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Tech vendors! Four speakers from this year’s ABA TECHSHOW! A white tablecloth luncheon! CLE specifically for small firms! Prizes!

I just returned from the Marriott on Main Street in Columbia, where I viewed the location of our 2011 Solo & Small Firm CLE and Annual Meeting to be held September 23. It is going to be great! We will have two ballrooms for our simultaneous CLE tracks – one track for technology for small firms and the other for law office management. For the plenary sessions on ethics and Tips, the hotel will combine the rooms by taking out the center wall. The speakers are experts in practice management and technology, and we will have a sprinkle of South Carolina lawyers speaking and doing product demonstrations.

Just outside the ballrooms, in the common area, we have space for 15 tech and office vendors, whom we are busy contacting. We are approaching vendors who will be of particular interest to small firms. We’ll have the breakfast out in the vendor area, so be sure to come early that day. For lunch, we will stroll through the vendor area to a separate ballroom set up for our seated affair. It will be an opportunity to see one another as well as mingle with the speakers and vendors.  And there will be prize drawings!

The Marriott looks great since its remodeling. Since you do want to get there early, you can stay at the hotel at the special rate of $129, or stay at any of the other excellent hotels nearby. The meeting is on Friday, and the next day is a home football game for Carolina (vs. Vanderbilt).

Last year’s Hot Tips seminar was a warm-up to this much larger CLE and meeting. We believe it will be something really fun and very special. Mark your calendar and save your pennies!

Are you having challenges marketing your firm? Many lawyers feel that most referrals come from other lawyers.  If you are a South Carolina Bar member practicing alone or in a firm with five or fewer lawyers, include yourself in the Solo and Small Firm Section’s Solo and Small Firm Practice Area Directory. The Directory is accessible from the Section’s homepage, www.scbar.org/solo and contains practice area information about fellow small firm lawyers in South Carolina. Because the Directory is cross-referenced by both practice area and geographical area, finding a lawyer is quick and simple. The Directory can be viewed online or downloaded and saved as a PDF file. The PDF also contains information for how to print the Directory so that it looks like a book. For inclusion in the directory, small firm lawyers must complete a brief online survey. Questions may be directed to Courtney Kennaday, Practice Management Advisor and Solo and Small Firm Section liaison, at pmap@scbar.org.

The South Carolina Bar Solo & Small Firm Practice Area Directory has been updated to reflect recent additions and changes. You can find it here and either download a copy or read the copy from your PDF viewer.  If you aren’t in the Directory yet, but would like to be, go to the SSF Section home page and click the survey link to sign up.