Jay Foonberg
Author of How to Start and Build a Law Practice, a founder of the ABA Law Practice Management Section and a Harrison Tweed Award recipient.
FACULTY SINCE 2009
Past faculty
Lawyers educating lawyers was the whole idea. SPU's faculty pages list 87 instructors and guest lecturers, most of them practicing attorneys teaching what they did every day.
Bios reflect the time each person taught at SPU.
- 87
- instructors and guest lecturers
- 1,259
- published lessons
On building a practice
5
Carolyn Elefant
Creator of the MyShingle blog, author of Solo by Choice and a 2010 ABA Journal Legal Rebel.
TAUGHT AT SPUCollaboration and Creating Your Own Associations · 15 lessons
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Ed Poll
Principal of LawBiz Management and a member of the ABA Law Practice Management Section council.
Jay Shepherd
Ran a Boston employment firm that replaced the billable hour with fixed pricing.
Ronald J. Baker
Founder of the VeraSage Institute and author of Pricing on Purpose.
On technology and the future of practice
8
Richard Granat
Founder of DirectLaw, a 2009 ABA Journal Legal Rebel and recipient of the ABA's Louis M. Brown Lifetime Achievement Award for Legal Access.
Stephanie Kimbro
Author of Virtual Law Practice, a Stanford Law School Center on the Legal Profession fellow and founder of a virtual law office platform acquired in 2009.
Steven Teppler
Holder of six content authentication patents and co-chair of an ABA committee on e-discovery and digital evidence.
Donna Chesteen
Spent two decades in software engineering, including at Symantec, before becoming a lawyer.
Conrad Saam
Founder of the legal marketing agency Mockingbird, whose SEO strategy earlier drove Avvo's growth.
Jared Correia
CEO of Red Cave Law Firm Consulting and host of the Legal Toolkit podcast on Legal Talk Network.
TAUGHT AT SPULaw practice management, from 2015
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David Schnurman
Founder of the online CLE provider Lawline.
TAUGHT AT SPUBuilding Blocks for Successful Entrepreneurship · 7 lessons
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Jordan Furlong
Legal industry analyst and Honorary Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management.
Practice areas
8
Scott O'Sullivan
Colorado personal injury lawyer since 1996, founder of the O'Sullivan Law Firm and author of Motorcycle Law.
TAUGHT AT SPUAdvanced Personal Injury Practice · 7 lessons
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Katherine Frye
North Carolina Board Certified Specialist in Family Law and founder of Frye Law Offices, P.A.
TAUGHT AT SPUChild Custody · 8 lessons
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D. Todd Smith
Board certified in civil appellate law in Texas, founder of the Smith Law Group and former clerk to Texas Supreme Court Justice Raul A. Gonzalez.
TAUGHT AT SPUAppellate Practice and Procedure · 14 lessons
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Stacey M. Washington
Michigan DUI and criminal defense lawyer, in practice since 1987, and a former DUI and criminal prosecutor for the City of Ann Arbor.
TAUGHT AT SPUAdvanced DUI Defense · 7 lessons
Profile → Kelly Phillips Erb
Tax lawyer, shareholder in the Erb Law Firm and author of the taxgirl.com blog, which the ABA Journal named one of the best legal blogs.
Anne-Marie Rábago
Tax lawyer for individuals and small businesses, with an LL.M. in Taxation from Northwestern and first place in the ABA Law Student Tax Challenge's LL.M. division.
Vonda Vandaveer
Immigration and international business lawyer in the Washington, D.C. area who worked at the U.S. Embassies in Kabul and Sarajevo.
Celeste H.G. Boyd
Yale Law School graduate and freelance attorney for solo practitioners, law firms, in-house counsel and nonprofits.
All faculty, A–Z
87 instructors and guest lecturers- Will Bachand
- Ronald J. Baker
- Nora Riva Bergman
- Bob Berlin
- Toby Bloomberg
- Celeste H.G. Boyd
- Michael Brown
- Bob Burg
- Kevin Camden
- David Carson
- James Chartrand
- Donna Chesteen
- Deborah L. Cohen
- Jared Correia
- Stefanie N. Devery
- Brian S. Devery
- Joe Donnini
- R. David Donoghue
- Carolyn Elefant
- Gordon Firemark
- Jay S. Fleischman
- Kira Fonteneau
- Jay Foonberg
- Ron Fox
- Trippe S. Fried
- Katherine Frye
- Jordan Furlong
- Marc Garfinkle
- Adam M. Gee
- Daniel Gershburg
- Jonathan Ginsberg
- Bruce Godfrey
- Deborah Gonzalez
- Richard Granat
- Elizabeth Granoff
- Omar Ha-Redeye
- John E. Harding
- Brian K. Herrington
- Arnie Herz
- Christopher G. Hill
- Tina M. Hilton
- Jon W. van Horne
- Shauna Itri
- Sonia R. Jarvis
- Justin R. Key
- Stephanie L. Kimbro
- Melody Kramer
- Linsey Krolik
- Liz Lamar
- Jennifer Laviano
- Susan Cartier Liebel
- Richard Litvin
- Paramjit L. Mahli
- Richard Maseles
- Roman Matatov
- Victor Medina
- Suzanne Meehle
- Mark Merenda
- Craig Niedenthal
- John O’Connor
- Scott O'Sullivan
- Gerry Oginski
- Ed Poll
- Victoria Pynchon
- Anne-Marie Rábago
- Anne Reed
- James B. Reed
- Conrad Saam
- Victoria Santoro
- David Schnurman
- Brooks Schuelke
- Caren Schwartz
- Jay Shepherd
- D. Todd Smith
- Patti S. Spencer
- Martha Sperry
- Steven Teppler
- Julie Tower-Pierce
- Brett J. Trout
- Vonda Vandaveer
- Debra Vey Voda-Hamilton
- T. Deon Warner
- Stacey M. Washington
- John Watts
- Allison Wood
- Diane Wyzga
- Greg Yaghmai