Starting a Practice
Tips for hanging your own shingle, including office setup, insurance and more.
Closing a Practice
Checklist for Retiring/Closing Solo Law Office
South Carolina lawyers should prepare written succession plans specifying what steps must be taken in the event of their death or disability from practicing law. Lawyers are encouraged to designate a consenting successor lawyer to assume responsibility for the interests of the lawyer's clients in the event of the lawyer's death or disability from practicing law. The SC Bar maintains a registry of successor lawyers. Rule 1.19, Succession Planning, RPC, Rule 407, SCACR.
Successor Registry
Succession Planning Designation Form
Downloadable Forms
Succession Plan Preparation Checklist for Planning Attorney
Sample Form Agreement to Close a Law Practice
Insurance
Extended Reporting "Tail Coverage"
Understanding Tail Coverage
Additional Succession Planning Resources
American Bar Association's Succession Planning Resources
How to Be Successful at Succession Planning
Prepare Yourself for a Happy Retirement
Why Plan for Succession and Retirement, Part One
Why Plan for Succession and Retirement, Part Two
Reinventing the Law Business Succession Planning
Law Firm Succession Planning - Things Small Firms Can Do Just Like the Big Firms
Designing a Succession Plan for Your Law Practice
Plan Ahead for Closing a Law Practice: Procedures for Retirement, Moving to a New Firm, or Your Death or Disability (Risk Management Practice Guide of Lawyers Mutual - Liability Insurance Company of North Carolina)
Disposing (of) Information Yourself (DIY) Resources
How to Clean Out and Organize Your Computer from Techlicious
How to Safely Get Rid of an Old Computer from Techlicious
Disposing of Old Computers from FTC
Disposing of Your Mobile Device from FTC
Shredding Old Computers Into Dust from Law.com
Recycling Programs and Resources
Many counties in South Carolina have electronics or heavy metal recycling available. Check the county in which you live.
Locate a Recycling Center
Certified Electronic Recyclers
Earth 911
RecycleHere SC
Waste Management
Recycling Trade-In Programs
Computers
Apple Product Take-Back and Recycling
Best Buy's Trade-In and Save Program
Dell Recycling
Google
Lenovo
Shred 360
Staples
Smartphones/Tablets
Apple Product Take-Back and Recycling
Best Buy's Trade-In and Save Program
Gazelle
Google
Motorola
Printers/Imaging Devices
Canon
Dell Recycling
HP
Xerox
Shred/Document & Electronic Destruction Services
Shred 360
Shred Monkeys
Shred With Us
ShredIt
ProShred
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Software
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Cloud-Based Software
AbacusLaw
ActionStep (includes full accounting)
Aderant
Caret Legal (includes full accounting)
Case Peer
Centerbase (includes full accounting)
Clio
CosmoLex (includes full accounting)
FileVine
HoudiniEsq
Legal Files
MyCase (includes full accounting)
Neos
Practice Panther
Rocket Matter
SmartAdvocate
Smokeball
Tabs3 Cloud
On-Premise Software
LEAP (cloud components)
Legal Files
Needles
Practice Master-Tabs 3
SmartAdvocate
DISCLAIMER: The SC Bar does not sell or evaluate the products or services listed. The SC Bar makes no representation or warranty regarding any of the products or services listed. The SC Bar provides this information to its members for their evaluation and consideration and does not endorse any product or service. The list below may not be a complete list of what is available in the market. The SC Bar makes no representation, warranty or assurance as to the accuracy, currency or completeness of the content contained on any websites linked to from this site.
Abradocs - S.C. litigation, correspondence and email templates for Hotdocs
Clio Draft
Gavel
HotDocs
Leaflet
Litera
Pathagoras
PatternBuilder
The FormTool
Woodpecker
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DISCLAIMER: The SC Bar does not sell or evaluate the products or services listed. The SC Bar makes no representation or warranty regarding any of the products or services listed. The SC Bar provides this information to its members for their evaluation and consideration and does not endorse any product or service. The list below may not be a complete list of what is available in the market. The SC Bar makes no representation, warranty or assurance as to the accuracy, currency or completeness of the content contained on any websites linked to from this site.
DISCLAIMER: The SC Bar does not sell or evaluate the products or services listed. The SC Bar makes no representation or warranty regarding any of the products or services listed. The SC Bar provides this information to its members for their evaluation and consideration and does not endorse any product or service. The list below may not be a complete list of what is available in the market. The SC Bar makes no representation, warranty or assurance as to the accuracy, currency or completeness of the content contained on any websites linked to from this site.
PDF Software Products
Able2Extract
Active PDF
Adobe Acrobat
Corel's Word Perfect
NitroPro
PDF Element
PDF Fusion
Tungsten PowerPDF (formerly Kofax PDF)
Xodo
Scan to PDF Resources
Fujitsu ScanSnap - Features one button scanning to PDF.
Microsoft Print to PDF
Scan to PDF
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Free Spyware Removal Tools
Spybot Search and Destroy
Windows Defender
Free Spyware and Adware Detection & Removal Software
Software - Firewall and Antivirus
AVG Anti-Virus
Broadcom
Kaspersky
McAfee
Sophos
Windows Defender
Trend Micro
Wiping or Sanitizing Hard Drives
Software Solutions: Darik's Boot and Nuke freeware
Devices: Drive eRazer - standalone solution for erasing data from a hard drive. No PC necessary.
Encryption E-mail Software Products
ProofPoint
Comodo
Sophos
Identillect Technologies
FolderLock
Zix
Absio
Microsoft 365
Trend Micro
Broadcom
Share File
ProtonMail
Encryption Software Products
Sophos
Broadcom
Microsoft Bitlocker (Windows 10 & Windows 11)
Apple Encryption
Local Encryption Products
DISCLAIMER: The SC Bar does not sell or evaluate the products or services listed. The SC Bar makes no representation or warranty regarding any of the products or services listed. The SC Bar provides this information to its members for their evaluation and consideration and does not endorse any product or service. The list below may not be a complete list of what is available in the market. The SC Bar makes no representation, warranty or assurance as to the accuracy, currency or completeness of the content contained on any websites linked to from this site.
Cloud Based:
ActionStep (practice management includes time and billing)
BigTime (desktop widget available)
Bill4Time
CenterBase
Clio
eBillity
FreshBooks
GoMatters
Harvest
Leap
MyCase
Practice Panther
RocketMatter
Soluno
Time59
TimeSolv
Desktop Based:
AbacusLaw
Billings (Mac only)
fanurio (Mac & Windows)
Tabs3
TimeNet Law (Mac only)
Timeslips
DISCLAIMER: The SC Bar does not sell or evaluate the products or services listed. The SC Bar makes no representation or warranty regarding any of the products or services listed. The SC Bar provides this information to its members for their evaluation and consideration and does not endorse any product or service. The list below may not be a complete list of what is available in the market. The SC Bar makes no representation, warranty or assurance as to the accuracy, currency or completeness of the content contained on any websites linked to from this site.
DISCLAIMER: The SC Bar does not sell or evaluate the products or services listed. The SC Bar makes no representation or warranty regarding any of the products or services listed. The SC Bar provides this information to its members for their evaluation and consideration and does not endorse any product or service. The list below may not be a complete list of what is available in the market. The SC Bar makes no representation, warranty or assurance as to the accuracy, currency or completeness of the content contained on any websites linked to from this site.