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Topics: Strategic Planning, Lawyer, Lawyers, Legal, Succession Planning, Business Continuity, Practice Management, Business Plans for Lawyers, Law Firm Expert

About: Ed Poll, J.D., M.B.A., CMC, is a nationally-recognized expert in law practice management. He coaches attorneys to increased profitability, consulting with them on issues of internal operations, business development, and financial matters. Ed brings his clients a solid background in both law and business. He has 25 years experience as a practicing attorney and has also served as CEO and COO for several manufacturing businesses. Poll is the author of numerous publications that have become the definitive works in the field and is a syndicated columnist for the Dolan Press; he also writes for the Association of Legal Administrators. He publishes a weekly LawBiz(R) Tips and blogs regularly at www.LawBizBlog.com. He?s a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management & a charter member of the Million Dollar Consulting Hall of Fame. No one knows more about running a law practice than Ed does.

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About: At age 14, Jeremiah Bourgeois became one of the youngest children in the United States to be sentenced to life without parole. He was freed after 27 years due to the US Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama (2012), and six months later he became a law student at Gonzaga University School of Law. While confined, he wrote articles in law journals, was cited as secondary authority by an intermediate appellate court, became a columnist for a criminal justice news site, and was the first imprisoned person to become a member of Scribes--The American Society of Legal Writers. Upon being freed, he began lecturing at law schools, to legislators, and at corporate law offices. Six months later he became a JD candidate at Gonzaga University School of Law.