Solo and Small-Firm Law Practice Concentration

Embracing the “new normal” in the legal profession, the law faculty at the St. Mary’s University School of Law approved a solo and small-firm practitioners concentration in 2015. Students will gain skills necessary to launch their own solo or small firms through this concentration, which includes the following courses:

• Accounting for lawyers or numerical literacy for lawyers — 2 or 3 hours
• Advanced legal research & writing — 2 or 3 hours
• Ethics for the small firm or solo attorney — 2 hours
• Law practice management — 2 hours
• Legal practice technology and law — 2 or 3 hours
• Marketing and business development for lawyers — 2 hours
• Skills requirement — 6 hours