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Strategic Solutions for Solo & Small Firms Conference Sponsored by Minnesota CLE
Using Social Media in Your Practice Important principles for effective participation. This program will carry 1 CLE credit.
Powerful Writing Techniques That Persuade Both Judges and Clients Learn to write more persuasively by using the same powerful techniques copywriters have relied on for years. Topics include: your greatest challenge in writing; how to write a compelling brief that the judge just can't put down; the role of emotion in jurisprudence and how to trigger readers' emotions; how to deal with objections to your position; closing the deal: conclusions and calls to action, and more. This program will carry 1 CLE credit.
Associates? I Don't Need No Stinkin' Associates! Why and how to work with contract lawyers. Outsourcing is the wave of the future, but it doesn't necessarily mean sending work overseas, and it's not just for big firms. Solo and small firms can garner many benefits by outsourcing substantive legal work. Topics include benefits of outsourcing, how to find a contract attorney, what a good contract attorney brings to the table, ethical issues in the outsourcing relationship, co-counsel arrangements that work and more. This program will carry 1 CLE credit.
Powerful Writing Techniques to Help You Persuade Judges and Win Clients Sponsored by the Nebraska Continuing Legal Education and the General Practice and Law Practice Management Sections of the Nebraska State Bar Association The ability to write forcefully and effectively is critical to your success as a lawyer. In this program, attendees will learn to write more persuasively by using the same powerful techniques that copywriters have relied on for years. Attendees discover what these techniques are and how to apply them in both briefs and client-focused writing. Topics covered in this course include:
Associates? I Don't Need No Stinkin' Associates! Why and How to Work With Contract Lawyers Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute Outsourcing is the wave of the future. But it doesn't necessarily mean sending work overseas, and it's not just for big firms. Solos and small firms can garner many benefits by outsourcing substantive legal work to independent, US-based contract (a/k/a freelance) lawyers. Topics covered in this course include:
Powerful Persuasive Writing Techniques for Your Marketing Material and Briefs Sponsored by the State Bar of Michigan Learn to write more persuasively using the same powerful techniques that copywriters have relied on for years. Discover how to apply concepts such as message to market match and the "foot in the door" strategy, and to use tools including storytelling, social proof and calls to action to more effectively sell your services to potential clients and your arguments to judges. This program will carry 1.5 CLE credits.
Powerful Writing Techniques to Help You Persuade Judges and Win Clients Sponsored by the American Bar Association's GP|Solo Division and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education The ability to write forcefully and effectively is critical to your success as a lawyer. In this teleconference and live audio webcast, attendees learned to write more persuasively by using the same powerful techniques that copywriters have relied on for years. Attendees discovered what these techniques are and how to apply them in both briefs and client-focused writing. Topics covered in this course include:
This program began with a recorded replay of the program that Judge Lebovits and Lisa presented at the National Solo & Small Firm Conference in October 2009, followed by a live Q&A session with the presenters. This program carried 1.5 CLE credits.
National Solo & Small Firm Conference Sponsored by the American Bar Association's GP|Solo Division
Social Media for Lawyers: Six Important Principles for Effective Participation Social media is an efficient and economical tool that lawyers can use to help their practices grow and thrive. In this program, lawyers learned about six important principles, applicable across social media platforms, that will help them use social media to promote and market their practices, showcase their areas of expertise, and network with other attorneys. This program carried 1 CLE credit.
Powerful Writing Techniques to Help You Persuade Judges and Win Clients The ability to write forcefully and effectively is critical to your success as a lawyer. In this program, attendees learned to write more persuasively by using the same powerful techniques that copywriters have relied on for years. Attendees discovered what these techniques are and how to apply them in both briefs and client-focused writing. Topics covered in this course included:
This program carried 1 CLE credit.
The 6 Things You Need to Know About Social Media Sponsored by New York Law School Social media is an efficient and economical tool that lawyers can use to help their practices grow and thrive. In this program, lawyers learned about six important principles, applicable across social media platforms, that will help them use social media to promote and market their practices, showcase their areas of expertise, and network with other attorneys.
Getting Back in the Game: How to Restart Your Career in a Down Economy Sponsored by the New York City Bar and Vault.com Lisa spoke on the alternative legal careers panel at this full-day program, which was designed to teach job-seeking attorneys how best to market themselves, whether they are looking to go to a firm or start their own practice, or are considering an alternative legal career.
Powerful Persuasive Writing Techniques for Your Marketing Materials and Briefs Sponsored by the Westchester Women's Bar Association During this program, Lisa taught attendees how to write more persuasive marketing materials and briefs, using the same powerful techniques that copywriters have been using for years. Topics covered included:
Writing Better Appellate Briefs Sponsored by the Brooklyn Women's Bar Association In the first part of the program, Ginger Trunkes, Principal Court Attorney at the Appellate Division, First Department, shared her "insights from the inside" about effective brief writing. Appellate practitioner Lisa Solomon followed up with a discussion of how judicial writing guides can help lawyers become better brief writers. All attendees received a copy of the Federal Judicial Center's Judicial Writing Manual. The program carried 1.5 CLE credits.
Clients: Finding Them, Keeping Them and Serving Their Needs
Sponsored by the American Bar Association, General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section Solo and small firm lawyers throughout the country are constantly searching for new clients while retaining current clients. The panelists discussed a number of effective marketing techniques. Lisa Solomon discussed how to market your practice by writing articles and presenting educational programs, with a focus on how to maximize the marketing value of publications and speaking engagements.
How Judicial Writing Guides Can Help Lawyers Become Better Writers Sponsored by the Small Law Firm Committee of the New York City Bar Association (formerly the Association of the Bar of the City of New York) While a brief is first and foremost a forum for advocacy on behalf of your client, the closer it approximates judicial writing style, the more favorably the judge will be inclined view the substance of your argument. In this program, Lisa Solomon, a frequent speaker on legal research and writing topics, discussed how you can apply the lessons set out in judicial writing guides to write more effective briefs that will make judges want to rule in your clients' favor. All attendees received a copy of the Federal Judicial Center's Judicial Writing Manual.
How to Win on Appeal: Writing Better Briefs and Avoiding Procedural Pitfalls (co-presenter)
Sponsored by the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York In the first part of the program, Ginger Trunkes, Principal Court Attorney at the Appellate Division, First Department, shared her "insights from the inside" about effective brief writing. Next, Lisa Solomon, Esq. discussed how judicial writing guides can help lawyers become better brief writers. Capping off the program, Myrna Felder, Esq. addressed 10 appellate traps and how to avoid them. This program carried 2 CLE credits.
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