HeyCounsel Pulse (May 5, 2025)

🌟 the tl;dr

1. Last week members talked about a Claims Purchase Agreement(?) from a debt collection agency in relation to a non-paying client, voted on how they use ChatGPT, and discussed how to properly mix a law practice with other lines of business.

2. Members also discussed the best keyboard/mouse tool for Mac products, CRM tools and contract management tools for large organizations.

3. HeyCounsel members don’t have a shortage of opportunities! Searching for a NJ employment attorney in a case involving a school nurse, immigration attorneys to provide advice to a UK citizen, and assistance with an E3 visa for an individual from Australia.

4. Angelik Holloway, Bianca Miron, Frank Gerratana, Brianna Anderson and Gary Damico recently joined. Please make sure to say hello!

5. Please don’t forget to sign up for our upcoming learning and networking sessions: My Law Firm Tech Stack - Show & Tell (5/9); Trust Accounts Q&A (5/15); Wins & Lessons Learned Operations Roundtable (5/16); Fractional GC Meet-Up (5/21); Accounting & Bookkeeping Q&A with Agate (5/29); and HeyCounsel Lunch Club (5/30).

📆 Upcoming Events

CHECK THEM ALL OUT HERE

1. My Law Firm Tech Stack (Show & Tell) (5/9) - Registration Link - Come show off your tech stack and see what others are doing too!

2. Trust Account Q&A (5/15) - Registration Link - Member Kimberly DeCarrera offers her expertise for a Q&A regarding trust accounting.

3. Wins & Lessons Learned (Firm Operations) (5/16) - Registration Link - Share some firm operations lessons and recent successes.

4. Fractional GC Meetup (5/21) - Registration Link - Ask questions and talk strategy with other fractional GCs.

5. Accounting & Bookkeeping Q&A with Agate CPA (5/29) - Registration Link - Join our friends from Agate to talk accounting and bookkeeping strategy.

6. HeyCounsel Lunch Club (5/30) - Registration Link - Comes have lunch with some of our members.

🚀 New client opportunities this week

Here are a few of our favorite opportunities that have popped up this week. Want the full list? Head to our dashboard or jump in to our #03-opportunities channel!

1. Searching for a NJ employment attorney in a case involving a school nurse.

2. Immigration attorney to help with a UK citizen looking to travel to the US.

3. Help with an E3 visa for an individual from Australia.

4. Nicole Strothman and Moxie are hiring a Fractional GC.

5. Bankruptcy attorney to help in a NY bankruptcy proceeding.

💬 Discussion Spotlight

Using ChatGPT

Marcus Hoag prompts the question of how members are using ChatGPT…

Maintaining Insurance with Different Lines of Business

Members recommend folding their legal practice and other/similar lines of business under one EIN, while maintain separate and distinct insurance policies for each portion of the business.

⚡️ Legal tech and vendors worth talking about

Here’s what our members are recommending in the tech space…

• Mouse and Keyboard recs for Apple computers.

• Organizing prospects in a CRM.

• Contract management tools for large orgs.

 📃 New templates recently added to our template database

• Secondment Engagement Letter

• Talent Appearance/Independent Contract Agreement

• CA Employment Agreement

🏆 Member of the Week

👋 Meet our newest members…

• Angelik Holloway - Angelik owns Edmonds Law Office in Atlanta, Georgia, which focuses on helping doctors in the healthcare business with outside general counsel services. Angelik also has an 8 year old boxer lab named Grover and loves heavy weightlifting at the gym.

• Bianca Miron- Bianca is based in the UK and has a background in the media, entertainment and tech spaces. Bianca is a Fractional Counsel and provides services to various companies and legal departments with a focus on commercial needs.

• Frank Gerratana - Frank is a Boston-based IP and technology attorney with Calyx Law LLP, after having spend the last 17 years in BigLaw. Frank’s practice is focused on startups, IP strategy, patent portfolio development and tech transactions, among other things.

• Brianna Anderson - Brianna is an energy attorney based in North Dakota that focuses on mineral law and emerging technologies in the space.

• Gary Damico - Gary is a real estate and business attorney based in Towson, MD, with a focus on CRE transactions, business formation, governance, private residential sales and other matters. Gary also serves as outside general counsel to a number of small businesses, including property management companies, constructions trades, residential builders and full-time investors.

Till next time,

HeyCounsel Weekly Pulse