How to Start and Build a Law Practice - Fifth Edition (soft cover)
Jay G. Foonberg
$69.95

Now in its Fifth Edition, How to Start and Build a Law Practice has been completely updated and expanded. This landmark book has been successfully used by tens of thousands of lawyers as a basic primer for planning and growing successful practices. Inside this classic ABA bestseller, you'll find 128 chapters---including 30 new ones---packed with techniques for getting started, finding clients and the right location, setting fees, managing your office, maintaining an ethical and responsible practice, maximizing available resources, upholding your standards, and much more.

 

The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life and Work
George W. Kaufman
$39.95

The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life and Work is about making choices that honor both our professional responsibilities and our personal needs. It is designed to find ways that the law can fit inside your life -- not about how your life fits inside the law.

 

The Complete Guide to Marketing Your Law Practice
James A. Durham, Hollis Hatfield Weishar
$89.95

Discover creative marketing solutions that deliver breakthrough results! Here are the marketing secrets you didn’t learn in law school . . .

To succeed as a lawyer, it is no longer enough to have excellent technical and legal skills. Now, you must develop new business…deliver value-added services…and work to retain your current clients. Fortunately, there is a source that reveals the secrets of effective legal marketing and business development. Published by the ABA Law Practice Management Section, The Complete Guide to Marketing Your Practice is packed with practical ideas, outlines, strategies, sample worksheets and marketing plans, and much more, that will help you establish a successful, profit-enhancing marketing program in your firm.

Flying Solo: A Survival Guide for the Solo Lawyer, Fourth Edition
William K. Gibson
$89.95

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.

Law Office Procedures Manual for Solos and Small Firms, Third Edition
Demetrios Dimitriou
$79.95

Completely Revised and Updated! A complete and easy-to-customize manual for all your firm's policies and procedures. Law Office Procedures Manual for Solos and Small Frims, Second Edition, provides everything you need to set policies and establish procedures that will keep your office operating effieciently and productively. Not only does this guide provide an organized and flexible format for customizing your own office procedures manual, it acts as a step-by-step guide to building and maintaining a thoroughly professional staff and practice. New and Improved Editon! Law Office Procedures Manual for Solos and Small Frims, Second Edition, has been revised and expanded from the first edition entitled, Law Office Staff Manual for Solos and Small Law Firms. Mr. Dimitriou has added a great deal of new information to address the many changes affecting the practice of law in the 21st century. New chapters are included on such topics as the family and medical leave act, performance evaluations, Internet use, e-mail privacy, the firm Web site, and referrals to other firms. Entire Manual Text on Diskette! An accompanying diskette contains the text of Law Office Procedures Manual for Solos and Small Frims, Second Edition, in Microsoft Word 6.0 and ASCII formats, and the American Bar Association grants you permission to use, copy or modify any part of the text to create your own manual.

 

How to Build and Manage a Personal Injury Practice, Second Edition
K. William Gibson
$64.95

Tips, strategies and tactics to help you open ? and keep open ? your personal injury practice
Starting your own personal injury practice can be exhilarating ? or completely frustrating. Everyday you're faced with critical decisions whether it's choosing a partner...selecting the right cases...hiring new employees...or purchasing computer hardware. You may not realize it now, but these decisions can significantly impact your future financial success and growth. Wouldn't you like to learn from someone who has made the right decisions? Someone who understands your business challenges and can offer practical advice?

How to Build and Manage an Employment Law Practice
Mindy Farber
$54.95

Learn how to do it right from someone who knows the ropes. If beginning and maintaining an employment law practice seems forbidding, relax: someone s done your homework for you. In How to Build and Manage an Employment Law Practice, you can take advantage of the comprehensive experience and knowledge of one of the country s leading employment attorneys. Written in a direct and accessible style, this guide distills 20 years of experience into the essentials that every employment attorney needs to know. You ll avoid the most common mistakes that plague startup practices, and obtain valuable advice that can help you at every stage of your practice s growth.

 

How to Build and Manage an Estates Practice
Daniel B. Evans
$54.95

Tips, strategies and tactics to help you open — and keep open — your estates practice
An estates practice is considered one of the most challenging and complex areas of the law. Starting your own estates practice or building the one you have takes time and determination. Whether you want to set up your own firm or improve your current practice, How to Build and Manage and Estates Practice can help you make your practice a success!

Lawyers' Guide to Marketing on the Internet, Second Edition
Timothy J. Moses , Gregory H. Siskind
$79.95

Unless you've been on a desert island for the past few years, you've heard plenty about the Internet. And, you probably know many law firms in your area or specialty that already have Internet sites. If you're now wondering how to unleash -- and exploit -- the capabilities of the Internet in your marketing strategy, you'll find answers in this book!