently enrolled at Solo Practice University but would like to have access to this special lecture, log in to  Facebook (or create an account) and become a fan here

Adam M. Gee is a personal injury and malpractice attorney with the Ziff Law Firm in Elmira, New York. He will teach a course about handling motorcycle cases at Solo Practice University™.

Adam received his Bachelor of Science degree from Allegheny College, where he graduated as an Alden Scholar (Dean’s List). Adam was also a Dean’s List student at the Syracuse University College of Law, graduating with a Juris Doctorate Degree in 1996.

Adam began his legal career with the Chemung County District Attorney’s Office as an Assistant District Attorney. Adam quickly rose to the rank of felony prosecutor, where he worked on the most serious crimes occurring in Chemung County. In 2000, Adam left the DA’s Office to become head of the Legal Department for the Chemung County Department of Social Services. In that capacity, Adam managed an office of 7 attorneys and was responsible for the presentation of all child abuse and neglect proceedings, termination of parental rights, and juvenile delinquency matters in Chemung County. Adam has extensive courtroom experience including the arguing of appeals before the Appellate Divisions and the Court of Appeals; New York’s highest court.

In 2004, Adam left public service to join the Ziff Law Firm as a litigator. At the Ziff Law Firm, Adam limits his practice to serious personal injuries and malpractice. The partners in the Ziff Law Firm were so impressed with Adam’s hard work that he was promoted to full partnership in record time– less than two years after he joined the firm. Adam is a tenacious trial lawyer who thrives on being in the courtroom.

Over his years of practice, Adam noted a significant spike in the number of motorcycle collisions reported in the news and coming through the doors of his office. Adam quickly found out that motorcycle cases were far different than the typical car accident case. The plaintiffs were different, their needs were different, and the laws, rules, presumptions and prejudices regarding bikers necessitated a different means of handling motorcycle case. Over the years, Adam has honed the handling of motorcycle cases, and in the process developed a sub-practice of motorcycle injury cases that has achieved significant results for dozens of clients.

It is not just the handling of motorcycle cases that is different. Marketing to bikers also a specialty unto itself. Through trial, error and dogged determination, Adam has perfected his marketing to bikers, and now enjoys a very active motorcycle injury practice. As part of his marketing efforts, Adam literally wrote the book on motorcycle law, called “Would You Ride Your Motorcycle Naked?”, which dispels many of the myths bikers have about insurance, urges bikers to examine their coverage, explains the type of available coverage, and recommends the amount of coverage bikers should consider purchasing so that they and their families are properly protected in the event of a serious accident.

Adam is admitted to practice in New York and Pennsylvania, and is a member of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers, the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, as well as the Chemung County and New York State Bar Associations.

You can read more from Adam on his blog.

Syllabus

• Initial Screening of a Potential Motorcycle Case
  • The initial phone call
  • The first office consultation
  • Records and documents to obtain before the first consultation
• Investigating the Motorcycle Collision
  • Obtaining the accident report
  • Obtaining records of the first responder
  • Photographing the vehicles
  • Hiring an accident reconstructionist
• Pre-Suit Negotiation of the Motorcycle Case
  • Obtaining the pertinent records
  • Analyzing the records
  • Presentation of the records and your demands to the adjuster
  • Overcoming the adjuster’s bias towards bikers
• Discovery Tips and Techniques
  • How to respond to the Defendant’s demands
  • Demands you must make
• Trial of the Motorcycle Case
  • Picking your jury
  • Overcoming jury bias
  • Presenting your case
  • Attacking the Defendant’s case
• Marketing to Bikers: Developing a Motorcycle Practice
  • Indirect Marketing Techniques
  • Direct Marketing Techniques
  • Blogs, social media and books

Attorney Jennifer Laviano is in private practice in Connecticut. She will teach a course entitled “Introduction to Special Education Law” at Solo Practice University™.

Jennifer holds an undergraduate degree in English Literature from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, and she earned her Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Quinnipiac University School of Law in Hamden, Connecticut.

Jennifer has dedicated her law practice entirely to the representation of children and adolescents with disabilities whose families are in disagreement with their public school districts. Her representation of children with special needs encompasses the full spectrum of advocacy under the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), from attendance at IEP Team meetings and Mediation, to zealous and experienced litigation in Due Process Hearings and Federal Court.

Jennifer is a regular presenter, both locally and nationally, on the subject of the special legal rights of children with disabilities and their entitlement to receive a Free and Appropriate Education. She also serves on the Board of Directors of COPAA, the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, which is the leading national voice on special education rights and advocacy. Jennifer is also the co-host of the weekly radio show “Your Special Education Rights with Jen and Julie” on Autism One Radio.

