Starting a New Law Practice
Starting a New Law Practice
Checklist and Resources
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Resource Guides and Articles
An ABA/YLD member service project, this 79 page guide is designed to help lawyers determine if they are ready to start a law practice.
From the Blog "My Shingle," steps lawyers must take to leave a firm in an ethical manner.
Forms
A number of practice forms are available online from PMAP.
Free Law Books
Lists
Prepared by the Oklahoma Bar Association Management Assistance Program
On Amazon.com - a collection of books on starting a law firm.
List of books from Pat Newcombe, Western New England College School of Law
Technology
Ross Kodner, Esquire
MicroLaw, Inc.
All the technology you need to start a solo law practice
ABA Legal Technology Resource Center
Helping Lawyers Solve the Technology Puzzle
Helping Lawyers Solve the Technology Puzzle
Wireless Technology
Links to articles (mostly cautionary) about lawyers and wireless networks
Join or Sign Up
Women Rainmakers of the ABA Law Practice Management Section
Solosez Online Resources for Solo and Small Firm Practitioners
South Carolina Bar Solo and Small Firm Section
Note: The ABA has many of their section magazines and newsletters available online, free to anyone.
Helpful Web Sites
South Carolina Bar PMAP (Practice Management Assistance Program)
NewLawyer ABA GP Solo Division e-newsletter targets the needs and interests of attorneys in the first years of their practice, but with articles that appeal to lawyers at any level.
"Great things come in small practices" says Carolyn Elefant, the force behind this Web site for and about solos and small firms. Includes the helpful Online
Guide to Starting a Law Firm
Read articles on marketing, management, finance and technology from the best writers in the ABA Law Practice Management Section.
The Trueblood Law Firm of Los Angeles, CA, offers advice to attorneys starting a new consumer law practice.
Management and Marketing Advice For Attorneys
Italo Consulting
Italo Consulting
Starting Your Own Law Practice
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Copyright © 1993-2004 CORPORATE CREATIONS
This article discusses five types of business entities commonly used to operate a law practice. (Not S.C. specific.)
Publications
South Carolina Bar Lending Library
South Carolina Bar CLE Publications Store
Law Office Computing magazine
The old pages of this excellent (now-defunct) bimonthly magazine remain online and could be helpful.
The old pages of this excellent (now-defunct) bimonthly magazine remain online and could be helpful.
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