Fourth Annual FALDP Conference

The Fourth Annual FALDP Conference this past weekend in Cedar Key, Florida was a huge success. Participants came away saying they were happy to have attended. One characterized the event as "priceless". Florida legal document preparers sometimes work in isolation. Many document preparation companies are one person operations, a few others are family businesses, and still others are partnerships. Our FALDP annual conference offers members the rare chance to meet their cohorts and colleagues to exchange ideas and information. FALDP as an association has persistently promoted the idea that we should be collaborative rather than competitive. There are many pro se litigants that need document preparation services. We are unlikely to run out of customers anytime soon. Helping each other learn how to prepare more documents, sharing business ideas, and teaching document preparers how to educate pro se litigants to help themselves are fundamental tenets of our association.

Despite a few minor challenges, the event went without a hitch. Cedar Key is pretty and quaint, but a little bit third world Florida. If you're not a Florida native, you may be surprised that this step back in time exists. (No chain restaurants, no MacDonalds, some places don't take plastic). We try to hold the FALDP conferences is out of the way or smaller coastal towns, hoping that attendees will see a part of Florida they have never seen before. The streets in Cedar Key empty early in the evening, you can walk down the center of main street and not get run over. The library and the post office are apparently one in the same.

The two guest speakers were humorous, inspiring, and informative. The group was small enough to allow for lively discussion, yet large enough to provide for alternative view points. We had fun!

To read more and see pictures about the conference - go to Conference 2013.