Jennifer represents children with special needs throughout the State of Connecticut.

To learn more, visit Jennifer’s website and read her Special Ed Justice blog.

Syllabus – Introduction to Special Education Law

1. What is the IDEA: An Overview
2. FAPE is a Free Appropriate Public Education. But what does it mean?
   • “Free” is “at no cost”
   • “Appropriate” means the Chevy not the Cadillac
   • “Public” might mean private
   • “Education” is more than just academics
3. IEP: The Individualized Education Plan
4. Procedural Safeguards
5. LRE: The Least Restrictive Environment Provision of the IDEA
6. Discipline, Manifestation Determinations and “stay-put”
7. Alternative Dispute Resolutions: Mediation, Resolution Sessions and More
8. Due Process Hearings
9. Attorneys’ Fees Reimbursement
10. Appeals of Due Process Hearings
    • One vs. Two-Tiered States
    • State or Federal Court
    • Prevailing Party Fee Applications
11. Practical Tips for Opening A Special Education Law Office
12. Other Relevant Statutes: Section 504, FERPA, 1983, No Child Left Behind, and More

Matt Kaiser is a federal criminal defense attorney. He will teach a course entitled “Federal Criminal Practice” at Solo Practice University™.

Matt has defended people accused of almost every kind of federal crime including tax evasion, bribery, fraud, securities offenses, commodities offenses, campaign finance violations, and violating United States State Department export controls. He has helped people with government investigations and criminal charges.

Matt Kaiser is a magna cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was the Senior Articles Editor of The Georgetown Law Journal. Immediately following graduation, he clerked for The Honorable Catherine C. Blake on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. He was an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland. He has been an attorney at two major law firms in the District of Columbia – Williams & Connolly LLP and Zuckerman Spaeder LLP. Matt graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with departmental honors from The College of Wooster, and holds a Masters Degree in Philosophy from Tulane University.

Matt has written on a number of topics in criminal law and procedure. His publications have appeared in the Legal Times, The National Law Journal, and The Georgetown Law Journal. He is a member of the Edward Bennett Williams American Inn of Court, an invitation-only professional organization devoted to white collar criminal practice.

Matt is admitted to practice law in Maryland, Washington, D.C., the United States District Courts in Maryland and Washington, D.C., and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

To learn more, visit Matt’s website.

Syllabus – Federal Criminal Practice

1. An Overview of the Core Differences (in general; of course there are exceptions)
   • Massive sentences/higher stakes
   • Cases move more slowly
   • Congress is active creating more law; courts are creating more law in response
   • Larger prosecutorial organization; the U.S. Attorney’s Manual
   • More prosecutorial investment in a case up front
   • A heavier emphasis on written work
2. Federal Sentencing (this drives the train; we’ll start here)
   • The guidelines
     • Basic structure – the chart and the range
     • Offense level
       • The general approach
       • Loss amount
       • Grouping of separate offenses
     • Criminal History
       • The general approach
       • Misdemeanors
       • Timing issues from prior convictions
       • Career Offender and other problems for repeat players
     • Other things about your client
       • Cooperation – 5K1.1
       • Acceptance of Responsibility – 3E1.1
       • Almost everything else is “not normally relevant” – a tour of the rest of 5K
   • It gets more complicated – sentencing statutes
     • General issues with statutory provisions in sentencing
       • Interaction with the guidelines
       • Interaction with cooperation – 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e)
     • Mandatory minimums for Drug Offenses
       • The general approach
       • Safety Valve
     • 924(c)’s – Congress continues to frown on using guns to commit crimes
     • ACCA – Three strikes and a gun and you’re out for 15 years
     • 1028A – identity theft’s two year mandatory minimum
     • Child pornography sentencing provisions
   • It gets even more complicated – sentencing case law
     • The constitutional problem – Apprendi through Gall
     • Section 3553(a) and the guidelines – Booker in a nutshell
     • Why 3553(a) is your client’s best friend
3. Federal Jurisdiction – Why are we here anyway?
   • The interstate commerce power
     • Arson
     • VAWA and Morrison challenges
   • Enforcement provisions of the 13th and 14th Amendments
   • Extraterritorial jurisdiction
     • Antitrust
     • Traveling to do something bad
   • Intent based crimes after 9/11 – criminalizing photography with bad thoughts
4. Federal Venue
   • Constitutional issues – same state and district – is there a perfect crime out West?
   • Transfer of Venue motions – there’s no place like home
5. Procedure
   • Detention and the Bail Reform Act – Money can’t buy love, or, in federal court, freedom
   • The Grand Jury
     • Grant Jury secrecy
     • Quorum rules
     • Motions challenging grand jury practice, and why, generally, not to file them
   • Motions Practice – what to file and when
     • General considerations – clients like paper and it’s better to preserve the issue
     • Motions to dismiss the indictment
       • Constitutional challenges; especially void for vagueness
       • Failure to allege an offense
         • General approach
         • An example – double inchoate crimes
     • Multiplicity/duplicity
     • Motions for a bill of particulars
     • Motions to sever
     • Motions to suppress – hey, it’s just like state court!
     • Bruton
   • Considerations with motions hearings
     • Will you get one? (Franks issues; legal issues, etc.)
     • Should your client testify?
       • obstruction
       • client management
       • tipping off the United States
6. The Federal Criminal Trial
   • You don’t get to voir dire the jurors.
   • Federal Rules of Evidence 403 and 404(b)
   • The Jencks Act
     • Timing issues with Jencks and Brady
     • What counts as Jencks
7. Federal Sentencing
   • The PSR process
     • What’s in the report
     • How to manage the interview
     • Reviewing the PSR
     • Reigning in rogue probation officers
   • The sentencing memorandum
   • Client statements at sentencing
   • Watching the Assistant United States Attorney
8. The Criminal Justice Act
   • How to get on the panel
   • Thoughts on how to get cases once you’re on the panel
   • How to get paid for the panel work you do
     • The forms
     • Your billing practices

