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Ready to break off into your own practice, but don’t know if you’re quite ready? Running a successful law firm takes more than being a great lawyer; It also requires sound business management.
Join our panel of experts to learn more about the nuts and bolts of starting and running a viable law practice and receive practical guidance from attorneys who have successfully transitioned into their own practices. The panel includes Ted Kim of Kim Law Advisors & Leo Sullivan of Sullivan Lawyers. Debra Baker of Legal Vertical Strategies moderates the event.
How to Start and Run a Successful Law Practice.
About Debra Baker
Debra Baker, Esq., helps providers of legal services and products drive revenue through the execution of client-focused business strategies. She serves as chair of the LVS Law Firm Services Group and is author of the blog Law Firm Transitions.
With more than 20 years experience working across the legal vertical, Debra incorporates a disciplined, cross-organizational approach to help clients grow their business. Her experience includes senior level marketing positions for both a Global 100 law firm and a leading e-discovery company. An award-winning legal journalist, she covered law practice management and ethics for the ABA Journal.
Debra’s in-depth experience working with law firm, legal technology, and corporate legal business models brings a multi-dimensional perspective to clients looking to better position their services and products. She has a proven record identifying new markets, targeting clients and building integrated marketing campaigns to generate leads and expand market share.
At LVS, Debra advises law firms and legal service providers on how to develop internal programs customized around the needs and expectations of existing clients. Her approach includes the use of financial modeling, market research, competitive intelligence, and client interviews to develop client relationship management programs with metrics built in to measure return on investment.
About Leo Sullivan
Leo Sullivan is a real estate lawyer. He represents land owners and developers in the development, leasing and financing of large-scale biotech, office, shopping center, industrial, commercial, and apartment projects. He has worked on the development of biotech facilities in San Diego, Seattle, Boston, and Durham; Internet data centers in Los Angeles, Irvine, and Seattle; shopping centers in San Diego, Los Angeles and Palm Desert; apartment projects in Irvine, Anaheim, El Segundo, Truckee and the Bay Area; Transit-oriented apartment, office and hotel projects in San Francisco’s East Bay; and numerous office, industrial, commercial and retail projects in San Diego County. He was named by San Diego Magazine as one of the top five real estate attorneys in San Diego. He typically handles in excess of $750 million in transactions per year.
Leo is also a business lawyer, with over thirty years experience not only in real estate but in business, trusts, and related disciplines. He is experienced in partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies, land use, construction, title insurance, complex financing arrangements, real estate workouts and bankruptcy. Leo has represented family-owned and entrepreneurial businesses, and debtors in possession, creditors committees, and individual creditors in Chapter 11. He has handled stock and asset sales (mergers and acquisitions) in the tens of millions of dollars, recently completing a $75 million acquisition of a waste hauling firm. He has extensive experience in estate planning, probate, will contests, and trust litigation (which in years past he taught at Cal Western Law School and for the California and San Diego Trial Lawyers Associations).
About Ted Kim
Prior to Kim Law Advisors,
Ted was a shareholder of Heller Ehrman LLP from 2003 to 2008. He began his legal career with Venture Law Group, where he joined its first associate class in 1995, until the merger of Venture Law Group with Heller Ehrman in 2003.
Ted practices corporate and securities law, representing emerging growth companies in general corporate matters, venture capital financings, technology transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. His clients include companies in the medical device, life sciences, software, telecommunications and electronics industries. In addition, Ted represents a number of venture capital funds in their portfolio investments. In his career, Ted has completed over 300 venture capital financings.
Ted received his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School (cum laude, 1995), his M.B.A. degree from The Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan (1994) and his A.B. degree in biology from Bowdoin College (magna cum laude, 1988).
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Practice Areas: Business Law | Sports and Entertainment | Personal Injury | Litigation | Family Law | Criminal Law
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