April was a month of great information here on SPU. If you missed any of these new classes and guest lectures, be sure to check them out soon!

• In the Creating Online Video for Attorneys class, Gerry Oginski shared How Video Will Make You Stand Out From the Crowd and Nude Snorkelling
• Class 5, The Trial of a Motorcycle Case, was posted by Adam Gee in Motorcycle Injury Law
• James Chartrand shared plenty of expertise with classes on How to Prepare for Branding Expert and What’s Your Client’s Biggest Fear? at Pen and Perception.
• There was a guest post published on Stephanie Kimbro’s Virtual Law Practice classroom, When One Thing Leads To Another…Do The Dots Connect To You?
• In the Business Law Classroom lesson 3 went up, on the topic of Corporate Governance and Management, from faculty member Trippe Fried
• Lesson 3 of the Fixing Your Fees, Fixing Your Practice course was posted by Jay Shepherd. In this lesson Jay shares more about setting prices and the concerns that can arise during that process
• We also had Ronald Baker discussing How Do I Actually Implement Value Pricing? in a bonus FAQ over at The Solo Practice of the Future
• Ed Poll was busy as always. You’re sure to find some great advice if you listen in on the Coach’s Corner teleconference with Lurie Daniel-Favors. Also in the LawBiz Management classroom you’ll find Q3 2009,The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same, Network Technology Guidelines, and Lessons Learned
• The Appellate Practice and Procedure class has concluded and is available to all students 24/7, but we were lucky to receive some bonus information from D. Todd Smith on E-Filing in Appellate Courts. As with all concluded classes, you can listen to them in their entirety 24/7 as well as connect with the instructor.
• Chris Hill posted Class 9 in Construction Practice 101, Green Building & Risk Management
• Over at Trial Techniques Lesson 8 was posted by Greg Yaghmai, Last-minute Trial Preparation
• Lesson 8 in Introduction to Special Education Law was about Due Process Hearings, courtesy of Jennifer Laviano
• Mark Merenda discussed the Common Marketing Mistakes Attorneys Make for Lesson 13 in Marketing for Lawyers
• We have plenty of new material from Richard Maseles in the Real World Legal Research classroom, including WestlawNext and the Semantic Web, a mini-lesson on Real-World Use for Google Scholar, and Social Legal Research is Not an Oxymoron
• Paramjit L. Mahli Shared a recap of the 2010 Legal Marketing Association Conference in Denver in Clash of The Titans – Lawyers and Journalists Can We Get Along?
• The very first class is up at Freelance Lawyering 101. Kimberly Alderman discusses Risks and Rewards of becoming a Freelance Lawyer
  
• Class 13 of Introduction to Products Liability Litigation is about More Discovery Issues, from Craig Niedenthal
• Victor Medina gives us Lesson 6, Mac OS X Walkthrough, in Macs In the Law Office
• Also up was Session 12 of Creating A Social Security Disability Practice, Social Security Disability Hearings (Part 3) by Jonathan Ginsberg
• Our Guest Lecturer, Ron Fox, did an outstanding job in his teleseminar ‘Transitioning from Big Law To…..?”

We also just introduced a new class to be taught by Kira Fonteneau called ‘Landlord/Tenant Law’ which is an excellent practice area for solos. Classes start May 10th.

And on May 10th we will also be announcing the winner of the ‘Proud To Be Solo’ Scholarship Contest Winner. It was a nail-biter until the end.  Thank you to all our faculty who had the unenviable job of selecting the Grand Prize winner.  It was a difficult task because ALL the entries were so good and all the entrants so deserving.

Stay tuned! The month of May promises to be jam-packed as well!