Tina M. Hilton is a Virtual Assistant with a passion for teaching and writing. She will teach a course entitled ‘A Solo’s Sidekick – The Virtual Assistant’ at Solo Practice University™.

Sole proprietor of Clerical Advantage Virtual Assistance Services, she specializes in providing services to legal professionals and business creatives, focusing strongly on social networking, blog and education marketing assistance.

An excellent multi-tasker, before becoming an entrepreneur she juggled being a single mother with her career as a title processor/real estate legal assistant all while attending school. She brings her professionalism and experience working in attorney’s offices and financial institutions to her own business and is committed to working together with her clients to assist with their success. A self proclaimed ‘girly-geek’ she loves technology and the fact that her business requires her to stay on the cutting edge.

When she’s not assisting clients, she’s committed to writing, teaching and tinkering with her website. She is a Contributing Editor at the Internet Magazine, Home Office Warrior and has written an e-book entitled “An Introduction to Virtual Assistance for Businesses”. In her desire to educate the business community about virtual assistance and the importance of online/social media marketing, she recently has been accepting speaking engagements on this important topic.

Dedicated to her industry she also offers her knowledge to new virtual assistants, both through participation in several industry forums and freely responding to e-mails and phone calls for help.

In her free time she enjoys creating her own gemstone jewelry, keeping up with her two children and occasionally can be found playing Rock Band with her son.

You can find the  class syllabus here.

First class will premiere August 3rd.

Stefanie N. Devery is a Transactional Attorney practicing in all areas of Real Estate Law including Mortgage Banking, Loan Modifications, Short Sales and Foreclosures. She will teach a course entitled ‘The Basics of a Real Estate Transaction’ at Solo Practice University™.

Stefanie is a graduate from American University in Washington D.C. earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Law and Society, and a graduate of Hofstra University School of Law earning her Juris Doctor. While attending Hofstra Law, Stefanie met her husband and current law partner, Brian S. Devery. Stefanie has interned for the Honorable Magistrate Arlene Lindsey, Eastern District of New York and prior to graduation and admittance to the Bar clerked at a medium size firm practicing in Real Estate, Bankruptcy and Matrimonial Law. Stefanie was admitted to practice before the courts of The State of New York in May of 2003.

Upon admittance to the Bar, Stefanie founded The Law Offices of Stefanie N. Devery, Esq. practicing in all aspects of Transactional Real Estate representing Mortgage Lenders, Buyers, Sellers and Title companies. Shortly thereafter, Stefanie and her husband Brian, who was also a practicing solo attorney, combined their respective law offices and formed Devery & Devery P.L.L.C. The firm practiced exclusively in all areas of Transactional Real Estate. Stefanie and her husband, they have taken part in thousands of Real Estate transactions. In 2009, Stefanie and her husband relocated and founded the new firm of The Devery Law Group, P.C.

Stefanie is a lifelong New Yorker, born and raised on the North Shore of Long Island where she currently resides with her husband and two small children. Stefanie is an avid scrapbooker and baker. Stefanie is active in internet networking and marketing.

After her first course ‘The Basics of a Real Estate Transaction’, Stefanie will be teaching more advanced courses in real estate law.

Read the syllabus here.

