Sentences with phrase «solo and small firm practitioners»

As American Bar Association President Linda Klein traveled the country to meet with attorneys from dozens of states just before she took office, she noticed a common theme in her conversations with solo and small firm practitioners.

All in all, the Jump - Start Your Law Practice conference gives you the rare opportunity to learn from solo and small firm practitioners who are among the leaders in their field.

While this is true for all attorneys, this is of particular importance for solo and small firm practitioners who often manage all aspects of their law firms themselves.

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Indeed, less than 50 % of all self - identified solo and small firm practitioners are members of any ABA Section, lending further concern that those practitioners will have no organized voice to speak for them in the future.

The American Bar Association Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division honored our longtime friend, Jeffrey M. Allen with its 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes the efforts and accomplishments of outstanding solo and small firm practitioners as well as bar leaders and associations.

Despite its recent trouble with some lawyers, according to the July 2009 ABA Journal, hundreds of solo and small firm practitioners are turning to the online classifieds site as a low - cost, guerilla technique to advertise their services.

We discussed the genesis of the new site, built to help solo and small firm practitioners to manage their leads and intake, how it works, and its upcoming launch in late September.

Among other things, Ed explains why being open to the idea of transitioning to value - based billing is so important for solo and small firm practitioners:

Although the impetus to develop technology - based e-discovery software may have originated in big law, it also affects solo and small firm practitioners.

Solo and small firm practitioners are busy.

Its mission is to serve as a guide to the events, issues, resources and services that benefit solo and small firm practitioners across the USA and around the world.

Lawyers Weekly USA reports on the proposal to cut funding for the ABA's Standing Committee on Solo and Small Firm Practitioners: ABA May Eliminate Funding for Small - Firm Committee.

Shortly after I wrote that, the ABA circulated an op - ed written by Greco, America's Main Street Lawyers, in which he discusses ways the ABA is working to better serve solo and small firm practitioners.

The Division now elects three delegates to the ABA House of Delegates, our policy - making body, and these delegates will bring the perspective of solo and small firm practitioners to issues that affect the legal profession and their place in it, giving solo and small firm lawyers a voice and a vote.

Its mission is to serve as a guide to the events, issues, resources and services that benefit solo and small firm practitioners across the USA and -LSB-...]

The issues that large firms are facing — large corporate clients wising up to the abuses of the billable hour, competition from international mega-firms — are not likely to affect the vast majority of solo and small firm practitioners.

Jayne: Practice management tools offer a huge opportunity for solo and small firm practitioners to manage their client communications, case progress, projects, and billing.

Carolyn's remarks in the video focus on the impact blogging has had in the world of solo and small firm practitioners, an area that she says was under the radar of most legal media when she started out.

I'll be sharing this resource with all the solo and small firm practitioners I know.

The ABA Standing Committee on Solos and Small Firm Practitioners, sponsors of the Solosez e-mail discussion group, yesterday launched SOLOSEZ.net, a Web portal for solo and small firm practitioners.

This month's topic was Ethical Considerations for the Solo and Small Firm Practitioner.

He has served as executive committee member and Chair of the Orange County Bar Association's Insurance Law and Solo and Small Firm Practitioner sections.

Minimize Growing Pains — Expand Your Small Firm Practice with the Help of Contract Attorneys Part one of a three - part evening series for solos and small firm practitioners Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. 42 W. 44th St., New York, New York

Not exact matches

Law firms (large and small) and solo legal practitioners alike can use virtual office services and spaces to run their entire legal...

Litigation was a major specialty of many small firms and solo practitioners.

PLI has supplied consulting and expert witnesses to law firms across the size spectrum, from the region's largest, such as Wyatt, Tarrant and Combs and Frost, Brown, Todd, to the smallest firms and solo practitioners.

We also hope the site proves valuable to solo practitioners and lawyers in small firms who are tasked with creating and maintaining their own resource libraries.

