Surviving the Changes: Tips for Managing Your Solo and Small Firm Practice
Why Attend?
Managing a law firm or a solo practice can be daunting, especially in today’s economy. Many firms, even small ones, have shed lawyers and staff and have postponed bringing on new hires. The Internet and technology have changed the way lawyers practice, and new competitors challenge the traditional services that lawyers have always offered. Traditional practice structures are crumbling and lawyers are seeking to reinvent how they do business.
How can a solo or small firm practice meet – and beat – these challenges? This timely and practical audio webcast will review the changing practice landscape and give you tips and techniques that have made solo and small firm practices not only survive, but also thrive.
Join the experienced panel for this all-new program and learn:
The challenges of managing a solo and firm practice today
Using technology (existing and new) to improve your delivery of legal services
How to market and compete as a solo or firm in a changing legal marketplace
Keeping your finances in order and measuring successful practice outcomes
How to evaluate, motivate, and keep your most valuable personnel
Alternative billing – what does it mean for every lawyer and law firm
Recent, innovative measures taken by solos and law firms of all sizes to ensure their success and growth
Have a question for the panel? This interactive seminar will give you the opportunity to submit questions to the faculty before and/or during the program. In addition, all registrants receive a set of downloadable course materials and free access to the archived online program later.
Faculty
Vedia Jones-Richardson, Partner, Olive & Olive, P.A., Durham, North Carolina; Chair-Elect, ABA Law Practice Management Section.
Mark Robertson, Partner, Robertson and Williams, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Past Chair, ABA Law Practice Management Section; Co-author, Winning Alternatives to the Billable Hour, Third Edition (ABA 2008).
Richard G. Ferguson (Moderator), Partner, Lynass, Ferguson, and Shoctor, Business Lawyers, Edmonton, Alberta; Past Chair, Canadian Bar Association CLE Committee and the Law Practice Management and Technology Section; Past Chair, Canadian Bar Association Law Practice Management Section (North Alberta Branch); Canadian Liaison, ABA Law Practice Management Section.
Total 60-minute hours of instruction: 1.5; total 50-minute hours, 1.8 in states that accredit telephone seminars and webcasts in law practice management. Note:The following MCLE jurisdictions do not accredit law practice management programs: AL, DE, IN, NH, NC, OK, TX (varies by topic), and VA. For more information, please contact TeamMCLE@ali-aba.org.
Times
Eastern 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Central 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
Mountain 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 noon
Pacific 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Alaska 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Hawaii 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
