Summertime is officially here and I don’t know about you but it’s been hot and humid!  But weather aside, classes are definitely on-going over at SPU and you can enjoy from the comfort of your computer!

June brought us a number of new classes including:

Chris Hill’s lesson on Legal Issues with Green Building in Construction Practice 101. And Congratulations to Chris who has officially gone solo as of July 1!!

In the Creating Online Video classroom Gerry Oginski posted How To Use YouTube To Drive Pre-Qualified Leads To Your Website

As always, there is a ton of new information over at Ed Poll’s LawBiz Management classroom, check out Check Clearing Policies, Technology Malpractice, Lateral Moves, A Rant Against Law Schools and Marketing Plan 101. And we’d also like to give a well-deserved plug to Ed’s new book – Growing Your Law Practice In Tough Times

Marketing is the topic of Class 6 in Motorcycle Injury Law also. Adam Gee discusses Marketing to Bikers: Developing a Motorcycle Practice

Gordon Firemark has some helpful information about using Virtual Law Office Technology from an Entertainment Law perspective. Gordon also posted Film Financing: 6 Basic ways films get financed. And congratulations to Gordon who just announced he now an adjunct professor at Southerwestern Law School’s Biederman Institute on Entertainment Law in their new ‘online’ LLM program.

In the Real World Legal Research classroom Richard Maseles has provided a mini-lesson, The Power of Stories, Found in Unexpected Places

Stephanie Kimbro has new material up at Virtual Law practice, about Offering Individual Consultations. SPU Students can now schedule free 30 minute consultations on how to set up a virtual law practice!

Lesson 5 of Fixing Your Fees, Fixing Your Practice is about Risk, Mistakes, and Ethics from Jay Shepherd

Mark Merenda shared Episodes 1 and 2 of the SmartTalk Podcast at Marketing for Lawyers

Social Security Disability Hearings (Part 4) is the latest class in Creating A Social Security Disability Practice from Jonathan Ginsberg

Lesson 2 of Landlord Tenant Law from Kira Fonteneau is Surveying the Legal Landscape

Brian Herrington provided Lesson 7, The Class Action Fairness Act, in the Class Action Law classroom.  And congratulations to Brian for being one of the class action lawyers representing fisherman in the Gulf Oil Spill disaster.  It is one case he has told me he wished wasn’t a reality because of what is happening on the gulf coast and all those devastated.  SPU students, however, do get the benefit of hearing about this case (as permissible) live in his classes.

Kimberly Alderman discusses Services in Class 3 of Freelance Lawyering 101. This class is both timely and highly beneficial to our students. And with the wonders of technology, we get her classes recorded in Italy as this is where she is spending her summer while servicing her clients, too!

Fully Completed Courses at Solo Practice University (which are available to you 24/7) are:

• Family Law Basics -  John Harding
• Appellate Practice – D. Todd Smith
• Productivity Bootcamp: Time Management for Lawyers – Bill Jawitz
• Build a Successful Solo Mergers & Acquisitions Practice – T. Deon Warner
• A Solo’s Sidekick – The Virtual Assistant – Tina Marie Hilton
  Value Pricing For the Legal Profession – Ron Baker
• Personal Injury 101: The Nuts and Bolts of Handling Accident Cases – James Reed
• Federal District Court Practice – Dave Donoghue
• Prosecuting and Defending Legal Malpractice Claims – Brooks Schuelke
• Clash of the Titans: Can Lawyers and Journalists get Along? – Paramjit Mahli

Most Read Blog Posts on Build A Solo Practice@SPU for this past month were:

• Always Pay Your Referral Fees. Always.
• Marketing Defined – It’s Not A Dirty Word
• Should You Create a Niche Practice (Part 1) & (Part 11)
• Can We Trust Anyone Anymore? Can You Be Trusted?

We’d also love to share another couple of SPU student blog posts from this past month:

• Lurie Daniel Favors gives a too real example of what can happen when Mr. and Mrs. Big-Spender Meet Reality
• Krista Robertson educates on  Child Support Basics

Also make sure you tune in in July for Nikki Merhpoo Jacobson’s Guest Lecture onHow to Create an Immigration Practice on July 27th.

Much is going to be happening at SPU this summer as we continue to bring on new faculty, grow our community, take the networking online to offline in SPU meetups and much more….

Cheers!