This talk will be presented by Don Schwarc

Don Schwartz is a recognized business appraiser, popular speaker and workshop presenter on ways to build long-term sustainable business value in your business and professional practice.

The key learning points are:

• Despite popular thinking, law firms can be sold

• Who is the most qualified specialist to do so?

• What are the best approaches and methods to use?

The talk will be presented by Craig Ackerman

Craig grew-up in New Jersey where he learned to renovate homes, manage tenants and sell residential buildings with his father. Living for 10 years in Singapore and Shanghai, China, on assignment in the commercial real estate industry, Craig returned to the US, and established Ackerman Realty Group in 2003.

Craig wrote “Selling Grandma’s House” and frequently presents to Legal and Financial Consultants about how best to advise their aging clients.

Craig has closed over 400 sales and ranks in the top 1% of all Bay Area Realtors.

The key learning points are:

• How to get significantly higher prices – always
• Keys to a seller-centric system that breeds buyer exuberance
• The highest paying home preparation steps
• Marketing “Must Dos” that cost the seller nothing

“Avoiding the marital doghouse: counsel from an old law dog who now practices couples therapy” talk will be presented by Mark Perlmutter

A former 30- year-plus Texas Trial Lawyer, “superlawyer” and “legal innovator,” Mark Perlmutter, MA, JD, now helps individuals and couples to have more satisfying business and intimate relationships.He also mediates, and is an Adjunct Professor of Law at UC Hastings and the University of Texas School of Law where he teaches “Powerful Communication From the Inside Out.”He practices as a relationship coach with Managing Human Differences (Managingdifferences.net) helping businesses manage workplace conflict, has counseled law students at Golden Gate University, and serves as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist focusing on couples therapy and public speaking anxiety.

The key learning points are:

• • Learn how to write an owners manual for working on your partner
  • Learn how to avoid those pesky repetitive fights that seem to be out of control and take on a life of their own
  • Learn how to take charge of marital conflict and restore the connection with your partner