Starting a law practice is exciting, demanding, and rewarding. The Hanging Your Shingle series is an unparalleled opportunity to learn how to avoid pitfalls and take charge of your career. This concentrated and thorough program offers a conversational environment that provides a unique chance to learn how to run your own law practice.
This program focuses on the newly minted attorney and features experts providing instruction and guidance on how to successfully open one’s own law practice, including setting up your own business, formulating an effective business plan, tax planning, billing and avoiding malpractice. The program gives you the information you need to become a successful and ethical lawyer-entrepreneur. Whether you know you want to establish your own firm or you are just “testing the waters”, this is the workshop for you.
This program focuses on the newly minted attorney and features experts providing instruction and guidance on how to successfully open one’s own law practice, including setting up your own business, formulating an effective business plan, tax planning, billing and avoiding malpractice. The program gives you the information you need to become a successful and ethical lawyer-entrepreneur. Whether you know you want to establish your own firm or you are just “testing the waters”, this is the workshop for you.
Course Content
2:00 - 2:05 pmWelcome and Introduction
2:05 - 2:30 pm
Knowing Yourself and Defining Your Practice
Panel
2:30 - 3:15 pm
Setting Up Your Law Firm as a Business
Panel
3:15 - 3:30 pm
Networking and Refreshment Break
3:30 - 4:00 pm
Computers, Technology, and Software
Panel
4:00 - 4:15 pm
Marketing Ideas: Client Development and Networking
Susan Letterman White, JD, MS,
Letterman White Consulting, Quincy
4:15 - 4:30 pm
Marketing Ideas
Panel
4:30 - 5:00 pm
'Ask the Experts' Q&A Session
Panel
Please Note
This webcast is delivered completely online, underscoring their convenience and appeal.
There are no published print materials. All written materials are available electronically only.
They are posted 24 hours prior to the program and can be accessed, downloaded, or printed from your computer.
Speakers
ChairCatherine F. Downing, Esq.,
Downing Van Dyke LLC, Framingham
Faculty
Michael D. Kelly, Esq.,
Kelly & Associates Injury Lawyers, PC, Boston
Susan Letterman White, JD, MS,
Letterman White Consulting, Quincy
Nathaniel W. Sears, Esq.,
The Law Office of Nathaniel W. Sears, Danvers