First class will begin July 27th.

Richard Litvin has been involved in helping graduates pass the Bar Exam for over 20 years. He will teach a bar preparation course at Solo Practice University™.

Professor Richard Litvin has been involved in helping graduates pass the Bar Exam for over 20 years. He founded Litvin’s Bar Tutorial in 1987, and Litvin’s Supplemental Bar Course in 1994. At Solo Practice University, Litvin plans to offer (1) a bar exam blog, (2) some video bar exam classes, (3) essay writing classes for first and second year law students, and (4) a blog exploring ideas for a law school “specializing” in preparing students for Solo and Small Practice.

Litvin’s Bar Tutorial was designed for and offered to students who were retaking the bar. His success with these students (based on extensive individual feedback on both MBE and Essays) attracted students from as far away as Alaska, California, Mississippi, and New Mexico, as well as every state in the Northeast. They came to CT, studied, and returned (mostly) to pass their state bars.

Litvin used his experience with repeaters to design and offer a course (not for credit) at Quinnipiac University School of Law, where he was a tenured Associate Professor. Litvin’s Supplemental Bar Course was provided by QU as a Supplement to BarBri for first time bar takers. Each year, students who attended Litvin’s supplemental classes as well as BarBri passed various state bars at over 95%. This course was offered on videotape by a number of other schools scattered around the U.S. with similar success for attendees.

Litvin has produced an original series of bar tutorial videos (soon to be on DVD) which provide 6-7 classes on each of the MBE subjects, covering both MBE and Essay formats. Litvin is also interested in designing a brick and mortar law school, from the ground up, “specializing” in educating students for Solo and General Practice.

Litvin has a B.A. from Dickinson College (1967), a J.D. from Temple (1975) and an LL.M. from Yale (1976). He clerked for Federal District Court Judge Edward Becker (1977), taught at Whittier Law School from 1977-1980, and at Quinnipiac University (and its predecessor) from 1980 to 2008. Although “retired” from Quinnipiac, he continues to offer his bar class to students at QU, as well as at Western New England School of Law, and Chapman University School of Law.

Litvin has presented his work on the bar at numerous conferences sponsored by the ABA and by AALS (for law professors and bar examiners) throughout the US. He also has been a guest speaker for the National Black Law Students Association. From 1994 until the present Litvin has devoted himself to his students by providing them with academic support and direction. Litvin acknowledges his greatest resource is his students who guide and inspire him regularly. One of his greatest resources is Susan Cartier Liebel, founder of this site, who turned him on to the beauty of Solo Practice.

Syllabus

• Introduction to Bar Exam. What to expect. How to prepare.
• Torts: Overview
• Contracts-Sales: Overview
• Evidence
• Property
• Crim Law & Procedure
• Constitutional Law
• Bar Essay Writing

T. Deon Warner is a transactional lawyer providing mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation and corporate legal services in Houston, Texas. He will teach a course on “Building a Successful Solo Mergers & Acquisitions Practice” at Solo Practice University™.

Deon has more than twenty five years experience in corporate law, including general securities law, initial public offerings, secondary registrations and roll up transactions, public and private mergers and acquisitions, and he also works closely with community development corporations in their development projects and financings. His client’s range from fortune 100 corporations to small family owned businesses and community development corporations. Deon began his career with Andrews & Kurth LLP where he was employed for eleven years in the corporate securities section, with the last five years, from 1992 to 1997, as a Partner at the firm. During his tenure at Andrews & Kurth, Deon was appointed by the Governor of Texas to the Texas State Securities Board, served one full term from 1991-1997 and served as chairman of the board from 1995 to 1997. Deon began his solo practice in 1997. He is a member of the Colorado and Texas bars, as well as a member of various state and local bar associations.

Deon has a BA in Economics from the University of Colorado (Boulder) and a Law Degree from Howard University School of Law. At Howard, he was a member of the Editorial Board and Book Review Editor of the Howard Law Journal and graduated 19th in his class. Deon was a law clerk in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas for the Honorable Gabrielle Kirk McDonald – 1984-86. He has published and lectured for state and local bar associations and for several local Universities on various legal topics, including securities law, buying and selling businesses, corporate law and legal ethics.

Deon has been active in many civic and community organizations in Houston, Harris County, Texas including, serving as president of the Houston Lawyers Association (HLA), president of Easy Risers Toastmasters Club, two terms as co-chair of the Texas Minority Counsel Program of the State Bar of Texas (TMCP) and a lead participant in the Houston Habitat for Humanity’s Settegast Project 2008. He also participated with and served on committees or boards with HLA, TMCP, The United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast, the Houston Area Urban League, Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Houston, Inc., National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – Houston Chapter, American Bar Association, National Bar Association, the Adopt a School Committee and Advancement of Minorities in the Legal Profession Committee of the Houston Bar Association.

