General credits: 4.00
Ethics credits: 3.50

March 2009

 

Fuel the Spark: 5 Guiding Values for Success in Law 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 exciting new 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.

 

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.

 

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?

 

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.

 

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.

 

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 (June 2009), both published by Morgan James Publishing. He contributed a chapter on the legal issues of social media in the best-selling book Twitter Power, by Joel Comm, published by Wiley Brothers Publishing.

 

Kevin is an expert at helping people reach their creative potential, whether it be as an entrepreneur or as an attorney. 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.