Lawyers News And Updates: Solo Practice University

Solo Practice University, founded by Susan Cartier Liebel, is an online collection of courses that help you with the practice of law. The sessions are pre-recorded so you can watch and listen to them at your convenience, with new classes added regularly. She started Solo Practice University after her experience teaching a course called How to Hang a Shingle Right Out of Law School at Quinnipiac University School of Law. Lawyers and law students alike can learn the nuts and bolts of starting, running, and maintaining a law practice from the convenience of their home.

Solo Practice University Highlights

Convenience. Solo Practice University’s collection of pre-recorded online courses means you can learn at your own pace on topics like marketing and management, work-life balance, technology, and substantive legal courses.

Faculty moderation. Classroom and teacher interaction is always a challenge with online courses. Solo Practice University offers faculty-moderated study groups and forums and access to all faculty to help facilitate student interactions and to help you get more out of your courses.

Start blogging. With your Solo Practice University subscription, you also have the option to create your own private or public blog or website with a custom domain. Solo Practice also offers hosting services and support from an experienced website developer in case you run into any snags while blogging.

Solo Practice University Pricing

Solo Practice University offers two pricing tiers.

The monthly pricing option is $245 for the first month, then $65 per month after that. This tier provides unlimited access to all published courses, unlimited community participation, unlimited blogs and websites, and discounts on their products and services.

Its semi-annual pricing is $445 per six months and offers everything the monthly pricing offers, plus a free law practice management consultation.

Solo Practice University also offers discounts for bulk pricing and for law students.

There is no free trial, but it does offer some free sample classes.

Things You Might Want to Know

Consultations with subscription only. If you want to schedule a private one-on-one consultation with someone from Solo Practice University, you need to sign up for a semi-annual level subscription. You cannot purchase their one-on-one consultations separately.

Discounts on products. Subscription to Solo Practice University comes with discounts on books, insurance, law practice management products, and professional services, including law practice management software and virtual receptionist services.

One of many MOOCs. Massive open online courses, or MOOCs—like Edx or MIT OpenCourseWare, among many others—may offer classes similar to what you’re looking for with Solo Practice University. This is particularly true for substantive legal courses or management courses. Those courses usually are not catered to legal professionals specifically, though. Still, if Solo Practice University’s pricing seems steep or they don’t have a session on something you’re interested in, it’s worth exploring the MOOC option.

Who Solo Practice University Is For

If you already know what you want to learn, and know you want to do it at your own pace without the pressure of assignments or deadlines, Solo Practice University might be a good fit for you. Take a look at the course list to see if they are a good fit for you.

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