PMRC Virtual Seminars - 2021
Virtual seminars from the Practice Management Resource Center feature free or low-cost presentations on tech competence, practice management, and risk management.
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 Time: 2-3 p.m. Cost: Free to attend Location: Zoom
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Join the PMRC’s latest virtual seminar, “Creating a Practice You Deserve,” featuring Katy Goshtasbi, who will provide the marketing and branding tools you need to promote your practice. This virtual seminar will provide the knowledge and skills to:
Join us and learn how to have the career and practice you want!
Katy Goshtasbi is a securities lawyer, branding expert, coach, consultant, public speaker, and founder of Puris Consulting. She works with law firms, lawyers, and organizations on growing, in size and profits, by mastering change and developing brands that get their message out effectively. The results include happier, more productive lawyers, reduced stress, attracting better clients and more revenues. Katy practiced securities law for over 14 years. She can be reached at katy@purisconsulting.com.
PMRC Virtual Seminar: How to Run a Lean Law Firm – Business Tips from the World’s Most Profitable Businesses
Join the PMRC virtual seminar, “How to Run a Lean Law Firm,” featuring Larry Port, CEO of Rocket Matter and Dave Maxfield, consumer law attorney for Consumer Law SC. This virtual seminar will provide attendees with simple ways to transform their firm and increase revenues using Lean management techniques, a methodology pioneered by Toyota. The virtual seminar will:
This seminar is 2 to 3 p.m. Oct. 27, 2021, via Zoom. It is free and available to all members of the State Bar of Michigan and their staff.
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Speaker Bios: Larry Port Larry Port is the founder and CEO of Rocket Matter, the pioneering cloud-based legal practice management software. His is the co-author of “The Lean Law Firm: Run Your Firm Like the World’s Most Profitable and Efficient Businesses,” published by the American Bar Association. Larry frequently discusses design and efficiency as well as quality techniques in the software industry that can be leveraged by lawyers and other legal professionals.
Dave Maxfield Dave Maxfield runs a consumer protection practice in Columbia, South Carolina. He’s the three-time Chair of the Consumer Law Section of the SC Bar and past president of the Richland County Bar. He has represented thousands in cases against banks, credit reporting agencies, and insurance companies. Besides co-hosting The Lean Law Firm podcast, he consults with law firms to help transform their practices through Lean methods and consults with tech providers to make products more useful for lawyers. In 2018, with co-author Larry Port, he wrote the ABA book, The Lean Law Firm.
PMRC Virtual Seminar: The Paperless Law Firm – A Digital Dream
Get the best practices and tools you need to go paperless in this virtual seminar 2-3 p.m. Nov. 17.
Join the PMRC virtual seminar, “The Paperless Law Firm – A Digital Dream,” featuring speakers Daniel J. Siegel and JoAnn L. Hathaway. This virtual seminar will provide policies, procedures, and best practices to attorneys looking to go paperless or use less paper in their law firm. Attendees will walk away with skills to help their practice, including the ability to:
This seminar is 2 to 3 p.m. Nov. 17, 2021, via Zoom. It is free and available to all members of the State Bar of Michigan and their staff.
Speaker Bios: Daniel J. Siegel Attorney Daniel J. Siegel is the president of Integrated Technology Services LLC, which assists law firms and businesses by helping them implement technology and improve their workflows. He is the principal of the Law Offices of Daniel J. Siegel LLC and uses his insights as an attorney to assist technology clients. Contact dan@techlawyergy.com.
JoAnn L. Hathaway JoAnn L. Hathaway is the practice management advisor for the State Bar of Michigan. She previously worked as a legal liability claims director, risk manager, paralegal, and legal administrator. She is an Adobe Certified Expert, a Certified Clio Product Pro, and holds software certifications in LexisNexis Time Matters and Billing Matters software. She is the author of the ABA publication, “Legal Malpractice Insurance in One Hour for Lawyers.” She is a frequent speaker on law firm technology, insurance, and risk and practice management topics.
Business Continuity for Law Offices in the Face of Coronavirus
A free on-demand virtual seminar for Michigan lawyers
This all-inclusive virtual seminar will teach you the steps you need to take to develop your remote practice, from setup to running at full throttle. Mobility and efficient remote access were important even before the COVID-19 pandemic, but in a situation like this they can be the difference between the life or death of your practice.
Attorney and legal technologist Barron Henley shares, among other things, what you need to know to:
The full virtual seminar runs about two hours. The State Bar of Michigan has made it available on-demand, so you can watch it on your own time.
You can download the materials referenced in the virtual seminar here.
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If you have a question about something in the virtual seminar, email Barron Henley.
Barron K. Henley, Esq. is one of the founding partners of Affinity Consulting Group, a legal technology consulting firm focused on automating and streamlining law firms and legal departments. He earned his B.S./B.A. (marketing and economics) and J.D. from The Ohio State University and is a member of the American, Ohio and Columbus Bar Associations, and the Worthington Estate Planning Council. He is a Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management, a member of Ohio Supreme Court Commission on Technology and the Courts, and a member of both the ABA Law Practice Management and the Real Property Trust and Estate Law ("RPTE") Sections. He's a former member of RPTE Futures Task Force, a former Board Member for the ABA TECHSHOW, and the former Chair of the Ohio State Bar Association Law Office Automation & Technology Committee. Mr. Henley heads Affinity’s document assembly/automation and software training departments. Barron is also an expert in launching new law firms, overhauling existing firms, and documenting and re-engineering law firm processes. Finally, Barron teaches continuing legal education (CLE) classes throughout the U.S. and Canada covering a wide variety of topics related to law practice management, technology and ethics.
Barron K. Henley, Esq. Affinity Consulting
Visit the PMRC Learning page to view past virtual seminar recordings.