Solo/Small Firm
The 2009 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide (Table of Contents)
Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., John W. Simek, and Michael C. Maschke
The definitive resource for learning about the latest in law office technology.
This annual guide is the only one of its kind written to help solo and small firm lawyers find the best legal technology for their dollar. You’ll find the most current information and recommendations on computers, servers, networking equipment, legal software, printers, security products, smart phones, and anything else a law office might need. It’s written in clear, easily-understandable language to make implementation easier if you choose to do it yourself—or you can use it in conjunction with your IT consultant. Either way, you’ll learn how to make technology work for you.
Click HERE to read a review by Todd A. Stahly in The Colorado Lawyer.
The 2010 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide (Table of Contents)
Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., John W. Simek, and Michael C. Maschke
The definitive resource for learning about the latest in law office technology.
This annual guide is the only one of its kind written to help solo and small firm lawyers find the best legal technology for their dollar. You’ll find the most current information and recommendations on computers, servers, networking equipment, legal software, printers, security products, smartphones, and anything else a law office might need. It’s written in clear, easily-understandable language to make implementation simpler if you choose to do it yourself—or you can use it in conjunction with your IT consultant. Either way, you’ll learn how to make technology work for you.
The 2011 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide (Table of Contents)
Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., John W. Simek, and Michael C. Maschke
This annual guide is the only one of its kind written to help solo and small firm lawyers find the best technology for their dollar. You’ll find the most current information and recommendations on computers, servers, networking equipment, legal software, printers, security products, smartphones, the iPad and anything else a law office might need. It’s written in clear, easily understandable language to make implementation simpler if you choose to do it yourself, or you can use it in conjunction with your IT consultant. Either way, you’ll learn how to make technology work for you.
The 2012 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide (Table of Contents)
Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., John W. Simek, and Michael C. Maschke
This annual guide is the only one of its kind written to help solo and small firm lawyers find the best technology for their dollar. You’ll find the most current information and recommendations on computers, servers, networking equipment, legal software, printers, security products, smartphones, the iPad and anything else a law office might need. It’s written in clear, easily understandable language to make implementation easier if you choose to do it yourself, or you can use it in conjunction with your IT consultant. Either way, you’ll learn how to make technology work for you.
Advising the Small Business (2011) (Table of Contents)
Jean L. Batman
Advising the Small Business, Second Edition is a guide for general practitioners, small firm attorneys, and lawyers engaged in providing legal counsel to small, privately-held businesses. It provides extensive guidance on a number of issues that small businesses commonly face, as well as sample documents, checklists, and resources for obtaining additional forms and information.
A valuable resource whether a lawyer is approaching an issue from scratch or dealing with an existing situation, this book assists counsel in providing more effective legal services and helps to identify issues that require further research or a specialist.
New topics include: Using alternative fee arrangements and investing in clients; Forming divisions and subsidiaries; Valuing stock and pricing options; Financing at various stages of development; Venture capital financing; and Changes in securities law.
Annotated Model Rules of Professional Conduct (2007) (Table of Contents)
ABA Center for Professional Responsibility
The sixth edition of the Annotated Model Rules of Professional Conduct presents an authoritative and practical analysis of the lawyer ethics rules and the cases, ethics opinions, and other legal authorities essential to understanding them.
This new edition of the Annotated Model Rules of Professional Conduct represents a major refinement of previous editions. It takes into account all amendments through February 2007, as well as the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of the Law Governing Lawyers (2000).
Ask the Career Counselors (2003) (Table of Contents)
Kathy Morris and Jill Eckert
Many lawyers still wonder what they want to be when they grow up. Some think about jobs they were drawn to in college, or even earlier, such as owning a bookstore, presiding over an ice cream shop, being an architect planning and erecting buildings, running an international adventure travel enterprise. Less dramatic but equally compelling, many lawyers who are committed to the profession yearn to change jobs, even if not careers, and become judges, teachers, or simply lawyers off the clock, in different workplaces, with different daily goals.