Deon currently is a member of One Hundred Black Men – Houston Chapter, a board member of Neighborhood Recovery Community Development Corporation, and a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Colorado Bar Association, the Houston Bar Association, the Houston Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association and the National Bar Association.

To learn more about Deon, visit his law firm website.

John E. Harding is a family lawyer in Northern California. He will teach a course about family law at Solo Practice University™.

John E. Harding, JD, CFLS, is the principal of the law firm of Harding & Associates, with offices in Pleasanton, Walnut Creek, and San Francisco, California. He has been certified as a specialist in the practice of family law by The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization, and has maintained an active family law practice in Northern California since 1989. He is an experienced divorce lawyer and mediator with expertise in divorce, post-divorce, parenting, paternity, property division, support, pre-nuptial agreement litigation, and all other family law matters. In addition to an active family law litigation practice, he has also received extensive divorce mediation training, and holds a certificate in divorce mediation from the prestigious Northern California Mediation Center. He provides mediation services for couples, including traditional mediation with and without attorneys, case evaluation mediation, and parenting coordinator services.

Mr. Harding holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from St. Mary’s College and a Juris Doctor degree from the Golden Gate University School of Law. He is a member of the Family Law Sections of the American Bar Association and the California State Bar. He is also a member in good standing of the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists. He has written and lectured in the areas of civil litigation, family law, trial skills, case management, and legal technology and has appeared as an expert commentator for national and regional media including ABC News, Fox News, inTouch Magazine, Contra Costa Newspaper Group. He sits as a judge pro tem and settlement officer with the Alameda County Superior Court.

You can also read his blog, California Divorce Blawg.

Christopher G. Hill is a construction lawyer in Virginia. He will teach about effective risk management, collection and contract drafting techniques for construction professionals, along with some practice-building advice, at Solo Practice University™.

Chris is a construction lawyer at the Law Office of Christopher G. Hill, PC, author of Construction Law Musings, and a member of Virginia’s Legal Elite in Construction Law (PDF). He has more than ten years of extensive counseling and litigation experience, both inside and outside of the courtroom, during time spent at Meyer, Goergen & Marrs, P.C. and the Virginia Office of the Attorney General. He has successfully resolved cases at all levels of both the state and federal courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Since 2002, Chris’s practice has been devoted largely to representing contractors, subcontractors and material suppliers in all aspects of construction, including litigation. He has rendered assistance in all aspects of the industry including commercial/industrial, governmental and residential settings.

In particular, Chris has assisted his clients in,

• the filing and enforcement of mechanics liens,
• pursuing bond claims under the state and federal Miller Acts,
• pursuing and defending against breach of contract lawsuits—both in judicial and administrative realms
• compliance with administrative, safety and licensing regulations.

He also works extensively with contractors, engineers and architects in negotiating and drafting construction contracts and related documents.

As an active member of the Associated General Contractors of Virginia, Chris regularly presents to the AGC-VA membership on a variety of topics, ranging from occupational safety issues to changes in the law that affect the construction industry.

Chris also serves on the Associated General Contractors of America’s Contract Documents Committee where he has input into the content and structure of standard construction contracts that are widely used throughout the United States.

Chris’ experience in representing both private companies and one of the largest agencies of the Commonwealth of Virginia has given him knowledge of both the private and public aspects of legal representation. He has used this insight to give clients both practical and legally sound advice during their interactions with both private companies and state agencies.

In addition to his membership in the Virginia bar, Chris is admitted to practice before the U. S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U. S. Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia.

Linsey Krolik is a technology, media, and business lawyer. She will teach a course called Outsourced General Counsel at Solo Practice University™.

Linsey Krolik is a technology, media, and business lawyer and mom of three children (including a set of twins) in Silicon Valley, California. She has operated her solo law practice from her home since 2004, providing outsourced general counsel, technology and content licensing, and business formation services to a range of clients, from small businesses and start-up companies to established, large corporations. Her clients include a variety of businesses, including microprocessors, computer hardware, software, Internet, wireless, blog, and medical device companies. Before starting her solo practice, Linsey was Corporate Counsel for ARM, Inc., a United Kingdom-based intellectual property company. Prior to that, she worked in both legal and business roles for a variety of tech companies in the Silicon Valley, including Palm, Inc, OmniSky Corporation, and 3Com Corporation.