«The Total Attorneys model makes Internet marketing affordable and time - efficient for small law firms and solo practitioners and improves consumer access to legal information and services,» he said.

I have found a lack of understanding in this area to be most prevalent with solo practitioners and those in small firms who may lack the resources to deal with this issue and therefore resort to the mistaken assumption outlined above.

In fact, if you're a small firm or solo practitioner you're probably always on the lookout for new business and better ways to grow your network.

Faced with a difficult economic environment, many solo practitioners and small law firms have slashed their marketing budgets.

While it may be true that «Not a day goes by without a legal professional telling us that he or she relies almost entirely (or entirely) on CanLII for his or her primary law needs», and that it is a «practice enabler» for small firm or solo practitioner, it is not credible as a vehicle for serious legal research other than a source of recent cases.

Here are a few great reasons why solo practitioners and small law firms need to have a more niche focus to succeed in the modern legal industry, and some growing legal niches for lawyers to consider.

Sometimes evolution can actually make things easier for small firms and solo practitioners.

On March 29, at the Sixth Annual UF Law E-Discovery Conference, prominent federal judges, practitioners, and e-discovery experts will gather at the University of Florida Levin College of Law for discussions that will be livestreamed globally on issues affecting not only the nation's largest law firms, but solo practitioners, smaller firms, and government legal teams as well.

Pennsylvania Bar Institute «Drafting Fundamental Estate Planning Documents» (October 1996; May 1999; April 2001; May 2002) «How to Draft for the Marital Deduction» (July 1998) «Using the Web for Research» (Transact 1999: Technology Transforms Transactions; September 1999) «The Internet for Pennsylvania Lawyers» (4th Annual Solo and Small Firm Practice Conference, March 1997) «Internet Resources for Estate Practitioners» (Estate Law Institute; November 2003, November 2004, January 2006) «Abrogating Common Law Marriage» (Estate Law Institute, November 2004) «How2 Practice Estate and Trust Law» (March 2008)

The two most prevalent sources for technology training cited by respondents from smaller sized firms (solo practitioners and 2 - 9 attorneys) are freely available to anyone who has purchased any particular software: tutorials included with software programs and web - based classes offered by vendors / manufacturers.

With Agile, solo practitioners and small firms improve their overall efficiency and expand their practice capabilities.

About Clio Clio is a comprehensive web - based practice management product specifically designed for solo practitioners and small - to - medium - sized law firms.

(a) Not employed as lawyers (b) Forced to start their own practices as solo practitioners, or (c) Working in small «firms» with other inexperienced lawyers and without the training necessary to become quality professionals.

Below I've considered how the advice five well respected entrepreneurs gave to Business Insider / Entrepreneur also applies to solo practitioners and small firms.

She believes that technology is the great equalizer for the small firm and solo practitioner.

«Limiting the use of paralegals and other nonlawyer professionals may make it increasingly difficult for many lawyers, particularly small firms and solo practitioners, to practice to the top of their licenses,» says Ellen Murphy, a professor at the Wake Forest University School of Law who specializes in professional responsibility issues.

OK, some of you might be thinking, but I'm not a solo practitioner and I don't run my own small firm.

In occurs to me, though, that successful solo practitioners and small firms aren't very different from successful entrepreneurs.

To help small law firms and solo practitioners like Bergian, Firm Central connects and integrates documents, communication, time and billing, calendar, legal research, and other administrative functions for greater efficiency and ease of use.

Smaller firms and solo practitioners might not have a threshold number, but they still know how many hours they need to bill to stay in the black.

Small firm practitioners from across Ontario are gathering at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre today for the Law Society of Upper Canada's sixth annual Solo and Small Firm Conference and Expo 2firm practitioners from across Ontario are gathering at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre today for the Law Society of Upper Canada's sixth annual Solo and Small Firm Conference and Expo 2Firm Conference and Expo 2011.

When you're a solo (or small firm) practitioner in the first or early years of your practice, your chief concern is something like this: «Can I earn enough money to keep the lights on, and support myself and my family?»