From Reader Michael Smith: A Checklist for Opening A Law Office

Have you started the final countdown to opening your practice?  Whether you have six months or 6 week weeks until take-off, you’ll find Michael Smith’s concise article, A Checklist for Opening A Law Office from this month’s issue of the Texas Bar Journal extremely useful.   What qualifies Smith to write this piece?  Well, he started…

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Resources for Solos and Small Firms Practicing Criminal Law

Russ Bensing of the Briefcase provides this quick but thorough recap  of the Supreme Court’s thirteen criminal law related decisions of the past term, with links to each of the decision.  Bensing describes that his summary keeps with the original intention of his blog, which was to "create a resource for solo practitioners and small…

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LA Solo/Small Firm Conference – I’m Back!

I hope to post more on the terrific Los Angeles County Small and Solo Law Conference where I spoke last week, in particular to share some of what I learned (yes, I don’t know it all yet!) from the impressive panel of speakers at the conference.  But for now, just a quick message to let…

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