![]() ![]() Jeffrey Allen has published Checklist: Setting up A Law Office that is helpful from my brief review at See Checklist for Setting up a New Law Office at Īnother checklist for opening a law office can be found at There are some published checklists for setting up a law office available for downloading from the internet. These include a publication of the Michigan Bar: How to kit: Open a Law Office See: Here are some other resources that I don’t have personal knowledge about, but which are available on the internet. The book I’d recommend is Jay’s How to start and Build a Law Practice, 5 th Edition. He is an expert on the subject of small law offices and office management. Jay and I participated in law office management seminars around the country. I highly recommend my friend Jay Foonberg’s writings. So, with that backgroundI thought I’d share some brief sources of information about opening your own law office. The strange thing is that early in my practice I published articles and books as well as participated in seminars on small law firm law office management for many years.In fact, I was selected as a fellow in the national College of Law Practice Management. Even today our firm is small with only six partners and three associate lawyers. He listened to my story and agreed to loan me the money in spite of my lack of assets.I have kept that bank as my primary bank ever since and have processed millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements through that bank out of appreciation and loyalty.I remained a solo lawyer doing exclusively plaintiff’s litigation for many years, but with a large number of paralegals until I began to add lawyers. I had been turned down for a loan by the local branches of the national banks, but Jim Bishop, God rest his soul, was the president of thesmall local bank in town. I am hardly qualified since it has been over forty years ago that I borrowed money from a small town bank in the town where I was practicing to buy an old house, remodel it into an office and start my own law practice as a solo lawyer. The reason is that oneof the lawyers who went through the Spence Trial College e-mailed me that he was taking the challenging step of opening his own law office and suggested I offer some information about it. This posting is unusual because it involves law office management rather then plaintiff’s trial work. ![]()
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