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Getting Started Solo - An ALPS Practice Management Program
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This program will identify and focus on the principal business decisions and ethical issues an attorney should address while going through the process of establishing a solo practice.
A Sampling of Attendee Takeaways:
- An explanation of the basics of setting up and maintaining a client trust account
- An awareness of the risks one can and should insure to include an explanation of the basics of malpractice insurance
- How to properly calendar and check for conflicts of interest.
- An understanding of the key elements of an engagement letter.
Program materials: 60+ pages of downloadable written materials will be made available to program attendees.
Mark Bassingthwaighte, Esq., Risk Manager, ALPS
Since 1998, Mark Bassingthwaighte, Esq., has been a Risk Manager with ALPS, the nation’s largest direct writer of lawyers’ malpractice insurance. In his tenure with our company, Mr. Bassingthwaighte has conducted over 1200 law firm risk management assessment visits, presented over 600 continuing legal education seminars throughout the United States, and written extensively on risk management, ethics, and technology. Mr. Bassingthwaighte is a member of the State Bar of Montana as well as the American Bar Association where he currently sits on the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility’s Conference Planning Committee. He received his J.D. from Drake University Law School.