Linsey writes a blog called Whereas about legal issues in technology, as well as maintaining and contributing to several other blogs. She spoke at BlogHer’08 on the topic of legal issues with blogging in the “Taking Care of Business” session. Linsey holds a combination JD/MBA degree from Santa Clara University School of Law and Santa Clara University Leavy School of Business with a concentration in High Technology Law and has been a member of the California State Bar Association since 2002. Linsey is active in her community, serving as a board member for several local organizations.

Arnie Herz is a nationally recognized speaker, lawyer and blogger dedicated to helping people achieve optimal professional and personal success. He will teach a course Legal Sanity Career Strategies: Work Smart and Live Fully at Solo Practice University™.

Arnie brings 17 years of experience, insights and practical wisdom gained as a lawyer, mediator and business advisor to his work at Legal Sanity® Learning Programs, the training + development venture he launched in 2004.

In his unique and comprehensive programs, Arnie offers hands-on, interactive exercises and learning modules that empower participants to achieve unparalleled career and personal success.

Anchoring Arnie’s diverse offerings is the XE Factor® — his model of human energy exchange that considers how an issue, interaction or activity impacts individuals and groups on an energetic level — an energetic impact that directly influences and controls business results.

Through Legal Sanity® Learning Programs, Arnie teaches people to consistently harness the XE Factor to their advantage while avoiding unfavorable outcomes.

A highly skilled communicator and engaging presenter, Arnie’s passion for reaching and teaching others translates well across a range of media.

Legal Sanity® – Arnie’s popular blog featured in the Law.com network’s Legal Blog Watch — has a wide international audience and high visibility due to its rich content on optimizing the business of law.

Arnie’s leading-edge approach and ideas have been covered in prominent print publications in the United States, Canada and Australia. He has also made television appearances as an expert commentator and hosted his own radio show, the Legal Sanity Moment.

Jonathan Ginsberg practices Social Security disability law in Atlanta, Georgia. He will teach a course about setting up and thriving in your Social Security disability practice at Solo Practice University™.

A graduate of Tulane University College of Law in New Orleans, Jonathan has been a small firm lawyer for the entirety of his 22 year legal career, and has developed two separate law practices during that time. Jonathan’s Social Security Disability Practice involves representing claimants in applications for disability benefits before Social Security Administration adjudicators and administrative law judges throughout the state of Georgia.

Jonathan is a sustaining member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimant’s Representatives, and he regularly teaches continuing legal education courses about disability law and practice. In 2005, Jonathan published a “how to” book for consumers about the Social Security disability process called the Disability Answer Guide, and in 2006, he released the Child SSI Disability Answer Guide. He also publishes a widely read blog about Social Security disability called ssdAnswers.com and he hosts a disability podcast called ssdradio.com.

Jonathan also assists lawyers throughout the country with marketing efforts using web sites, blogs, social media and other Internet based technology. He believes strongly in education based marketing and he encourages his disability attorney colleagues to use their knowledge and experience to educate the public about applicable Social Security disability benefit programs.

Richard will teach a course on “unbundling legal services”, both on-line and off-line, with a focus on how to design an “unbundled Family Law practice” at Solo Practice University™

Richard operates a virtual law firm focused on family law based in Maryland from his home in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. He is also the founder and President of DirectLaw, Inc., a company that provides a virtual law firm platform to solos and small law firms.

He is a recognized expert on the delivery of legal services over the Internet. He is presently Co-Chair of the ELawyering Task Force of the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association and serves on the Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services of the ABA. Richard has written extensively on the subject of delivering legal services over the Internet and has written on the subject for the Law Practice Management Magazine of the ABA, the New York State Bar Association Journal, and other bar association journals. He maintains a blog on this subject of eLawyering and a separate web site on the Digital Lawyer.

Richard has taught at the University of Maryland School of Law, the District of Columbia School of Law, and Rutgers School of Law, courses in Computers and the Law and Law Practice Management. Richard is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law (J.D.), the University of Pennsylvania (M.S. in Organizational Development) and Lehigh University (B.A.) Richard is also a Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management.

Julie Tower-Pierce is an attorney, mom, writer and author. She will serve as both faculty and resource facilitating a workshop called, “Staying at Home, Staying in the Law” at Solo Practice University™.

Julie is an attorney, mom of three young children, writer and author of Staying at Home, Staying in the Law: A Guide to Remaining Active in the Legal Profession While Pursuing Your Dreams. Julie’s popular book is the ultimate companion for lawyers who dream about making career transitions or taking career detours to pursue dreams beyond the law, such as stay-at-home parenthood or entrepreneurial dreams, but fear that doing so means sacrificing the law and all they’ve achieved. The appeal of Staying at Home, Staying in the Law extends beyond ‘Mommy’ and ‘Daddy’ Lawyers and GenYers; it also caters to lawyers who have taken extended timeouts from the law and want back into the law on their own terms.