Kathy Morris and Jill Eckert know this to be true. They created the American Bar Association Career Resource Center to help lawyers, law students, and pre-law students make better, more individualized choices about their careers within and beyond the practice of law. Author and attorney, Morris has been a career counselor since the mid-80’s, and teams with J.D./M.B.A. Eckert in this manual to provide quick tips, articles, and exercises to assist their readers and propel them toward a more satisfying professional life.
Attorney and Law Firm Guide to the Business of Law (2002) (Table of Contents)
Edward Poll
The biggest challenge lawyers and law firms face over the next ten years is maintaining a balance between managing themselves in a professional way and mastering the economics of the practice of law. We all entered into this profession in law school with the belief that we would be doing things that are important. Important things change our society for the better. Important things make people feel happy and secure. Important things are protecting people’s hard-earned assets. Doing important things is rewarding.
Ed gives us ways to do both—do the important things and become financially secure.
Attorney Liability in Bankruptcy (2006) (Table of Contents)
Corinne Cooper and Catherine E. Vance
This new and comprehensive book will give you exactly what you need to understand and comply with the law. It provides an overview of the provisions for the new Bankruptcy Reform Act including new sanctions provisions in Chapter 7 cases; regulation of attorneys as debt relief agencies; heightened requirements for reaffirmation agreements.
Basic Training Manual for Legal Secretaries (2007) (Table of Contents)
Sally Jarvis
The manual is divided into ten chapters, and as we hear from users, we add, expand, change, and adapt the text to be of greatest use to those who are training legal secretaries or training to become legal secretaries. For that reason, we want to hear from you so that we may always improve this product.
The ten chapters contain basic information about matters of importance to legal secretaries. The Appendix contains extra materials and study aids.
We hope you will enjoy using this manual and that it will suit your needs.
Being Prepared—with CD (2008) (Table of Contents)
Lloyd D. Cohen and Debra Hart Cohen
Being Prepared is the essential workbook and guide for protecting your law practice against casualty or other unexpected event. If you haven’t started thinking about, or formulating, and action plan to properly protect your law firm, your clients, and your family in the event of temporary disability, incapacity, or other unexpected event, this book will jump start the process! It is a “how-to” workbook designed to lead you through a series of active and immediate steps aimed at establishing your protection plan. Use this book to safety-net your financial and professional liability.
BONUS: This book is accompanied by a companion CD-Rom, which contains a wealth of material with easy-to-use checklists, questionnaires, forms, sample agreements, blog site, and website links to state-specific resources. It provides an effective way to communicate vital information to family, friends, colleagues and clients. Use both the workbook and CD-Rom to get your protection plan started today! Then continue to use it to quickly and effectively organize your entire practice.
Best Practices in Attorney Professional Development (2004) (Table of Contents)
American Bar Association Career Resource Center
Firms need to maximize their investment in human capital, attracting the best attorneys and retaining those they recruit.
Attorneys want opportunities for growth and development in order to advance in their careers.
And many firms and individuals are interested in the best practices for and career development opportunities in attorney training and development, a field that itself has grown and matured.
This manual addresses all of these components, and more, by providing advice for lawyers and employers on attorney professional development best practices.
Through Best Practices in Attorney Professional Development, firm management and practicing attorneys will learn about the detours and course corrections from the top experts in the attorney professional development arena, from Atlanta to the U.K.
This manual is a compendium of best practice information from members of the Professional Development Consortium—an organization for professional development specialists in workplaces employing lawyers worldwide. A special bonus section includes sample ads and job descriptions of PD roles in law firms today that will assist in defining there important jobs, to bring to life Best Practices in Attorney Professional Development.
