This program teaches lawyers to write more persuasively by using the same powerful techniques that copywriters have relied on for years. Topics covered in this course include:

• The greatest challenge your writing must overcome to persuade readers to take a desired action
• Basic concepts underlying all effective persuasive writing—ignore these and you’re sunk
• How to write a compelling brief that the judge just can’t put down
• The role of emotion in jurisprudence and how to trigger the reader’s emotions
• The things readers absolutely hate—and how to avoid them
• How to deal with objections to your position
• Closing the deal: conclusions and calls to action
• And more . . . .

CLE accreditation (for 1.5 hours in 50-minute states and 1.8 hours in 60-minute states) is pending.

You can register for the program at the ABA’s website.

As our library of program recordings has grown, more and more new members have expressed interest in obtaining access to previously recorded programs, instead of attending upcoming live programs.

You asked for it, you got it!

Instead of live monthly programs, the LRWP Gold, Platinum and Platinum + memberships now include program recordings of your choice (Gold includes any three recordings; Platinum and Platinum + include any six recordings). In order to give you time to implement the lessons taught in each program, one program is delivered each month for the initial membership period.

Don’t want to wait for monthly program delivery? We’ve created the Gold Turbo, Platinum Turbo and Platinum + Turbo memberships just for you. All of the program recordings included in each of these memberships are delivered within 24 hours of the time you join LRWP.

Of course, our Gold, Platinum and Platinum + memberships (and their Turbo versions) still include the exclusive Contract Lawyering Success e-book and Freelance Freedom audio recording. These items are delivered as soon as you purchase any membership (even if it’s not a Turbo membership).

You can find complete descriptions of all of our memberships on our products page; this handy-dandy chart compares the features of all of the memberships side-by-side.

Finally, all of the supplemental programs are still available individually for $97 each, and I still offer private consultations as well ($197 for one hour; $297 for two hours).

If you have any questions about the new LRWP membership structure, please feel free to comment below, contact me privately, or call me at 914-595-6575.

Stuart is a lawyer and a professional legal educator. As the country’s only CLE performer, he teaches Critical Lawyering Skills to attorneys throughout the country for continuing legal education providers and conducts training seminars in law firms. He’s also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law in Camden, New Jersey (where he teaches Professional Responsibility) and an instructor at the Rutgers University Professional Writing Program. His law practice focuses on sophisticated real estate and business law, and he’s also a civil mediator.

This program will be presented as a “tele-webinar.” In a tele-webinar, you call in to a conference call line to receive the audio portion of the program. If you have access to your computer, you can follow along with a Power Point presentation as well. There is no need to install any software on your computer. If you will be calling in from outside the office, don’t worry: you can view or print the slides before the program, if you wish.

Join us for this tele-webinar on Tuesday, October 20 at 3 p.m. Eastern (noon Pacific).

Your registration includes participation in the live tele-webinar and copies of the audio and video program recordings. To register, visit our Products page and add a Silver Membership to your cart.

This program will provide proven strategies to help you:

• Expand Your Network
• Raise Your Profile
• Harness the Power of Social Media
• Build Stronger Relationships

Ari Kaplan is the author of the Amazon.com bestseller, The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development. He practiced law with large firms in New York City for nearly 9 years and has been recognized in the Miami Herald, the New York Post, the ABA Journal, Above the Law, the National Jurist, the Chicago Lawyer, GP Solo, the California Recorder and other publications. He provides business development training, career guidance, ghostwriting and individual coaching.

Join us for this program on Thursday, September 17 at 3 p.m. Eastern (noon Pacific).

Your registration includes participation in the live teleseminar and a copy of the program recording.

This program is also included in all Gold, Platinum and Platinum Plus memberships purchased before September 17.

