Seminars and Speaking Engagements

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Mr. Foonberg facilitates and conducts educational and motivational seminars on a variety of subjects for private law firms, bar associations and CLE providers.

He is one of the most highly sought after CLE presenters. He consistently rates between 4.85 and 5.00 on audience evaluations on the standard CLE scale of 1 to 5 (Superior = 5, Excellent = 4, Good = 3, Fair = 2, and Poor = 1).

Mr. Foonberg is both a practicing attorney and a CPA who has spoken more than 1,000 times in every US state, on every continent and in many foreign countries for local, state, national and international bar associations and firms.

He uses the technique of responding to audience questions and appropriate visual aids to make every seminar unique and fitted to the needs of the audience. Standing ovations are frequent at the end of his highly motivational presentations.

A practicing lawyer, he has served in the ABA House of Delegates, as a founder and former Council Member of the Law Practice Management Section, and was chair of the State Bar of California's Law Practice Management Section. He has been honored many times by the American Bar Association including the rare Platinum Key of the Law Students Division.

His books, How to Start and Build a Law Practice and How to Get & Keep Good Clients are ABA best sellers. How to Start and Build a Law Practice is the most stolen book from law libraries in the United States.

Mr. Foonberg is the recipient of the prestigious Harrison Tweed Award given by the ABA-PLI Consortium on Legal Education as the most outstanding post law school Continuing Legal Educator in the United States.

He has also been honored as the most outstanding Attorney-CPA in the United States.

He can tailor his presentations to fit with the theme of a convention or meeting.

His programs are normally granted CLE Accreditation in one or more of the following areas: Law Office Management, Ethics, Elimination of Gender Bias, Client Relations, Risk Management, Malpractice Avoidance, etc.

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Mr. Foonberg can speak on one or more of the following topics:

• Client Relations 101 - The Course They Don't Teach in Law School
• How to Ethically Get and Keep Good Clients
• What Clients Really Want and How to Give it to Them
• The Golden Rule of Client Relations is Dead. Learn the Platinum Rule.
  Clients and potential clients are empowered and educated by the Internet, CNN and cell phones. They can and do make choices concerning legal help and lawyers that they believe will satisfy their needs. Learn what your clients and potential clients really want.
• How to Get and Keep Good Clients
  A law practice gets its best and most profitable clients from repeat clients, referrals from happy clients and referrals from other lawyers and professionals. Learn how to increase the referrals of good clients.
• Putting Happiness Back in Your Practice
  Do you feel close to burn out? Do you feel like a mouse on a treadmill always running just to stand still? Are you running your practice or is your practice running you? Learn simple ways of making big changes in your life.
• Quality of Life - Restructuring Your Life, Your Time and Your Practice to be More Efficient and to Achieve More Happiness
  Work smarter not harder to achieve you practice and personal goals.
  Work on your practice, not in your practice.
• Quality of Life - Are You Catching the Golden Ring and Missing the Boat?
• Quality of Life - Managing Your Time and Your Practice to Have it All
• Reducing Malpractice Risk and Ethics Complaints Through Good Client Relations While Simultaneously Increasing Profits
• Good Ethics = Happy Clients = Good Profits
• Is There a Future for the Solo and the Small Firm in America?
• Reducing and Getting Rid of Stress and the Disease of Dis-Ease - How Stress Reduces Your Health and Your Income.
  How to deal with the common causes of stress in the practice of law (other lawyers, demanding clients, hostile judges, etc.). Law is an extremely stressful profession, but much of the stress can be avoided with stress avoidance techniques.
• Alcohol and Substance Abuse
• Managing Your Trust Account to Avoid Problems - Do's and Don'ts of Handling Client Funds and Fees
• Recognizing and Resolving Conflicts of Interest in Multi-Client Representation
• You Know How to Practice Law Like a Professional, But Are You Managing Your Practice Like a Professional?
  Just being a good lawyer is no longer enough in today's world.
  A successful law practice is like a three-legged stool. The first leg is knowing the law. You must know the law in your areas of practice. The second leg is having clients. You must have clients for whom you can practice law. The third leg is managing your practice. You must be able to efficiently manage your practice to get legal services out the door at a price the client can afford to pay and which leaves you a reasonable profit. Just being a good lawyer is no longer enough in today's world. To succeed economically and be happy as a lawyer, finding professional fulfillment, all three elements must be present. If one element is missing the stool will topple.
  Sharpen your management skills. Get the latest information. Learn what clients want from you and how you can deliver in a world of changing client expectations, global competition, competition from non-lawyers and clients who go to the Internet to get forms and legal information. Learn how to avoid the common mistakes and to emphasize your best practices. Learn how to get rid of stressful clients and avoid stressful situations commonly found in law practices. You, your firm, your clients and your family will benefit from your time with Mr. Foonberg. See for yourself why he is one of the most highly sought after CLE educators in the United States.
  
• Retirement - Knowing When to Hold 'Em and Knowing When to Fold 'Em
  Age is just a number. How will you know when it's time? Do you have an exit plan? Will your retirement be a rebirth or a death sentence? Are you considering making some changes? Your retirement may be voluntary or involuntary. You will spend 1/3rd of your adult life in "retirement". An exit plan will help you make the transition out of full time law practice. Begin now to plan your retirement. Easily implemented tips and techniques.
• Increase Profitability and Free Time - Learn How to Work "On Your Practice" Instead of "In Your Practice"
• How to Achieve Fame and Fortune Beyond Greed and Avarice
  Much of what you need to do to increase profits and quality of life is simple and inexpensive to accomplish. Learn what you can do to increase client satisfaction and net profit.
  
• How to Start and Build a Law Practice
  Am I really competent? How will I get clients? How much cash do I need? Do I need a secretary or an assistant? New lawyers have been asking these questions for as long as there have been new lawyers. This program has patterned after Mr. Foonberg's all time best selling book How to Start and Build a Law Practice.
  
• Is There a Future for the Small Law Firm in America?

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Mr. Foonberg's programs can be presented in varying lengths for CLE purposes in lengths from 50 minutes to 6 hours.

Private Law Firm Seminars
Mr. Foonberg conducts one and two day retreat seminars to teach the fundamentals of lawyer marketing and excellent client relations. His motivational training teaches and enthuses new associates. He also refreshes partners memories and stimulates them to go back to the ways that work. His seminars also reinforce the role and importance of marketing directors and marketing committees.

Mr. Foonberg has assisted many law firms as a consultant in Trust Account and Conflicts matters.

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To arrange for speaking engagements and seminars please contact:

Mr. Foonberg
Jay@FoonbergLaw.com
Telephone: (877) FOON-LAW [366-6529]
Facsimile: (310) 652-5019

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