Beyond the Big Firm (2007) (Table of Contents)
Alan B. Morrison and Diane T. Chin
This succinct paperback will fill a major information void for students and recent graduates who are interested in a legal career outside the typical large, corporate law firm. "Beyond the Big Firm" offers more than 30 engaging profiles of lawyers who have chosen to follow nontraditional legal careers, in a wide range of subject areas, practice settings, and types of work. This distinctive book explores the many possibilities open to graduates of law school through the use of profiles -- written primarily by students interested in public interest law -- of lawyers who made "alternative" career choices. The editors of this informative compilation are long-time public interest lawyers; the actual authors of the profiles are primarily students who capture the personalities of their subjects in a way that is sure to resonate with the audience because they share the same questions about career choices. The subjects of the profiles have been out of law school 10-15 years, they represent 18 law schools, and they work in 15 states. The lawyers profiled have jobs in governments, non-profits, and small private firms; both civil and criminal law are covered, including prosecutors and defense counsel. Some of the fields that the lawyers work in are civil rights, civil liberties, immigration, personal injury, and human rights. In addition to the fascinating lawyer-profiles, special features include: a special resources chapter to help students determine and follow their career choice; a final chapter with mini-profiles of 3 lawyers who are not practicing law, but for whom their legal training is vital to their work; and short essays by current and former Stanford Law School deans Larry Kramer and Kathleen Sullivan.
Building a Practice (1992-1995) (Table of Contents)
ABA Small Firm Resource Center
Compilation of articles from an array of sources including ABA Journal, Compleat Lawyer, Flying Solo, Focusing on Profitability, and more.
Business Competency for Lawyers (2006) (Table of Contents)
Edward Poll
You don't need an MBA degree to run a law firm--but to be profitable, you need to know the basic business principles in this book. You will discover: -Planning for your success -Turning billable hours into collected cash -Building a more profitable firm -Thinking more creatively about The Business of Law.
Business Interruption/Disaster Recovery Part 1 (2008)
Association of Legal Administrators
Business Interruption/Disaster Recovery Part 2 (2008)
Association of Legal Administrators
Beth Chiaiese
This Webinar focuses on issues that involve protecting and recovering a firm's records in the event of a disaster. The speakers will discuss where files are and should be stored and some best practices for storing records and files.
The Busy Lawyer’s Guide to Success (2009) (Table of Contents)
Reid F. Trautz
Busy lawyers do not have dozens of extra hours to conduct research looking for new tips and ideas to streamline and enhance their practice of law. They need just-in-time learning to acquire the knowledge necessary to build their practices. This convenient pocket guide is the best ever collection of practical tips, ideas, and techniques to help you survive, thrive, and find success in the practice of law.
Changing Jobs (1999) (Table of Contents)
Heidi McNeil Staudenmaier (Editor)
Changing Jobs, Third Edition: A Handbook for Lawyers in the New Millennium helps you design your own route to professional happiness. More than 30 recognized experts in the fields of law and career planning and placement offer valuable insight and guidance to discovering the direction that’s right for you. You’ll learn how to define your desired destination; develop a clear sense of direction and purpose; map out the best path to take to reach your goal; and much more!
Compendium of Professional Responsibility Rules and Standards (1997) (Table of Contents)
American Bar Association
The 2006 Compendium of Professional Responsibility Rules and Standards provides immediate reference to the essential legal ethics materials needed by lawyers and judges in their daily practice, law students in their exploration of the standards of their new profession, and legal scholars in their analysis of the changing currents that influence professional regulation. This single volume includes: ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, 2006 Edition, the ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility, and the ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct. In addition, the Compendium includes various Formal Ethics Opinions issued by the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, sample questions and analysis for the MPRE, the status of the adoption of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and other rules, regulations and document that will assist lawyers and students.
Compensation Plans for Law Firms 5th Edition (2010) (Table of Contents)
James D. Cotterman (Editor)
This one volume provides you with your primary research source leading you to auxiliary sources for further information as appropriate. They can support your current compensation system, or help you reevaluate your current methods of compensation. Careful advance consideration is essential to the success of your compensation plan. Using this valuable reference you can develop a compensation plan that conveys fairness, simplicity, and flexibility and strike the perfect balance within your firm.