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On Thursday, October 8, social media and legal technology maven Nicole Black and I will be presenting The 6 Things You Need to Know About Social Media as part of two-part program on social media for lawyers. In this program, lawyers will learn about six important principles, applicable across social media platforms, that will help them use social media to promote and market their practices, showcase their areas of expertise, and network with other attorneys

The program starts at 8 a.m., and is followed by Twitter for Lawyers. The second session, on October 14, features programs on Social Media-The Vulnerabilities and Liabilities and Blogs, Facebook, Linkedin For Lawyers. Registration is available for one or both sessions, and a total of 6 CLE credits will be available (pending accreditation). The program is sponsored by and will take place at New York Law School, 57 Worth Street in Manhattan.

Nicole and I will be reprising our social media presentation at the ABA GP|Solo Division’s National Solo & Small Firm Conference at the Millenium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on Friday, October 16, under the title Social Media for Lawyers: Six Important Principles for Effective Participation. It’ll be another early morning, with the program once again starting at 8 a.m.

On Saturday, October 17, I’ll be co-presenting Powerful Writing Techniques to Help You Persuade Judges and Win Clients with Hon. Gerald Lebovits. This program teaches lawyers to write more persuasively by using the same powerful techniques that copywriters have relied on for years. Topics covered in this course include:

• The greatest challenge your writing must overcome to persuade readers to take a desired action
• Basic concepts underlying all effective persuasive writing—ignore these and you’re sunk
• How to write a compelling brief that the judge just can’t put down
• The role of emotion in jurisprudence and how to trigger the reader’s emotions
• The things readers absolutely hate—and how to avoid them
• How to deal with objections to your position
• Closing the deal: conclusions and calls to action
• And more . . . .

This program runs from 1:15-2:15 p.m. (thank goodness!).

I look forward to seeing you at these exciting educational programs!

In this raucous program, Sean Carter, America’s foremost Humorist at Law, will show you how to add a spark of “lawghter” to any presentation. He’ll demonstrate:

• Why humor sells better than anything else (including sex)
• Why humor is always welcome
• How to find “the funny” in any topic
• How to blend humor with practical and useful information
• Tricks of the humor trade

Sean Carter is the founder of Lawpsided Seminars, a company devoted to solid legal continuing education with a healthy dose of laughter. Since 2002, Sean has crisscrossed the country delivering his Lawpsided Seminars for state and local bar associations, law firms, in-house corporate legal departments and law schools. Each year, he presents more than 100 humorous programs on such topics as legal ethics, stress management, constitutional law, legal marketing and much more. He’s the author of the first-ever comedic legal treatise, If It Does Not Fit, Must You Acquit?: Your Humorous Guide to the Law. His syndicated legal humor column has appeared in general circulation newspapers in more than 30 states and his weekly humor column for lawyers appeared in the ABA e-Report from 2003 to 2006.

Before becoming the country’s foremost legal humorist, Sean practiced for ten years in the areas of corporate securities and mergers and acquisitions.

Since August is all about vacations, we’re giving our live teleseminars the month off. The teleseminar recording will be available starting on August 20. Everyone who purchases a Silver Membership before then will receive, as our gift, a free copy of If It Does Not Fit, Must You Acquit?: Your Humorous Guide to the Law.

To register, visit our Products page and add a Silver Membership to your cart.

In this course, you’ll learn how to get noticed by, published in, and interviewed by the publications that lawyers—and clients—read:

• initiating contact and building relationships with editors and journalists
• establishing your credentials as the go-to person in your area of practice
• understanding the media perspective: what they need, when they need it
• writing for print versus web publications; writing for lawyer versus client publications
• preparing for an interview: setting the ground rules, preparing for surprises
• turning your media profile into a marketing advantage

Presenter Jordan Furlong is a lawyer, journalist, award-winning legal magazine editor, and award-winning legal blogger. His blog, Law21: Dispatches From a Legal profession on the Brink, tracks the extraordinary changes underway in the legal marketplace. He is the Editor-in-Chief of National, the magazine of the Canadian Bar Association, and chairs the InnovAction Awards at the College of Law Practice Management.

