Going Solo in a New Economy
Recorded Teleseminar – Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Presented by Susan Cartier Liebel and Carolyn Elefant
You can now get this popular free teleseminar, ‘Going Solo in a New Economy‘ with Susan Cartier Liebel and Carolyn Elefant delivered via e-mail along with your free 51 page e-book, ‘Going Solo; Confessions and Inspirations’.
Going Solo in a New Economy
Like many other industries, the legal profession is being forced to make changes in a 21st century economy. Since 2008, law firms shed 10,000 associates, and these jobs aren’t likely to ever return. Partnership track, if the concept still exists, lasts decade or more – and even making partner no longer guarantees job security. With the economy in a tailspin, law firms, corporations and even government agencies are cutting training and mentoring programs, leaving new lawyers to fend for themselves.
Whether you’re a new grad or an experienced biglaw partner, you’ve got to take charge of your legal career. Even if you are currently employed, shouldn’t you have a plan ‘B’? What better way to do this than by starting your own law firm or creating a plan for one should the other shoe drop? By now, you’ve probably heard, or even bought into, many of the myths associated with starting a practice – but very few of the positives. We’ll bust those myths and show you how a starting a law firm or creating a plan ‘B’ can help you reposition yourself in this new economy. Topics we’ll cover include:
- Why starting a law firm doesn’t have to be your first career choice; but it may be your only career choice
- Why you don’t need a years worth of savings to start a law firm; nor may you have the luxury of a years worth of savings
- Why you don’t need a ‘sales-y’ personality to succeed as a solo; you just have to want to succeed as a lawyer
- How to turn perceived disadvantages like lack of office space or shyness into selling points for your law firm; working with your personality instead of against it
- How you can get clients even if you don’t have any experience; (now that should send some jurassic lawyers into a tail-spin)
- Why going solo doesn’t mean being alone
About Us:
Susan Cartier Liebel is the author of Build A Solo Practice, LLC and creator of Solo Practice University, a web-based educational and professional networking community for lawyers and law students populated by like-minded and similarly situated professionals. All are being educated by outstanding faculty on how to actually create and grow their practices from the substantive and nuts and bolts of specific practice areas to marketing, technology, law office management, productivity, public relations and much, much more. She is also is a columnist for numerous legal publications and former adjunct professor at Quinnipiac University School of Law well-known for her class ‘How To Hang A Shingle Right Out of Law School.” Having opened her practice right out of law school with two others in 1995, she kinda gets what it means to open a practice with ‘no experience’. Since 2007 she has concentrated exclusively on consulting lawyers across the country on how to be their own boss.
Carolyn Elefant is the creator of MyShingle.com, the first and longest running blog and online resource on solo and small firm practice and author of Solo by Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be, the first comprehensive guide to solo practice published in the last five years. Carolyn is a proud solo; she started her firm in 1993 after a layoff left her with no other options. Fifteen years later, she continues to practice at the Law Offices of Carolyn Elefant, specializing in energy law, emerging renewables, appeals and select 1983 civil rights matters. Carolyn is also part of the talented faculty at Solo Practice University teaching a very important and timely course for today’s solo practitioner ‘Collaboration’.
If you have any questions, please e-mail Susan (at) solopracticeuniversity.com