The Complete Guide to Contract Lawyering (1999) (Table of Contents)
Deborah Arron and Deborah Guyol
The Complete Guide to Contract Lawyering tells how—as a practicing lawyer, law firm administrator or recent law school graduate—you can take advantage of the benefits of contract work while avoiding its drawbacks. It includes: 2 chapters on rate-setting, marketing tips for contract lawyers, selection criteria and management pointers for hiring lawyers, advice for new admittees, detailed discussion of ethical questions raised by the contract lawyer relationship, a survey of insurance coverage for contract legal work, and profiles of contract lawyer placement agencies nationwide.
The Complete Guide to Designing Your Law Office (2005) (Table of Contents)
Suzette S. Schultz and Jon S. Schultz
Your office space is part of your firm’s image, but it must also be functional. Whether you’re planning a new office or remodeling your current office (with or without the assistance of a design consultant), you’ll learn how to create or change your space while avoiding needless disruption, chaos, and cost overruns. The authors set out the best approaches for designing every area in the law office, including offices and work stations, conference rooms and reception areas, and more. You’ll be guided through every step of the process, from determining your optimal square footage, to selecting the right security systems and technology, to hiring and working with movers. In addition, helpful checklists, schedules, and other documents are included on an accompanying CD-Rom to make your renovation or relocation as easy as possible.
The Complete Reference Checking Handbook (1998) (Table of Contents)
Edward C. Andler
Pretty surprising (and scary), isn’t it? Especially when you’re faced with the challenge of finding the ones who don’t lie—the ones most likely to make good employees. Checking references is the best way to identify the bad (and good) candidates. Unfortunately this task is too often mishandled, with painful and costly consequences. The Complete Reference Checking Handbook is the only comprehensive guide available on the delicate art of reference checking. It provides all the tools you need to handle this critical part of the hiring process.
Concise Guide to Paralegal Ethics (2010) (Table of Contents)
Therese A. Cannon
This concise version of the author’s highly successful textbook, ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR PARALEGALS, no in its fourth edition, provides succinct, focused, and complete coverage of basic ethical principles from the perspective of the practicing paralegal. Written by a respected author and leader in the field of paralegal education, Concise Guide to Paralegal Ethics, is ideal as the main text in related courses on ethics or as a supplementary text in related courses on law for paralegals.
Constructing Core Competencies (2006) (Table of Contents)
Heather Bock and Robert Ruyak
A competency model is an invaluable tool for law firms seeking a way to improve their career development programs and retain key associates. This book, written by the director of professional development at Howrey LLP and the firm's chairman and CEO, lays the groundwork for creating a competency model, which can be used to optimize associate development and build a firm-wide high-performance culture. Competencies provide consistent guidance to associates regarding firm expectations, as well as continuity for development processes across the spectrum - in hiring, training, performance evaluations, and promotions. The book goes beyond issue spotting and offers practical advice on gaining support, defining competencies, and integrating them into a firm's culture.
Convincing the Judge (2008) (Table of Contents)
Cecil C. Kuhne
Learn what judges like and do not like and how to deal with the judge throughout the entire litigation process. This book distills the advice of judges to practitioners appearing in their courtrooms and provides practical advice on case management, all phases of trial, and appeals. It also explains the judicial role and suggests tips for dealing with a difficult judge.
The Creative Lawyer (2007) (Table of Contents)
Michael F. Melcher (Michael Francisco)
The Creative Lawyer is a self-help book for lawyers. It is a practical, fun, inspirational guide to building and maintaining a life that is personally and professionally satisfying. The book responds to a huge and completely unsatisfied need: the desire of lawyers to be more fulfilled, by showing how lawyers can design an optimal career and life that corresponds to who he or she actually is.
