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How Career Counselors Can Help Law Students Go Solo

Mar 5, 2011 in Audio, Law School Innovation, News

On January 27th of this year I had the distinct privilege of educating more than (70)seventy (113) one hundred and thirteen career counselors on how they can help their law students and grads who either want to go solo or feel they have no option but to go solo.  I thank Amanda Ellis of Amanda [...]

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New Look. New Features. More CLE.

Mar 1, 2011 in News

In Anticipation of Our Second Birthday…. This past week we implemented some exciting design and function upgrades to the Solo Practice University® website. We also restructured our tuition plans and added “Unlimited Online CLE” to the quarterly tuition plan. Read more below about what’s new. New Pricing Structure, More CLE We restructured our tuition for [...]

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Meet New SPU Columnist – Jeff Rutledge, Esq.

Feb 18, 2011 in Announcements, Guest Bloggers

Meet new SPU Columnist, Jeff Rutledge. I’ve ‘known’ Jeff for almost four years via the internet, communicating back and forth, and he was one of the first to grab one of the more than 100 lifetime scholarships we gave away at SPU prior to opening back in 2009. I’ve watched his journey as a Non [...]

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Important Announcement, SPU Classes in January…and Much More

Feb 8, 2011 in Announcements

Announcement We want to give you a heads up! Within the next week or so Solo Practice University will not only be upgraded and sporting a new hairdo, we’ll also be introducing a new tuition structure.  If you’ve been considering enrolling, you may want to lock in the current tuition today.  With more than 700 [...]

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NYSBA Acknowledges Times Are Changing – An Action Plan

Feb 7, 2011 in Demographic/Economic Trends, News

This is an excerpt from the Future of the Legal Profession Report commissioned by Stephen Younger, President of the New York State Bar Association.  It was meant to address the effects of the economic downturn as well as other issues impacting the legal profession: “….private practice, one of the key engines of the profession, is [...]

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What’s New – Smart Marketing with Mark Merenda

Feb 1, 2011 in Announcements, Audio, Marketing, What's New?

We are kicking off a new series of free audio guest lectures at Solo Practice University. These lectures will feature our faculty experts discussing what’s new in their own practice areas or their specific areas of business expertise. The audio series is simply called ‘What’s New?’ We’ll feature a new guest lecture approximately every other [...]

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What Obligation Does The ABA Have To Law Students?

Jan 25, 2011 in News

That’s a loaded question and I’m sure it got your attention.  I don’t have a the full answer but I know they can’t claim they have no clue as to the crisis. In November of 2009  The ABA Commission on the Impact of the Economic Crises on the Profession and Legal Needs presented a report [...]

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Meet New SPU Columnist – Suzanne Meehle

Jan 17, 2011 in Announcements, Guest Bloggers

From Big Law To Solo Suzanne Meehle, Esq. We are very excited to add another new monthly columnist to our roster of great monthly columnists which includes Deborah Bruce, Rachel Rodgers and Jack Whittington.  Suzanne Meehle has had a very typical but not often discussed journey in her legal career.  She is a second career [...]

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So Long 2010. Hello 2011!

Jan 10, 2011 in Announcements

I have been uncharacteristically quiet on this blog since the beginning of the New Year.  I wrote post after post but never hit the publish button. Sometimes you can have so much to say about so many things, your fingers type so fast and yet the end result is just not quite ready for prime [...]

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Faculty Announcement – Caren Schwartz

Dec 13, 2010 in Announcements, Faculty Announcements

Caren Schwartz is a trainer, consultant and expert problem solver. She will teach a course called “Introduction to Billing and Accounting” at Solo Practice University®. Caren Schwartz founded Time & Cents Consultants, LLC, to help professionals select, install and get the most out of their software. Her philosophy is that companies can save time and [...]

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