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TIMES
- 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.: Succession Planning (1 ethics credit)
- 2:45 - 3:45 p.m.: Manage the Demands of This Profession While Making the Most of Your Time (1 substantive credit)
- 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You - Tech Tips (1 ethics credit)
- 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.: Complimentary Social/Happy Hour outside on the ECBA parking lot!
COSTS
- Attend one CLE: $47 - ECBA Members (Judges & Attorneys); $10 - Non-attorney staff; $60 - Non-members
- Attend two CLEs: $85 - ECBA Members (Judges & Attorneys); $20 - Non-attorney staff; $110 - Non-members
- Attend three CLEs: $125 - ECBA Members (Judges & Attorneys); $30 - Non-attorney staff; $160 - Non-members
SEMINARS
- Succession Planning: A majority of law firms and solos are neglecting this essential aspect of strategic planning. Lawyers have responsibilities to protect their client’s interests, and some of these responsibilities extend beyond an active career. Failure to actively plan for succession can also negatively impact associate retention. Many firms will face future implosion if they do not begin planning right now.
- Manage the Demands of This Profession While Making the Most of Your Times: Managing mountains of information, while coping with the relentless daily responsibilities of servicing your clients, can be a stressful and daunting task for any attorney. This fastpaced session addresses the persistent challenges you are likely to face, and explores the techniques to help you meet those challenges head-on and stay on top of your game. This session examines the variety of reasons we fail to maximize productivity. It illuminates how to incorporate better organization and communication, and how to overcome procrastination, to ensure that work flows smoothly and efficiently, while avoiding ethical blunders and disciplinary complaints. This course is suitable for office administrators, paralegals and key staff in addition to attorneys.
- What You Don't Know Can Hurt You - Tech Tips: Cybersecurity can be scary for lawyers. And a pandemic and “working” from home can make it scarier. But it doesn’t have to be. The program will discuss lawyers’ ethical obligations for cybersecurity of client confidential information and very specific applications of the ethics rules and obligations, and how they apply to a number of common technology tools used by lawyers and law firms. Attorneys will walk away with specific and tangible suggestions for how to be safer, a little bit at a time, every day.
SPEAKERS
- Ellen Freedman, CLM, is the Law Practice Management Coordinator for the PBA. She assists PBA’s members with management issues and decisions on the business side of their practice, including areas such as technology, financial management and profitability, human resources, marketing, risk management, starting a practice and so forth. She is founder and President of Freedman Consulting, which assists PA law firms with a full range of issues and projects on the business side of the practice. Ms. Freedman also publishes the Law Practice Management blog at www.PA-LawPracticeManagement.com. Ms. Freedman holds the designation of Certified Legal Manager through the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA). She holds a Certification in Computer Programming from Maxwell Institute, and a Certification in Web Site Design and a B.A. from Temple University.
- As the Director of Sales and Business Development at Velocity Network, Matt Wiertel work’s to create, identify, and investigate business and partnership opportunities in the region. Through collaboration with Velocity Network’s operations, sales, and technical teams, the company’s capabilities are leveraged to increase our portfolio of service offerings in Northwestern Pennsylvania and beyond.
Reservations due to the ECBA office by August 11, 2023. |