The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law (2006) (Table of Contents)
Mark Herrmann
“The Curmudgeon” has been practicing law for just a little too long, and he may be too jaded for his own good. Beneath his crusty exterior, however, lies a fount of wisdom. This Curmudgeon knows everything about the legal profession, and he’s willing to share his keen observations from the corner office. He offers practical and honest, if blunt, advice for surviving and thriving in a law firm. He tells you what you need to know about billing, managing your assistant, drafting internal memos, dealing with clients and building you law practice. Read the Curmudgeon and find out what drives law partners crazy, what will impress them and what ten mistakes you should avoid. Concise, humorous and full of valuable (but curmudgeonly) insight, this is a must-read for every lawyer and law student.
Click HERE to read a review by Susan E. Chetlin in The Colorado Lawyer.
Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Words of Wisdom from Multicultural Women Attorneys Who’ve Been There and Done That (2000) (Table of Contents)
Karen Clanton (Editor)
To be successful, simply working hard is not enough. Guidance from mentors turns working hard into working smart. This is particularly true for women and minorities, who cite lack of mentoring as one of the most persistent problems in career development. Here, 84 multicultural women attorneys serve as mentors. Through letters to their sisters and daughters, they offer practical advice and inspiration that can aid anyone on the road to a successful career. Compiled by the ABA Multicultural Women Attorneys Network, the letters represent decades of experience from the best in the profession.
Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Strategies for Success from Multicultural Women Attorneys (2009) (Table of Contents)
Multicultural Women Attorneys Network
Our goal for Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Strategies for Success from Multicultural Women Attorneys is to provide the next generation with a collection of tips for success that they can use as they begin to contemplate and shape their careers in the legal profession.
Click HERE to read a review by Mariya Barmak in The Docket.
Della Street is Retiring (2006)
Association of Legal Administrators
Nancy Siegel
Learn about the evolving role of the legal secretary and how your firm can implement new strategies to meet the shifting paradigm for managing secretarial services.
Difficult Clients—Dedicated Attorneys (2005) (Table of Contents)
Lyn Cobin Gullette, Ph.D. and William R. Gullette, Esq.
Difficult Clients—Dedicated Attorneys is a collaborative effort by an experienced psychologist and attorney who share their practical suggestions for helping attorneys prevent, avoid, and repair difficult situations brought on by clients. A must read for every attorney who has ever had a difficult client, this book discusses the most common difficult clients: “The Angry Client,” “The Delaying, Procrastinating Client,” “The Changing Client,” and “The Intensely Expressive Client.” The authors examine these typical client behaviors, discuss underlying causes, and provide tips on helping clients through the rough spots to foster a smoother attorney-client relationship and ensure the client’s effective participation in the case. Basic information is provided about psychological disorders and emotional problems, with a focus on how these problems impact the attorney-client relationship and the legal process. The authors also discuss the role of the therapist and how attorneys can arrange for accommodations for clients with these difficulties. A directory of common client difficulties, with suggestions for interventions, is provided as a “first aid kit” for use in everyday practice.
Click HERE to read a review by Matthew Crouch in The Colorado Lawyer.
Direct Examination (2010) (Table of Contents)
Jill Eckert and Kathy Morris
The pursuit of happiness is an unalienable right, but one that not all lawyers exercise as they work day in and day out to protect the life, liberty and interests of their clients.
Now, an easy-to-use workbook helps bring attorney career planning into focus, with exercises from and insights of long-time legal career counselor Kathy Morris, and her colleague, Jill Eckert, J.D./M.B.A., legal Career Specialist of the ABA Career Resource Center.
Disaster Preparedness & Recovery Planning for Law Firms (2007) (Table of Contents)
Edward Poll
This book offers guidelines on how lawyers and law firms can prepare to minimize the debilitating impact that disasters of all kinds can have on their law practices and the clients they represent. The issue isn't if a disaster will occur, but rather when a disaster occurs, what should we do in order to recover quickly and effectively. Topics covered include defining "disaster," then creating a plan that deals with the various types of disasters that might befall us including fire, earthquake, burst water pipes and, yes, even planes crashing into our buildings. This new book also deals with insurance, financial planning, data recovery, and most importantly, personnel (our "human capital") planning.
