David J. Bilinsky provides some advice to law students and mentions the importance of blogging for creating a profile,

Target the law that you wish to do and then start to find firms that practice that area..and try to get on their radar screen. How? Use social media!  The best way I know of is to start working in that area – by building a blog and start getting known for your interest in a certain area.  Omar Ha-Redeye was a law student in Canada that started a blog as a student on health and reputation management law (he is now a called lawyer) and this blog gave him immense exposure well before he graduated and led to his being included in award-winning legal blogs as www.slaw.ca.  You can see Omar’s blog here.

The Law Society of Upper Canada held the 5th Annual Solo and Small Firm Conference and Expo.

Speakers included:

Michele R.J. Allinotte, Allinotte Law Office

David J. Bilinsky, BSc., LL.B., MBA, The Law Society of B.C. Thoughtful Legal Management

Cettina Cornish, Law Society of Upper Canada

Colleen M. Cowan, BCom(Hons), CGA, Certified Independent Consultant for PCLaw, Colleen M. Cowan, BCom(Hons),

Pascale Daigneault, Fleck & Daigneault

Rodney S. Dowell, Esq., Director, Massachussets Law Office Practice Management Assistance

E. Susan Elliott, LSM

Paul Everett, CTDP, Corporate Training Specialist, Law Society of Upper Canada

Richard G. Ferguson, Lynass, Ferguson & Shoctor

Jordan Furlong, Senior Consultant, Stem Legal

Paul E. Harte, Paul Harte Professional Corporation

Dale Herceg, Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Company (LawPRO)

Jacob Jesin, Rotenberg Shidlowski Jesin

Mike McArthur, C.S., Cline, Backus & Nightingale & McArthur

Amer Mushtaq

Donna S.M. Neff, T.E.P., Neff Law Office Professional Corporation

Daniel E. Pinnington, Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Company (LawPro)

Richard Sage, Research Librarian

Michael Seto, General Counsel, edCetra Training Inc.

Victoria Starr, Starr Family Law

John G. Starzynski, Ontario Lawyers Assistance Program

David Whelan, The Law Society of Upper Canada