2 New Fuel The Spark CLE Opportunities

Need a Few Last-Minute Ethics Credits?

I’ll be doing two full 4-hour versions of my Fuel The Spark: 5 Guiding Values for Success in Law & Life CLE Ethics Programs in the next few weeks.

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A couple things previous attendees have said:

“A Massage for Your Career.”

– ABA Annual Meeting Program Participant.

“The Best CLE Program I’ve Attended in 27 Years.”

– Program Attendee, Reno NV

If you’re in Northern Colorado, attend:

Friday, December 17th, 2010

8:30am-1:00pm

General Credits: 4.0

Ethics Credits: 3.5

Jury Assembly Room, Larimer County Court House

$60 in Advance. $75 at the Door.  All proceeds go to the Larimer County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division.

(Compare to $199 CoBar Home Study CLE Program)

REGISTRATION:

Young Lawyers Division, Larimer County Bar Association

c/o Josh Dart, Esq.

19 Old Town Square, Ste. 238

Fort Collins, CO 80524

For more info:

email: josh@dartlegal.com

phone: (970) 407-0090

NOTE: The Jury Assembly Room only has space for 50 people, so you’ll want to reserve your seat early. Tickets will go fast.


If you can’t attend in person, you can join online via a Webinar hosted by my friend Kendra Brodin and her Women Lawyers Online group.

Dates: December 8th & 9th @ 3:00-4:30PM EASTERN

Location: Online

Fee: TBD

Credits: (3-4 General & Ethics – will have final details soon)

Registration Information: kendra@kendrabrodin.com


All Participants will receive:

  1. 1. A copy of Kevin Houchin’s most popular book: Fuel the Spark, 5 Guiding Values for Success in Law and Life.
  2. 2. 40-Page Fuel the Spark Action Guide to help you integrate the content into your practice and life.

Program Description:

Sometimes we all need to look at things from a different perspective. This applies to both our personal and professional lives and how they blend into a successful and fulfilling legal career. Join Kevin Houchin for this nationally recognized Ethics program devoted to finding a more balanced perspective on the rules of professional responsibility and how we can put the rules into an easy system for finding more success in our practice and our lives. This intensive interactive workshop could be the best 3 hours you’ll invest in yourself this year.

Topics

The most profound choice any of us make is either to accept things the way they exist, or to accept our personal responsibility to change them.

PR Rules:

1.2: Scope of Representation

1.7 & 1.8: Conflict of Interest

1.13 Organization as Client

1.18 Duties to Prospective Client

Many successful people have found the simplest rule to success in anything is to “show up.” However, deciding where to show up and how to manage yourself when you get there can be a challenge.

PR Rules:

1.4: Communication

7.1: Communication Concerning a Lawyer’s Services

7.2: Advertising

7.3: Direct Contact with Prospective Clients

7.4: Communication of Fields of Practice

One of the hardest things to do in legal practice and in life is to truly pay attention. We get pulled in so many directions, so how can be do a better job of staying in the moment and how does that help our clients and colleagues?

PR Rules:

2.1: Advisor

5.x: Series

It’s easy to get bored and it happens to us all, so how can we avoid boredom and stay sharp? The answer is to keep multiple irons in the fire at once, paying attention to each in turn.

PR Rules:

1.1: Competence

1.3: Diligence

True fulfillment in legal practice and in life comes when you take the time to give back. Stewardship is the combination of giving ones time, talent, or treasure. This portion of the program helps define how you’ll make your greatest contribution.

PR Rules:

6.1: Voluntary Pro Bono Publico Service

6.2: Accepting Appointments

Faculty

Kevin E. Houchin is a different kind of lawyer. First, he has a fine art degree in graphic design and a dozen years of brand development and small business consulting before going back to law school. He uses both his marketing and legal skills every day in his efforts to help creative people reach their potential.

Kevin counsels creative people about how to maximize their creativity, build their businesses, and protect their intellectual property. Discussions tend to turn toward relationships and creative collaboration often, so sometimes Kevin plays the role of business and life coach in addition to attorney and marketing consultant. He truly enjoys the role of trusted advisor to his clients.

Kevin is the author of the book Fuel the Spark: 5 Guiding Values for Success in Law School and Beyond (March 2009). He is also the author of the forthcoming book The Secrets of Creative Business. He contributed a chapter on the legal issues of social media in the best-selling book Twitter Power, and is featured in KaChing, both by Joel Comm, published by Wiley Brothers Publishing.