Do-it-Yourself Public Relations (1995) (Table of Contents)
David E. Gumpert
Some lawyers have used their own wits and energies to establish do-it-yourself PR programs for their firms. Now, you can do the same. David Gumpert, an experienced public relations expert who has worked with numerous lawyers, lays it all out for you in this book: Do-it-Yourself Public Relations: A Success Guide for Lawyers. He tells you the secrets of good media relations, insider tricks of the trade, and practical suggestions for implementing a workable public relations program in your office.
Down But Not Out (2009)
Association of Legal Administrators
Lee Innocenti
Employees are being asked to do more with less in the face of work hour reductions, pay cuts, or layoffs. How do you help your employees remain productive and your managers focused on growing your business? Learn how to respond quickly to declining motivation and plummeting morale with tips from Lee Innocenti, founder and Principal of Performance Strategies, Ltd.
Emerging Companies Guide (2005) (Table of Contents)
Robert L. Brown and Alan S. Gutterman (Editors)
This book attempts to bring together current thoughts on how to establish, organize, develop and eventually sell an emerging company. Over 15 chapters, we have tried to address basic organizational issues, tax and non-tax planning issues, employment issues, as well as how to grow the business through distribution, licensing and sales. We have also included chapters on protecting your intellectual property rights and how to handle media and public relations.
The Essential Formbook Volume 1 (Table of Contents)
Gary A. Munneke and Anthony E. Davis
The purpose of this work is to help individual lawyers, and law firms of all sizes, accomplish a fundamental goal: to serve clients better. That may seem redundant—don’t lawyers always try to give good service? In our experience the answer to that question is both “yes” and “no.” “Yes” because lawyers aspire to give good service; “no” because the level of service even individual lawyers give to different clients often diverges greatly, whether in solo practice or in large, multioffice law firms. One client may receive optimum attention and quality at all times, while another may feel—and sometimes may be—neglected or, worse, ignored. This book is intended to help you structure and manage your law practice to achieve two fundamental goals: service to clients and making law practice profitable.
The Extraordinary Law Firm (2007) (Table of Contents)
Charles E. Stinnett
What is it about a law office or law firm that makes it an extraordinary place to work? What makes an extraordinary law firm something more than just a weekday morning destination for employees?
This book aims to equip professional law firm managers with the knowledge and desire to transform their offices into remarkable workplaces, delivering not only superior client service, but also the utmost satisfaction for each and every person who is part of that effort.
Case studies, sample policies, checklists and other materials offer real-world guidance for what it means to be an extraordinary law firm. Use these best practices to discover how to make your own firm a great place to work.
Flying Solo (Table of Contents)
K. William Gibson (Editor)
Newly revised and completely updated, the fourth edition of this comprehensive guide includes practical information gathered from a wide range of contributors, including successful solo practitioners, law firm consultants, state and local bar practice management advisors, and law school professors. All the contributors share tips and advice that can be easily implemented in your solo or small-firm practice. This classic ABA book first walks you through a step-by-step analysis of the decision to start a solo practice, including choosing a practice focus. It then provides tools to help you with financial issues including banking and billing; operations issues such as staffing and office location and design decisions; technology for the small law office; and marketing and client relations. What’s more, the final section on quality of life issues puts it all into perspective. Whether you’re thinking of going solo, new to the solo life, or a seasoned practitioner, Flying Solo provides time-tested answers to real-life questions.
From Law School to Law Practice (1998) (Table of Contents)
Suzanne B. O’Neil and Catherine Gerhauser Sparkman
The authors of From Law School to Law Practice: The New Associate’s Guide have written a unique book that sets forth accurately what is expected of the new associate when he or she enters the law firm setting.
