Solo Practice University® Guest Lectures
An ever-growing library of guest lectures and interviews for solo lawyers and law students.
- Update frequency
- every 30 days
- Episodes
- 143
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2024
A Must Listen Podcast: Insuring the Money Machine – Guest Lecture with Larry Dykes
(This is not a sponsored link.) One of the very first things I did as a new solo was insure my money machine. I wasn’t even earning an income and I went and bought disability insurance. I have it t…
Mon 27 Jul 2015
Legal Analytics for Solos and Small Firms – Guest Lecture with Jared Correia
Legal Analytics, at first blush, is about as exciting to the busy solo as watching paint dry. But the truth is it is the secret to a successful practice. I know most of you immediately want to say,…
Mon 06 Jul 2015
How To Make Speaking Work As A Marketing Strategy – Guest Lecture with Denise Hedges and Barbara Mencer
You may have considered speaking as part of your marketing strategy but were not really sure how to go about it. More likely you are afraid you won’t be an effective speaker.
Well, we found THE best…
Mon 06 Apr 2015
Why Lawyers Need to Get With Encryption – Guest Lecture with Jared Correia
Encryption is now part of your professional duty to safeguard your clients’ data.
Encryption is a very techno-scary word for many lawyers. It’s intimidating, actually. But even if it is, it doesn’t …
Mon 23 Mar 2015
How to Create Teams for Legal Matters as a Solo – Guest Lecture with Ryan McKeen
Ryan McKeen of the McKeen Law Firm is back with us again. This time he shares how he can take on larger matters by creating legal teams for cases on an ‘as needed’ basis.
This is a must-listen to gu…
Mon 09 Feb 2015
Building A (Much) Better Law Firm – Guest Lecture with Kathleen Paukert
When Kathleen Paukert first contacted me to discuss her book The Fulfilled Lawyer, my initial thought was this was another perspective on work/life balance. However, once we started to dig into her …
Thu 22 Jan 2015
Online Security Basics for Attorneys – Guest Lecture with Deborah Gonzalez (Part 2)
As promised, here is the second part of this important and fascinating guest lecture with Deborah Gonzalez discussing online security basics for attorneys. If you’ve not listened to Part 1 yet, you …
Tue 13 Jan 2015
Online Security & Risk Basics For Attorneys – Guest Lecture with Deborah Gonzalez (Part 1)
Quite simply, this is a mind-blowing guest lecture from one of our most thought-provoking faculty, Deborah Gonzalez. This guest lecture exposes the deep and dark underbelly of the online world, the …
Tue 06 Jan 2015
The Paperless Office – Guest Lecture with Ernest Svenson
I had the pleasure of finally meeting Ernie Svenson (after years of ‘knowing’ him online) and today Ernie is going to talk about the virtues, professionally and financially, of going paperless and ho…
Mon 15 Dec 2014
From Big Law To Solo – Guest Lecture with Ken Levinson
How do you leave a Big Law firm or medium-sized firm when they’ve been your training ground from the start of your legal career? How do you do so ethically, responsibly and in a positive way while s…
Mon 01 Dec 2014
Savvy Solo – Guest Lecture with Haley Austin
Last May, Clio ran a #Clioday contest asking lawyers how they used the time they saved because of Clio law practice management solutions. After much fanfare, a winner was picked. Haley Austin. I w…
Mon 03 Nov 2014
The Impact of Social Media on the Legal Process – Guest Lecture with Omar Ha-Redeye
Oftentimes, when we discuss social media it is in the context of how every lawyer should be using it for marketing. Not this time. Today we have Omar Ha-Redeye (who also teaches a course at Solo Pr…
Tue 28 Oct 2014
Legal Value Firm: Guest Lecture with Joe Donnini
Our guest speaker today has a biography which simply does not do him justice. Joe Donnini is the founder of Legal Value Firm, a name you are going to be hearing a lot more of because here is a lawye…
Tue 07 Oct 2014
Work/Life Balance or ‘Just Life’? Guest Lecture with Jared Correia
Today Jared and I discuss the elusive work/life balance equation. We differ and yet we agree on how solos and small firm practitioners are adapting to the changes in practice, and how to manage time…
Mon 08 Sep 2014
There’s No Way to Game the System – Demystifying SEO – Guest Lecture with Conrad Saam
How do we create a web presence that actually works to bring in clients? Well, this guest lecture may actually surprise you as no one is going to sell you a high-priced web site or bedazzle you with…
Mon 21 Jul 2014
The DIY Solo – Guest Lecture with Jared Correia
Jared receives countless questions from new solo lawyers and solos who have been in practice for decades but need advice on law practice management. We like to ask Jared what’s on lawyers’ minds as w…
Mon 05 May 2014
When Do You Need A Therapist To Help With Life?
Here we go, again, talking about that taboo subject: Being a lawyer and admitting you need help. You don’t have to necessarily be depressed or even anxious. But sometimes you just need an objectiv…
Mon 14 Apr 2014
Guest Lecture with Nora Bergman and Liz Lamar
I have a confession. When Nora Bergman and Liz Lamar first came on board as faculty teaching an in-depth Lean Six Sigma for Solos course at Solo Practice University, I thought I already knew what Le…
Mon 24 Mar 2014
Managing the Process of Change – Guest Lecture with Jared Correia
Today’s guest lecture is all about change – managing the process of change. It is a grab bag of topics based upon the most frequently asked questions Jared has received these past months…and they all…
Tue 04 Mar 2014
Building a Law Firm Culture Which Honors Women – Guest Lecture with Mayanne Downs
This guest lecture is a little off the topic of solo practice but I had to speak with this incredible woman because she speaks to why so many women go solo, to create their own culture of one that al…
Tue 25 Feb 2014
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