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Finis is proud to announce his placement as a full-faculty member of Solo Practice University (SPU), a revolutionary new web-based educational community that picks up where the legal education of law school left off. SPU offers courses from various progressive lawyers, marketing professionals, technology consultants and legal business consultants on how to plan, build and grow your private practice, differentiate yourself from the competition and attract and engage new clients more easily and many, many other topics which will assist any solo practitioner in their practice. Finis will be teaching a course on utilizing technology in litigation. The following is the official announcement:
Finis Price has charted a unique path by combining his two professional passions – law and computer technology – into the development of his personal injury and trial practice. He will teach a course about trial technology at Solo Practice University™.
Working as a System Administrator in college at the University of Southern Mississippi, Finis gained extensive experience and a varied background in programming, both in applications as well as most web languages, e.g. ASP, Perl, PHP, etc. He was a Computer Science major for three years before switching back to his first major, Pre-Law, and going on to Law School.
Finis received his J.D. from the University of Louisville’s Brandeis School of Law in 2003. Upon passing the Kentucky Bar Examination, he assumed that all of the technical knowledge he had acquired was for naught unless he wanted to sacrifice his desire to be a trial lawyer.
All this changed in 2005 when the Kentucky Justice Association asked him to chair their Technology Section and develop CLE’s for Kentucky attorneys which would focus on technology in the courtroom. The goal was to help and encourage trial lawyers to embrace the use of technology in the courtroom and in their practices. While teaching others, Finis realized that he could now expand on his own legal background in the development of his own litigation and trial practice while at the same time explore new and better ways to practice law.
Finis has given numerous presentations concerning the use of technology in a legal practice for groups including: Kentucky Justice Association, Northern Kentucky Bar Association, Louisville Bar Association and the Greater Lexington Paralegal Association. Finis is also a co-host of Macs in Law Offices (MILO) Chat Weekly, a podcast dedicated to Mac hardware and software in a legal environment. He has also written numerous article for The Advocate, the Kentucky Justice Association’s bi-monthly publication.
In 2007, Finis decided to incorporate the technical aspect of his practice into TechnoEsq. TechnoEsq is a multi-faceted organization providing litigation presentations, virtual paralegal solutions and computer forensic services to the legal community.
Recently, TechnoEsq has begun offering free trial videos online in an effort to assist young and old attorneys alike to learn from their colleagues. Learning and mentoring do not occur in a vacuum, and Finis anticipates learning as much from the students as he teaches them as they bring their background and experiences with new technologies to the virtual class room.
Finis joined the SPU because he believes there is a glaring void in the practical aspects of practicing law left after law school. While this is not an indictment of any particular law school, it seems the ‘old system’ of teaching law ignores the equally important aspect of teaching how to practice law. SPU fills this void through video courses, live blogging and innovative web-based techniques of interactive learning.
A special thank you to Susan Cartier Liebel for creating the SPU.