This handbook depicts what clients and more experienced attorneys in the firm will expect from new attorneys. It also supplies tips and suggestions to associates as to how to go about learning about and adapting to the firms they have joined, relating to clients and determining what role to play in dealing with them, translating clients’ needs and desires into appropriate services and work products, avoiding pitfalls that will harm their reputations and prove costly to the firm, approaching the various tasks assigned to them, managing assignments and deadlines, maintaining communication with supervising attorneys as to progress on and status of assignments, efficiently handling record-keeping duties, developing meeting and telephone skills, and working toward long-term career and business development.
Those who read this book as they enter law practice have the added benefit of limiting the amount of “culture shock” that occurs during the adjustment from student life to their new working environments.
These insights are also valuable for law students, aiding them in deciding whether to enter law firm practice, planning their careers, and in asking pertinent questions during the interview process that will better indicate how they may fit in with a given firm.
Click HERE to read a review by Andrew M. LaFontaine in The Colorado Lawyer.
From Metropolis to Mayberry (1996) (Table of Contents)
Phillip C. Williams
Starry-eyed readers who may have bought the media myths about Mayberry, Cabot Cove, or any other small-town Shangri-la may be disappointed by my dwelling on the gloomier aspects of small-town life. Such readers should remember that the maxim “Watch your step” can be as useful in a cow pasture as it is on a crowded sidewalk. They should also keep in mind that life in a genuine small town—an elusive entity that I try to define in Chapter 1—simply may not be for them. The time to discover that is now, before you find yourself marooned in misery in Boondocks, U.S.A. Possibly what you want is a less drastic change of scene—a smaller city, for example, or one in what is to you more hospitable terrain. This book can help you find out. Part One is devoted to helping you make the elementary decisions: Do you want to live and practice in a small town? If so, where? Part Two lays out a few ugly truths about most small towns: don’t commit yourself to this lifestyle without knowing these facts.
Getting Started (1996) (Table of Contents)
Arthur G. Greene (Editor)
As with other LPM Publishing titles, Getting Started: Basics for a Successful Law Firm provides practical advice from lawyers and consultants who have experienced and dealt with the problems associated with the formation of a new law practice. The first steps for lawyers in any law practice is to accept the idea that many, if not all, of the problems a firm may encounter can be anticipated and addressed in advance, avoiding serious disputes and potential litigation later. In this light, editor Arthur G. Greene and his steering committee of Robert J. Arndt, Ezra Tom Clark Jr., Richard Feferman, and Gerry Malone have fashioned an invaluable resource for all lawyers who practice law together as owners of a legal business.
How to Start a Solo Law Practice—2008 Edition with CD
Hal Davis
Maybe you’ve recently passed the bar only to find that there aren’t that many jobs out there. Or maybe you’ve been practicing law long enough to know that your “dream job” is mostly job and very little dream. How to Start a Solo Law Practice is the answer you’re looking for.
You’ll learn, first-hand, exactly how to: decide what kind of law to practice; find, attract and retain quality clients; turn away unprofitable clients; collect fees and manage finances; choose where to practice—the best regions, cities and neighborhoods; commercial or retail office; office-sharing; working at home; purchase equipment—what to buy and what not to buy; and much, much more!
Law Office Procedures Manual for Solos and Small Firms 3rd Edition (2005) (Table of Contents)
Demetrios Dimitriou
This newly revised edition provides everything you need to develop and compile a succinct, comprehensive procedures manual, geared toward the unique management issues of a solo or small firm. This step-by-step guide offers direction on setting policy and procedures for your firm, and provides sample language and documents, both in the text and on the accompanying CD-Rom, to allow for easy customization. Proper implementation of sound policies and procedures will help ensure your firm operates efficiently, resulting in optimal delivery of legal services to your clients.
