GPSolo eReport March 2021

Lawyer Wellness

Mindfulness 101: Enhance Your Negotiation Skills Through Mindfulness

By Scott L. Rogers

Mindfulness practices can help you maintain or reestablish a heightened degree of awareness while negotiating. (6 minutes to read ∙ 1400 words)

Practice Management

SPONSORED CONTENT: Is Your Retirement Plan Realistic?

By ABA Retirement Funds

Whether you are years away from retirement or are about to leave the workforce for good, it’s critical to have a realistic plan in place. (4 minutes to read ∙ 800 words)

Business Development

Building a Practice: Networking Conversations Turn You and Me into Us

By Carol Schiro Greenwald

Helpful advice on every aspect of running a practice, from opening doors through planning for retirement. This month our series on living marketing plans concludes with a look at relationship-building conversations. (8 minutes to read · 1800 words)

Professional Development

Defining Moments, Insights into the Lawyer’s Soul: Deborah Roberts

By Melanie Bragg

This month we focus on Deborah Roberts, who spoke at the GPSolo Division’s Fifth Annual Present and Powerful Women’s Speaker Series on the subject “Know Your Worth: The Audacity to Believe in You.” (10 minutes to read · 2200 words)

Practice Technology

Ask Techie: How Can I Look Less Scary on Zoom?

In this month’s technology Q&A column, our panel answers your questions about how to look your best on teleconferences, how to back up e-mails in Outlook, and how to easily change text from uppercase to lowercase. (6 minutes to read ∙ 1400 words)

Practice Technology

Protect Your Practice: How to Avoid Phishing Scams

By Matthew Murrell

Armed with basic knowledge and a few solutions, you can protect yourself from what may be the number-one security risk to your practice. (9 minutes to read ∙ 2000 words)

Practice Technology

TAPAs: Time Management Tools

By Jeffrey Allen and Ashley Hallene

Technological And Practice Advice to help you become more efficient and effective. This month: tips and tools to better manage the life cycles of your tasks. (4 minutes to read ∙ 1000 words)

Labor & Employment

Diversity in the Law: Gender Transition in the Workplace: An Employee Policy Template

This employee policy template is tailored to the needs of transgender employees, including procedures when an employee transitions from presenting as one sex to presenting as another. (33 minutes to read ∙ 7500 words)

Elder

Book Synopsis: The Problem of Alzheimer’s by Jason Karlawish

Synopsis by David Godfrey

This book is essential reading for anyone in their later years, someone with aging family members, and even elder law attorneys. (6 minutes to read ∙ 1400 words)

Family

Legislation Addressing Child Custody and Child Support Challenges of Noncustodial Parents

By Scott C. Trout

Several states have introduced legislation to more realistically appraise child support obligations and to create greater equity in parenting time between former spouses. (4 minutes to read ∙ 800 words)

Elder

Nursing Home Costs and Contracts: The Continuum of Care

By Karren Jo Pope-Onwukwe

Discover how a prominent elder law attorney deals with what can be the hardest choice her clients make: the choice for long-term care. (2 minutes to read ∙ 300 words)

Professional Development

New Members: Tell Us a Little Bit about Yourself

By Anu Murthy

This month we profile Anu Murthy, a new Division member who advises licensed health care professionals on legal and regulatory matters in their practices. (2 minutes to read ∙ 400 words)

General Practice

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