Monday, May 29, 2006

Inexorable progress

In April, I told you about the firm's trip to the Oregon Dental Association's annual convention, and our efforts to figure out how to market our services. It turns out that I may have gotten a client out of it.

The booth across the aisle from ours was hosted by a construction company specializing in offices for physicians and dentists. Because we had the opportunity to spend many hours looking at each other ... and because they had candy bars sitting right there on the counter for anyone to take ... I struck up a conversation with the president of the company. As is traditional, we exchanged business cards.

I explained that my firm represented hundreds of physicians and nearly a thousand dentists, and that we viewed ourselves as specialists because many general practitioners are not familiar with the extensive regulatory environment that should be considered in the business and legal decisions of health care providers. He agreed.

Last week, he sent me an e-mail. He will be helping three doctors (he did not specify the type) construct a building for their practices within our service area. The doctors will need an entity to own the building and an operating agreement to govern how the money flows and what happens if they turn out to be unable to work together.

Right up my alley.

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Success! It's good to have another post from you! I hadn't given up!

5:38 PM  
Blogger Rand Simmons said...

Resistance is futile.

3:36 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

May 29 of what year? Oh, this one! Why, that's only been a quarter of a year ago! Derek, how's a mom to keep up with what's happening in her son's life if he doesn't share it publicly?

8:29 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey Derek,

I stumbled accross your blog. Good to read some of your stuff. I was very happy to see that you and Kansas are doing so well in the NCAA tournament.

Good Times,

Travis

6:53 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This blog is about to have its first LONELY birthday. Sssobbb.
But like a good mom, I keep checking.

10:39 AM  

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