Kevin is expert at helping people reach their creative potential, whether as an entrepreneur or as an attorney. He is the Founder of The Space Between Center for Creative Spirit in Business – an organization to helping entrepreneurs including attorneys align who they are with what they do. In addition to working with clients, Kevin writes a regular column for the leading business journal in Northern Colorado, blogs regularly at his several sites, and enjoys one of the top legal followings on Twitter.com. He speaks regularly for creative entrepreneurial business, continuing legal education, and law school audiences throughout the United States.

Money.CNN.com – FTC Article

I was quoted in a recent article on Money.CNN.Com about the FTC Guidelines for Testimonials and Endorsements.

If you’re visiting this site because of that article, you’re probably looking for the compliance tool mentioned next to my name.  You can find that tool, The FTC Toolkit, HERE.

Here’s the article on Money.CNN.Com.

Seasons’ Feelings: Handling Holiday Stress

Here they come.

Those Annual events intended to bring joy, hope and love. Sometimes they bring anxiety, stress, depression and exhaustion.

  • Thanksgiving
  • Hanukkah
  • Christmas
  • New Year’s Eve

And all the family, business and social gatherings to celebrate the season.

Oh, and the shopping.

And the kids’ programs. Those incredibly long kids programs filled with other peoples’ kids who really aren’t THAT cute.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a lawyer, doctor, or pro coffee barista–we can all use a few pointers on dealing with the Seasons’ Feelings.

ACCEPT OUR HOLIDAY GIFT TO YOU – no strings.

Join professional coach and attorney Kendra Brodin as she joins Space Between Center founder and entrepreneurial lawyer Kevin Houchin on Tuesday, November 9th at 12:00 Noon EASTERN for a free “Seasons’ Feelings” conference call.

This call is really a free gift from us to you in this hectic season. We take work-life balance seriously for ourselves, our members and our community. We want you to join the discussion of how to deal with holiday stress.

Kendra and Kevin will help you understand and implement with:

  1. The cultural underpinnings of seasonal stress.
  2. The primary stressors themselves and how to recognize effects of stress in your life.
  3. Coping strategies for making the most of the opportunities for joy and happiness at the heart of seasonal events.

They will be sure to save some time at the end of the call for YOUR questions.

Get the holiday season off to a positive start and give yourself the gift of tools for staying in the positive holiday season. Make the most of these opportunities to share who you really are with the people in your life.

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Some More Information on the Hosts

KENDRA BRODIN

www.kendrabrodin.com

www.womenlawyersonline.com

Kendra Brodin, MSW, JD, is Founder and CEO of Kendra Brodin Companies, LLC and WomenLawyersOnline.com, the premier online resource for women lawyers. Kendra’s work focuses on consulting, training, and the creation of products and services with the ultimate goal of reducing gender bias in the legal profession by increasing the attraction, retention, and advancement of women lawyers. With a powerful background as a social worker, lawyer, and consultant, Kendra supports women attorneys and their law firms.

KEVIN HOUCHIN

www.houchinlaw.com

www.spacebetweencenter.org

Kevin E. Houchin is the founder of The Space Between Center for Creative Spirit in Business. He advises creative people on how to maximize creativity, build businesses, and protect intellectual property. Kevin has a BFA in Graphic Design from Iowa State University, 20 years of conventional and online marketing experience, and a JD from The University of Iowa College of Law where his studies focused on small business and intellectual property law. Kevin writes about how to get the most out of law practice in his book Fuel the Spark: 5 Guiding Values for Success in Law & Life. He is also the author of the forthcoming The Secrets of Creative Business.

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Space Between Center Inside-Out Program Invitation

Introducing the new Space Between Center “Inside-Out” Development Program. If you’re looking to get your act together and finish strong in 2010 with the momentum to have an outstanding 2011 – this is for YOU.

Visit the INVITATION PAGE for the program details.

Two Things @ Once

It’s a really busy few days. So, I have two things to update you on.

1. Space Between Center Lawyer Mastermind

We’ve had a huge response to the F-Word Manifesto talk at the ABA Annual Meeting. So, we’ve scheduled an informational call for attorneys interested in learning more about flat-fee billing models for their law firms and potentially joining our lawyer mastermind group. That call is Thursday, September 23rd at NOON EASTERN. The call details are:

(205) 747-2164
PIN: 324614
PW: 0923

2. INSIDE-OUT Development Program

We’re introducing a new Personal/Professional/Business Development program for ANYONE wanting to escape the billable hour trap and align who they are with what they do. You can find out more about that program and join us by clicking INSIDE-OUT INVITATION.

I’ll be letting people know about this as part of my F-Word Manifesto talk tonight at Ignite Fort Collins. You can watch the presentation via live streaming here tonight starting at 7pm MOUNTAIN: http://bit.ly/ifclivestream

Exiting times.