The Legal Guide for Small Business (2000) (Table of Contents)
American Bar Association
The ABA Legal Guide for Small Business is the complete and easy guide to understanding the small-business owner’s legal responsibilities and options. This guide takes you from the day you start your business right through to the day you sell it or retire:
Getting Started: funding, financing, insurance, location
Types of Business Organizations: sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, limited liability, options
Franchising: tips for evaluating opportunity, franchise agreements, buying a business
Employees: hiring, laws affecting employees and employers, terminating employees, maintaining a safe business, dealing with customers, extending credit
Running the Business: contracts, special terms and strange clauses, contract disputes, scams, protecting intellectual property rights
Taxes: business taxes, state and city taxes, knowing your rights
Possible Endings: getting a lawyer, retirement, selling a business
Getting Help When You Need it: knowing when you need legal help, choosing a business lawyer, how to get more information
The American Bar Association is the country’s best source of legal expertise and authoritative information. Presented in plain, everyday language, The ABA Legal Guide for Small Business is the definitive legal reference for all small-business owners and potential owners who want and deserve to understand their rights.
Letters for Small Business Lawyers (2008) (Table of Contents)
Jean L. Batman
A huge portion of the U.S. economy is comprised of small businesses. To prosper in this market segment, an attorney must consistently produce effective communications to retain existing clients and pave the way for referral business. This book offers letter templates, forms and advice for the many attorneys who represent, or wish to represent, small businesses.
Minding Your Own Business (2010) (Table of Contents)
Ann M. Guinn
Small firm lawyers often get caught in the crossfire of practicing law and managing a business all at the same time. Commitments and interest levels may weigh more heavily on defending the freedoms guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution vs. calculating overtime pay for staff. They may be more interested in ensuring our legal system works, but not so interested in developing marketing strategies to attract new business.
Minding Your Own Business approaches these challenges with the philosophy that solo and small firm practitioners are first, business managers, and second, attorneys.
Learn to master the key elements of running a small firm: Management of financial elements to ensure payment from clients; Implementation of various marketing strategies to bring in new clients; and Anticipation of clients' needs to ensure they are well served and satisfied.
Solo by Choice (2007) (Table of Contents)
Carolyn Elefant
Back when you were in law school you had dreams…
Maybe it was standing before a jury, passionately arguing on behalf of a desperate client…or winning an appeal that would link your name to a new legal precedent…or pulling off a dramatic 11th hour deal that would give your struggling technology client a life-saving infusion of capital. But what happened? Here it is two, five, eight, years out of law school—maybe more, maybe less—and most of those dreams are unrealized:
You work 60-hour weeks in BigLaw, researching narrow legal issues for clients you never met, watching partners argue motions you drafted and which you know you could argue better given the opportunity.
Or, you’re a government prosecutor or Justice Department attorney whose work is no longer challenging, but you can’t move up any higher without political connections.
Or, you were let go from a firm because you weren’t partnership material, and now you’re temping at document-review jobs that barely pay the bills.
Or, you enjoy your work but are plagued with guilt about leaving your children with a nanny five days a week.
Or, you just passed the bar, and the prospect of paying off your student loans by slaving away the next seven or eight years on the chance you might make partner has you popping antacid in the middle of the night.
This book is dedicated to every lawyer who ever wanted to run the show but worried that going solo was career suicide…every lawyer who wanted to solo but didn’t know how to set up the office and make it work…every lawyer who never set foot in a courtroom but dreamed of one day practicing law their way. In short, this book is dedicated to becoming the lawyer you always wanted to be.
Click HERE to read a review by Kathie Troudt Riley in The Colorado Lawyer.
Solo Contendere (2010) (Table of Contents)
Marc Garfinkle, Esq.
This book is for lawyers who want to work for themselves, even if they just passed the Bar last week.
It is based on two premises:
1. You do not need to have a job in order to practice law; all you really need is work.
2. With appropriate precautions, you can be an effective, even excellent attorney, despite your lack of experience, or maybe because of it.
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