Julie earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Women’s Studies from Dalhousie University, and her J.D. and Masters Degree from Vermont Law School. She is admitted to practice in Vermont and the District of Columbia. She currently resides in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Until 2006, Julie worked as an associate attorney at the respected law firm of Tarrant, Marks & Gillies in Montpelier, Vermont. As an adjunct professor at Norwich University, a private military university, Julie has taught courses in Cybercrime and Cyberlaw and Courts and the Criminal Justice System, and served as a capstone advisor to justice administration graduate students. Her legal background includes work in the areas of business and privacy law, regulatory compliance and criminal defense. Along the way, she has gathered legal experience via “flexible” legal stints that have resulted in blissful work/life balance well-matched for raising family without the burden of overwhelming ‘professional or mommy guilt’ – though she admits that she still hasn’t found a 100% guilt-free path in the law and parenthood.

In law school, Julie served as Articles editor of the Vermont Law Review, as a senior staff editor of Vermont’s Journal of the Environment, and as a legal writing Dean’s Fellow. She has served on the editorial boards of the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyer and the Norwich University Journal of Information Assurance, and as a contributing editor to the SANS Business Law and Computer Security course. Julie’s freelance writing and legal/technology commentary have appeared in a number of publications including SANS NewsBites, Information Security Magazine, I AM Modern, the Vermont Law Review, the Vermont Bar Journal, and KIWI. Her essays have been syndicated by the McClatchy Group, appearing in online and print publications, such as the Miami Herald and the Charlotte Observer. She previously penned a regular legal/technology/business column in a Vermont business publication.

When Julie’s not chasing after her children, she spends much of her time writing and blogging about the law, technology, flexible lawyering and motherhood. Her blog, Darling Hill, what she calls a “stay at home, work from home, and part-time lawyer hangout,” reflects her passion for helping lawyers find their ideal work/life balance in the law and stay connected to the law while pursuing their dreams.

Greg Yaghmai is an attorney with significant experience in all aspects of litigation. He will teach trial techniques which can be applied in both the civil and criminal arena at Solo Practice University™.

Greg graduated with honors from The Citadel where he received his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. In 1997, he received his law degree from Cumberland School of Law.

For the first four and half of years of his legal career, Greg served as a Deputy District Attorney for the Jefferson County, Alabama District Attorney’s Office. By age 26 he tried his first death penalty case. He went on to try either solo or as lead counsel seven capital murder and six murder cases. He also had the benefit of being the first lawyer in Alabama to be certified by the Alabama State Troopers as a Traffic Homicide investigator. He obtained this after attending a two-week seminar, which required him to live in a closed military base with forty other police officers. He also had the unique experience of being provided alcohol in a controlled setting so he could be utilized by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s training academy in officers learning how to administer field sobriety tests.

He subsequently left the DA’s office to become a partner in a forty lawyer civil litigation firm. This firm concentrated mostly on civil defense work, but Greg continued to expand his plaintiff and criminal defense practice. He successfully defended an Alabama man charged in Heard County, Georgia for Sexual Abuse. Interestingly, his local counsel declared he was the best attorney in Heard County because he was the only attorney in Heard County. He also successfully defended a respected plastic surgeon that had been accused of sexual abuse by an employee. Greg also defended the civil case filed by the accuser. Greg also cites his one million dollar loss in a wrongful termination case as an invaluable learning experience.

In 2006, he co-founded Rutledge & Yaghmai. His partner Gene Rutledge has practiced for more than forty-five years. One of Greg’s goals was to reduce the number of cases handled to allow for more individual attention to each case. Rutledge & Yaghmai maintains a general litigation practice. Greg focuses on personal injury, business litigation, and criminal defense cases.

Greg has truly handled cases from all sides: criminal prosecution/defense and civil plaintiff/defense. Overall, Greg has tried more than seventy-five jury trials to conclusion. He has significant experience in using visual presentations and present day media applications in presenting cases to jury. His ultimate jury consultant is his wife, Brandi, who he met when she served on the jury of a rape/kidnapping case he tried.

Greg is licensed in all state and federal courts in Alabama. He is currently obtaining his license in Georgia.

Brooks Schuelke is a trial lawyer in Texas. He will teach a course about prosecuting and defending legal malpractice claims at Solo Practice University™.

