Solo & Small Firm Section

Happy New Year valued Solo Small Firm Community. The new year and decade hopefully has given you revitalization and drive to make and meet your goals. SSF is absolutely here to help you with any and all of these facets, whether it be getting the education and training you need, how to implement what you learned, to continued support for you and your firm professionally and even personally through wellness awareness. Read more

Join our webinar! This program will identify seven important legal issues, including (1) premarital gifts (engagement rings); (2) premarital contracts; (3) post-marital contracts; (4) separate property assets; (5) marital property; (6) separate property income; and (7)marital property income and assets. Read more

Attorneys may be quick to say that they are not biased, but the truth is that there is bias everywhere. In us, in our clients and potential clients, in our opposing counsel and in our courtrooms. Our job must be to work to identify potential biases and make sure that we understand our actions to keep the justice system as fair and impartial as possible. Read more

CLA Solo Small Firm Section partnered up with the newly formed Solo Small Firm Section of L.A. County Bar for our first outside agency joint M.C.L.E. programming held at the LA County Bar building. Read more

When it comes to office space, lawyers have many options. Possibilities include working from home or a café (as long as you’re on encrypted wi-fi and use a VPN) with a completely virtual relationship with clients to investing in your own space at a high-end high rise. Read more

Often when having conversations with colleagues, students, and mentors, lurking in the background or engaging with the moment is the question, how does one become a success? For conversations in the aforementioned scenario are generally about finding or learning some piece of information that helps someone grow. Success is personal to the beholder, internally and externally focused, and there is no one path. If anything, success is determined by what matters to you, others, and is anything but linear. Read more

It’s December and I can’t believe it. I am finding it true that the older I get, the faster the year goes. Maybe it’s just that as SSF attorneys, we are always so busy…getting clients, keeping clients, working our cases, unjamming the printer, and trying to reconcile our end-of-year Quickbooks all while trying to have life with our friends and families. But as it is the holiday season, I think the most useful message I could convey is to remind everyone that the work wheel will always turn, but the time we take to enjoy our friends and family rejuvenates, relaxes and allows us to decompress and re-focus. Read more

This program offers 1 MCLE credit; 1 Legal Specialization in Family Law. You must register in advance to participate. This program will provide attorneys with identification of issues, and problematic provisions in drafting Stipulated Orders and Judgments in Family Law and mechanisms to enforce property and support provisions after the orders have been made. Speakers: Evie Jeang, Ritzel Ngo, Richard Weissman Read more

By Sabrina Green, Chair, Solo and Small Firm Section It is with saddened hearts that Solo Small Firm Section Executive Committee must announce the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Philip Shapiro who passed away Saturday night.  Philip was an extraordinary person. He was devoted to his family, the San Diego legal community, and to the SSF community.  Philip A. Shapiro was born in Chicago, Illinois. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school. After active duty, he… Read more

The Section annually recognizes solo and small firm practitioners with the Section’s Excellence in Practice and Excellence in Service awards. The honorees are recognized and celebrated annually at the Solo and Small Firm Summit. Read more