Build a Solo Practice @ SPU
"Newly minted or well-seasoned, teaching you how to create and grow your legal practice." Business planning from the ground up: marketing, getting clients, keeping clients.
Author: Susan Cartier Liebel is a lawyer and operates the coaching / consulting firm Build a Solo Practice in Northford, Conn. She is also an adjunct professor at Quinnipiac University School of Law and writes a column for the Connecticut Law Tribune and The Complete Lawyer. She also authors Solo Practice University.
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Recent Posts from Build a Solo Practice @ SPU
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Take a Minute to Purge Your Twitter Followers
Online reputation comes in many forms and this includes not just who you are following on Twitter, but who you are permitting to follow you. It remains a form a marketing in a more subtle…
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“Tip of the Week” - Furnishing Your Office For Free
Furnishing your (home) office doesn't have to cost you much at all...possibly nothing. If you haven't heard of freecycle.org you are missing out on one of life's best kept secrets.
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Networking for Shy Lawyers
Whether you prefer the internal world or the external world, that preference is fixed. You can force yourself to act outside of your element, but an introvert can’t become an extravert and vice versa.
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Why Going Home To Go To Work May Be Just What Your Client Wants
With the New Economy, while you are worrying about the cost of starting up your solo practice, the client is thinking about their costs to retain you and their own convenience when working with you.
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Hitch A Ride On Someone Else’s Ego - Learn How To Be A Lawyer Under Fire
So, let's talk about education. What does a new lawyer do besides wait for the phone to ring? She starts acting like a lawyer.
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Understanding your Malpractice Policy - Beware the “Hammer Clause”
I've recently been investigating legal malpractice policies for something I'm working on. As I no longer practice I've really had very little reason to stay overly current on the fine print of malpractice policies and…
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A Law Firm in Every Stop & Shop?
Some of those in the legal profession will see the ability to set up kiosks selling legal services in a venue as 'pedestrian' as a supermarket the beginning of the end of law as we…
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Why Marketing is More Critical Than Ever For the Solo Practitioner
"If a young man tells his date she's intelligent, looks lovely, and is a great conversationalist, he's saying the right things to the right person and that's marketing.
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Never Let Them See You Sweat
Who remembers the advertisement for deodorant with the memorable line, "Never let them see you sweat." ( I know I'm dating myself but when a line is memorable, it's memorable.)
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How Long To Work? How Much To Earn? This is a Solo’s Real Choice.
We determine our time table for retirement or not; we determine our professional, emotional, social and financial 'wealth' in this lifetime.