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100 Lifetime Scholarships Awarded To SPU Within Three Weeks!

Monday, September 8th, 2008

This is SO exciting and immensely gratifying.

David and I wanted to start building the Solo Practice University™  community by awarding 100 free scholarships to current law students who have expressed a sincere interest in going solo.  It was fairly easy to find them because Solo Practice University E-zine™  has more than 1000 active subscribers and over 200 of those subscribers identified themselves as students.  By broadcasting our message through the e-zine to the ’students’ it was easy to hand out a significant number of the scholarships.

Then we brought our offer to the 800 subscribers of the Solo Practice University™  blog because, again, you as a subscriber have expressed sincere enthusiasm for the mission of Solo Practice University™ .  Finally, the offer was announced to my loyal Build A Solo Practice, LLC™ subscribers.

Within three weeks 100 Lifetime Scholarships to SPU have been awarded!

By providing these scholarships we are reinforcing that our mission at Solo Practice University™  is truly about helping those lawyers who want to succeed in creating and growing their own solo legal practice.  By granting these scholarships we are helping the recipients overcome many of the traditional hurdles encountered by providing outstanding education, community and support.

The scholarships were handed out to students across all law school tiers, states and countries.  The majority went to students currently enrolled in U.S.  law schools.  However, we have scholarship students in New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Africa, China, India and Canada. Their stories are the same.  There is no support in law school for those who wish to go solo and what we are providing is ’sorely needed.’  And as many said, ‘Solo Practice University™  is filling a void’.

For those who have applied for scholarship, we will be notifying you shortly.  Please make sure you put susan (at) solopracticeuniversity.com in your approved e-mail so you are sure to receive the good news as well as further instructions.  And please make sure you sign up to receive the e-mail updates from Solo Practice University™  or subscribe to the RSS if you haven’t done so already.

We would also like to acknowledge those who just graduated and took the bar exam.  We received your  requests asking if you were eligible given you are caught in limbo between taking the bar and waiting on results.  It was a tough decision but we had to draw the line at ‘currently in law school.’  Know that we are keeping you in mind when figuring out our program offerings.  So stay tuned.

Again, thank you to all who applied. Your enthusiasm for what we are trying to create just makes us work that much harder to bring you an amazing experience :-)

Current Law Students Eligible for Lifetime Scholarships at SPU

Monday, August 25th, 2008

On August 20th we broadcast a special message to subscribers of our Solo Practice University™ E-zine who identified themselves as ’students’:

Perks of Being A Law Student (And Subscribed To This E-zine)

There are some perks to being a law student!

When you subscribed to this e-zine,  you identified your status as that of a ’student’.  And I am all about helping law students.

If you have been following our progress at  Solo Practice University™ then you know we are building a revolutionary new web-based educational and professional networking community for lawyers and law students.

Here comes the perk.  We need you to help us private beta test the site.  And as a thank you for helping us to private beta test the site, you will be able to enroll at Solo Practice University™ tuition-free….for as long as you remain a practicing lawyer.

We haven’t announced to the general public yet that Solo Practice University™ will be an extremely high value, low tuition membership site, but we’re pretty confident most readers have already figured this out :-)
But that won’t be an issue for those who help us private beta test because they will be on ‘full’ scholarship for being the earliest adopters.

So, if you have a genuine interest in going solo, please send me a confidential e-mail at susan (at) solopracticeuniversity.com  confirming:

  • your law school status;
  • your law school;
  • whether you remain sincerely interested in going solo;
  • why going solo is your chosen route for practicing your profession;
  • how you think Solo Practice University™ can help you achieve your goals;
  • your personal e-mail address AND your school e-mail address (both required).

We will make available 100 scholarships to current law students.
This means you will be starting your 1L, 2L or 3L  (or 4L if you are part time) year at law school in September 2008.

If you know of others who may want to participate, please let them know this opportunity exists and to send me an e-mail at susan (at) solopracticeuniversity.com with the requested information.

We have 37 24 10 scholarships left (as of 12:00 p.m. 8/31)

If you a current law student, or someone you know is,  and are sincerely interested in going solo and would benefit from a lifetime scholarship to Solo Practice University™, please send me an e-mail answering all the  questions asked in the e-zine and listed above…. as soon as possible. We are limiting our lifetime scholarships to 100.  The next round of private beta testing will begin shortly.

Yours truly,
Susan