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A three-hour presentation titled Business Aspects of Solo and Small Firm Practice.

Panelists discuss the business aspects of starting, running and growing your practice. During the final hour of the program, Beverly Michaelis and Dee Crocker from the Professional Liability Fund present information on setting up a practice, practice resources, trust accounting, and cautions and pitfalls of starting and running your practice.

CLE handout materials are available here.

Members wishing to claim 3 practical skills MCLE credits for this recording should use MCLE Reporting Form 6. The Lane County Bar Association sponsored the program titled Business Aspects of Solo and Small Firm Practice held on February 17, 2012 in Eugene. The program number is 57*713.

Event sponsored by: Lane County Bar Association, University of Oregon School of Law Career Services and the Oregon New Lawyers Division.

The Board of Governors along with the Oregon New Lawyers Division are focusing efforts on providing services to active and veteran members of the military. In order to handle VA Disability Claims, attorneys must be accredited by the Department of Veterans Affairs, a process that can take up to 90 days. Later in the year, after you are accredited, look to the Oregon State Bar for a training CLE to finalize your accreditation process. If you are interested in this area of practice and would like to learn more about getting accredited go to http://www.va.gov/ogc/accred_faqs.asp. If you are ready to apply for accreditation you can access the application online at http://www.va.gov/vaforms/va/pdf/VA21a.pdf.

Practical Skills Opportunity

SSA Training Workshop Success. The Oregon New Lawyers Division and Federal Bar Association sponsored a 2-day training for attorneys interested in social security disability law at the US District Courthouse in Portland. The free workshop provided 13.5 CLE hours and featured esteemed plaintiffs' attorneys Sharon Maynard, Nicole Schneider, and George Wall and claimant advocate Mellani Calvin as well as Administrative Law Judges Eleanor Laws and Sue Leise. Topics covered included the disability process and representation and concluded with a mock hearing. Over 70 attorneys participated. The ONLD and FBA-YLD have launched this program and others, including the Practical Skills in Public Service Program, to help new unemployed and underemployed attorneys enhance their knowledge and expand their professional skills. Check back here for registration information in April for a May foreclosure defense workshop. For more information, please contact ONLD@osbar.org.