The Strategic Pathway™: A Solo or Small Firm Owner’s Guide to Strategic Growth
The way you think about your practice could be what is stymieing its growth and profitability. Your law firm’s potential for success is not entirely dependent on your actual marketplace. Instead, it is deeply affected by how you view your marketing efforts and your practice inside of your marketplace. This workshop is a fascinating look at three predominant mindsets shared by owners of solo and small firms. Join us to learn how you can leverage the right mindset to grow your practice while reducing stress and increasing income.
Steve Riley, Certified Practice Advisor & Attorney
Atticus, Inc.
The Solo Practice Profit Scorecard™: What is Your Score Against Best Practices?
A common challenge for solo and small firm owners is comparing how their practice stacks up to similar law firms. How is your profitability and cash flow? How is your time management and focus? And, how well do you do in hiring, managing and leading your staff? For nearly three decades, Atticus has studied and worked with the top performing solo and small firm owners in the nation, and this has revealed what we consider best practices. Attend this workshop to see how your firm compares and how to immediately improve your score. When you leave the workshop, you’ll have actionable ideas to improve your practice.
Steve Riley, Certified Practice Advisor & Attorney
Atticus, Inc.
10 Practical Strategies for Managing Stress, Eliminating Interruptions, and Getting Home on Time
Does your practice dominate your personal life? Does it control you — or do you control it? This workshop is a step-by-step guide to getting your practice focused and your life in balance. You will learn ten solid time management strategies to reduce stress and increase productivity, manage unwanted interruptions, delegate tasks effectively, and recover 15 to 25 percent of your billable time. You will learn to use staff more effectively and accomplish more in less time.
Steve Riley, Certified Practice Advisor & Attorney
Atticus, Inc.
The Solo & Small Firms’ Guide to Helping Good Attorneys Become Great Rainmakers
This workshop is essential for learning how to attract profitable clients. You will learn how to capture the power of your top twenty referral sources and how to increase the business they send your way. In addition, you’ll learn how to speak about your practice in business and social settings so that you build your business, educate your market and expand your referral base. You’ll get focused on building lifelong relationships with clients and influencers. And you will exchange marketing ideas with your colleagues to create a simple, effective action plan to increase your revenue.
Steve Riley, Certified Practice Advisor & Attorney
Atticus, Inc.
Hire, Don’t Adopt! 10 Key Hiring and Managing Mistakes Attorneys Make — and How to Avoid Them
Most solo and small firm owners run their practices like a family business. Too often they “adopt” employees instead of managing them. Learn the ten most common hiring and managing mistakes and how to prevent them from wrecking your practice, your profitability and your quality of sleep. This workshop is essential for learning how to be a better employer, manager, and leader. You’ll learn techniques to improve recruiting, training and delegation skills. This seminar gets you focused on building a firm that serves your life and makes you feel like your team works for you — and not the other way around.
Steve Riley, Certified Practice Advisor & Attorney
Atticus, Inc.
Internet Defamation & Cyber-Attacks
As internet speech grows, so do internet defamation cases—big and small. Today it is easy to ruin names, brands, and reputations with negative online statements. Yet, the internet also makes it easier to raise awareness of issues and advocate for change before a widespread audience. This presentation will help you advise clients on claims or risks of online defamation. It will also cover related "hot” issues such as First Amendment anonymity, Communications Decency Act Section 230, and anti-SLAPP laws.
Joe Meadows, Esquire
Bean Kinney & Korman PC
Tying it All Together: Law Office Technology and Management for Solo and Small Firms Part 1
The practice of law for a small firm lawyer requires business savvy, creativity, passion, compassion, mastery of "the tools of the trade," and an acute awareness that we practice law in a time of accelerating change. Even lawyers with just 1-3 areas of primary focus need to be jacks of all trades. In this presentation, Burton Hunter will present research on new apps and hardware, procedures, forms, tools, and checklists. By circulating a survey before his presentation, he hopes to target what interests you and what he thinks you need to know. Hunter is poised to publish 300 updated pages from his 1200 page, 370 article, blog, "Perspectives of a Small Town Lawyer," in book form. He will share as much of it with you as 100 minutes permit!
J. Burton Hunter, III, Esquire
J. Burton Hunter, III And Associates, PLLC
Evaluating Whether to Take an Employment Law Case: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and How to Tell the Difference
Solo and small firm practitioners need cases in practice areas where they can help clients and maximize revenue. This presentation will provide advice, based on extensive experience in litigation and employment cases, to those considering entering the area of employment law, who have just ventured into the area of employment law, or who are experienced in handling employment law cases but would like to sharpen their case selection skills.
John Einreinhofer, Esquire
The Law Offices of John Einreinhofer
Tying it All Together: Law Office Technology and Management for Solo and Small Firms Part 2
The practice of law for a small firm lawyer requires business savvy, creativity,
passion, compassion, mastery of "the tools of the trade," and an acute awareness
that we practice law in a time of accelerating change. Even lawyers with just
1-3 areas of primary focus need to be jacks of all trades. In this presentation,
Burton Hunter will present research on new apps and hardware, procedures, forms,
tools, and checklists. By circulating a survey before his presentation, he hopes
to target what interests you and what he thinks you need to know. Hunter is poised
to publish 300 updated pages from his 1200 page, 370 article, blog, "Perspectives
of a Small Town Lawyer," in book form. He will share as much of it with you as
100 minutes permit!
J. Burton Hunter, III, Esquire
J. Burton Hunter, III And Associates, PLLC
Strategies for Dealing With Challenging Clients
It is not an overstatement to say that what cases a solo or small firm practitioner decides to take or not take can make or break his or her career. This presentation will provide practical tips and strategies from an experienced solo and small firm practitioner to assess whether a potential client will be difficult and/or challenging, including extensive tips regarding the screening process. The presentation will also provide tools to handle the difficult or challenging clients that get through the screening process. Ethical considerations and the Rules of Professional Responsibility as they pertain to common issues that arise when dealing with challenging clients will also be considered
John Einreinhofer, Esquire
The Law Offices of John Einreinhofer