This program will be presented as a “tele-webinar.” In a tele-webinar, you call in to a conference call line to receive the audio portion of the program. If you have access to your computer, you can follow along with a Power Point presentation as well. There is no need to install any software on your computer. If you will be calling in from outside the office, don’t worry: you can view or print the slides before the program, if you wish.

Join us for this tele-webinar on Thursday, July 16 at 3 p.m. Eastern (noon Pacific).

Your registration includes participation in the live teleseminar and a copy of the program recording (mp3). To register, visit our Products page and add a Silver Membership to your cart.

Join Jennifer Loud Ungar and learn how to build a strong professional network to draw from for career success. In this program, you’ll learn:

• How the web can make you a more effective networker—and when to get out from behind your computer
• How to easily and naturally build substantive relationships at a networking event
• The biggest mistake most lawyers make when following up on a networking contact
• How both introverts and extroverts can effectively build their base of referrals without feeling sales-y
• How to leverage your existing communities, even outside of the law, to help you increase business
• And much more!

Jennifer Loud Ungar, a “Recovering Lawyer” herself, is the founder of Career Moves, a career strategy firm for attorneys. She’s also the creator of “Unlock the Golden Handcuffs,” a proven six-step system to help attorneys find the career of their dreams inside or outside the practice of law. Jennifer’s background as a lawyer, career counselor, co-adjunct professor, headhunter and law school administrator gives her unique insight into all aspects of the career planning and discovery process for lawyers at any stage of their career, from law student to experienced practitioner.

Join us for this teleconference on Thursday, June 18 at 3 p.m. Eastern (noon Pacific).

Your registration includes participation in the live teleseminar and a copy of the program recording (mp3). To register, visit our Products page and add a Silver Membership to your cart.

Here’s the full program agenda:

9:45 AM – Welcome by Patricia M. Hynes, President, New York City Bar

10:00 AM – Breaking Back into a Large Law Firm: How to Make Your Way Back into a Top Law Firm (panelists include David Lat, founding editor of Abovethe Law.com, who I can’t wait to meet!)

11:30 AM – Casting a Wider Net: The Rise of the Small to Mid-Sized Law Firm

12:45 PM – 1:45 PM Lunch

1:45 PM — Alternative Legal Careers: Exploring the Range of Options With Your JD

3:15 PM — Start Up LLP: Creating Your Own Law Firm (panelists include my good friend Carolyn Elefant, publisher of MyShingle.com and author of Solo by Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be)

The cost for the program, which will be held at the City Bar’s headquarters on West 44th Street in Manhattan, is $30 for members and $50 for non-members. You can register at the New York City Bar website.

(I understand that there are plans to stream the event live, but I don’t have any details about that at this time. I’ll update this post when I learn more.)

• How to revise your to-do list so you’ll accomplish what matters most without fail every day;
• Why you must focus on non-urgent tasks to maximize your effectiveness;
• How to handle e-mail effectively;
• Why multi-tasking actually costs you time and undermines your work product; and
• The six steps for effective delegation and the five most common delegation mistakes.

Julie A. Fleming, J.D., A.C.C. is the founder of Life at the Bar LLC. Julie practiced law (specializing in patent litigation) for over a decade in firms ranging from two to more than 2,000 lawyers, before founding Life at the Bar LLC in 2005. She provides attorney development coaching and consulting (focusing on topics such as rainmaking, professional development, career strategy, leadership development, and work/life integration) and is a frequent speaker for law firms, bar associations, and law schools. Julie also publishes the weekly email newsletter Leadership Matters for Lawyers.

Join us for this teleconference on Thursday, May 21 at 3 p.m. Eastern (noon Pacific).

This program will be presented as a “tele-webinar.” In a tele-webinar, you call in to a conference call line to receive the audio portion of the program. If you have access to your computer, you can follow along with a Power Point presentation as well. There is no need to install any software on your computer. If you will be calling in from outside the office, don’t worry: you can view or print the slides before the program, if you wish.

Your registration includes participation in the live teleseminar and a copy of the program recording (mp3). To register, visit our Products page and add a Silver Membership to your cart.