Brooks Schuelke is an Austin, Texas trial lawyer with Perlmutter & Schuelke, LLP. Since becoming licensed in 1995, his practice has been almost exclusively limited to the representation of plaintiffs in legal malpractice and other litigation matters. During the course of his practice, Brooks has helped victims of legal malpractice achieve settlements and verdicts in excess of $10,000,000.00. He is also the author of the Texas Legal Malpractice Blog.

Brooks is also a die-hard University of Texas fan. His dad played baseball at the University of Texas, his mom attended the University of Texas, and Brooks received his J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law after receiving his B.B.A. from the University of Texas Business Honors Program. Brooks is also a member of the University of Texas System Chancellor’s Council.

Jay S. Fleischman is a bankruptcy lawyer in New York. He will teach a course about consumer bankruptcy law at Solo Practice University™.

Jay is a co-founder of Bankruptcy Law Network, as well as the current President of the organization. Jay is a bankruptcy lawyer in New York, where he runs Fleischman Consumer Law Center, a law firm dedicated to protecting consumers from abuses at the hands of mortgage companies, collection agents, and creditors.

Jay is a frequent lecturer at national as well as local bar association groups on such topics as consumer bankruptcy, violations of the discharge in bankruptcy, debt collection abuse, foreclosure defense and technology and office management.

Jay was the first lawyer in New York to get the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to rule – in multiple cases – that the refusal of a creditor to update a credit report after bankruptcy to show the debt as being discharged and having a $0 balance was a violation of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. In the cases of Torres v. Chase Bank USA, NA, Russell v. Chase Bank USA, NA and Gilyard-McKenzie v. HSBC Bank USA, NA the courts agreed that consumers had the right to have their credit reports properly updated.

Jay is also a member of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (“NACBA”) as well as of the National Association of Consumer Advocates. He has been the New York State co-Chairperson for NACBA for over two years.

Jay is a lifelong New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn. His office is designed to make the most of technology. That doesn’t just mean he uses the Internet and send e-mail – it means his entire office is virtual. His team is scattered around the country, coming together to work on projects that call for specialized attention.

Richard Maseles practices bankruptcy and debtor-creditor law for the Missouri Department of Revenue. He will teach a course about “Real World” Legal Research at Solo Practice University™.

Richard Maseles specializes in collecting past-due taxes from multinational corporations and (formerly) high-net wealth individuals through the bankruptcy process. He has a broad background in debtor-creditor law, both in prior private practice and as editor for the State Bar of Texas’ Texas Collections Manual.

In twenty-plus years’ law practice, Richard has litigated real estate, probate, personal injury, and even admiralty cases. He also found time to spend half of his career (to date) practicing legal research, writing, and editing for the Texas Bar, National Legal Research Group, the Missouri Office of State Courts, and LexisNexis. He is admitted to the Texas and Missouri Bars as well as assorted (but never sordid) federal courts. He also has outdated certifications in pipeline welding and operation of cranes of up to 80 tons’ capacity.

Richard will teach a course called “Real World” Legal Research discussing how ‘real lawyers’ do (or should do) legal research, how to be a smart legal research consumer, and show you how sound legal research will shape your effective oral and written advocacy.

To learn more about Attorney Maseles, read his guest post on Build A Solo Practice, LLC.

James Chartrand is a leading copywriting, branding, online marketing and blogging expert. He will teach a course about business branding, copywriting and blogging at Solo Practice University™.

James is a sought-after copywriter, branding expert and small business consultant. He owns Men with Pens, a website content and design business operated entirely online. Leveraging his expertise in branding and online marketing, James has propelled Men with Pens to become one of the most widely recognized brands on the internet.

After more than a decade in the corporate world, James chose to employ his diverse expertise in business, psychology, marketing, branding, copywriting, web design, and storytelling to help solo professionals and small business owners turn dreams and concepts into thriving ventures.

Using his skills, experience and training, James teaches his clients the critical and deeper lessons of establishing trust and creating connections with their customers. The resulting success clients achieve from James’ assistance quickly turns them into brand evangelists.

His passion for helping solo professionals work less, earn more and do work they love led him to co-author The Unlimited Freelancer, a guide that teaches best business practices to freelancers and entrepreneurs so they can enjoy their self-employment and benefit from its unlimited potential.

James is also a featured blogger at Copyblogger, the leading copywriting site on the internet read daily by nearly 50,000 people. His keen ability and knowledge of successful copywriting and branding techniques have resulted in him becoming a well-known go-to resource for many aspiring professionals and businesses.

Clients rely on James’ eagle-eye expertise to develop branding, content, marketing, design, and business strategies that help them to impact their target market. He is a strong advocate of teaching people how to have a better business and makes it a personal mission to provide them with necessary tools to achieve their goals.

To learn more about James, visit his website at Men with Pens.