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Starting a New Law Office: Ethical Concerns and Practical Pointers - TexasBarCLE webcast

By Michael Smith

I will be moderating an upcoming TexasBarCLE webcast next month Starting a New Law Office: Ethical Concerns and Practical Pointers.  The seminar is live via webcast on Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. CST.  The webcast counts for 1.5 hours MCLE credit, with one hour of that being ethics credit.  The registration fee is $95 - to get more information or register, click here.  The webcast arose out of the work I was doing on a paper on the subject that is slated for publication in the July issue of the Texas Bar Journal, so the webcast paper will be essentially the Bar Journal paper (at least that's the plan).

Topics include:

• Leaving your old firm: compensation issues, malpractice insurance coverage, file retention, taking clients, client notification
• Creating your new firm: setting up your business entity, EIN, bank accounts, etc.
• Setting up your new office
• Running your new office: pro-bono cases, filing system, supplies, software, legal research, employment contract and letters of engagement, calendaring system
• Client relations: advertising, internet presence

Faculty is:

• Michael Smith, Marshall - Siebman, Reynolds, Burg, Phillips & Smith LLP
  
• Rob Crain, Dallas - Crain Lewis, LLP
• Laura Benitez Geisler, Dallas - Jones Geisler, LLP

If you're not able to watch the webcast live, about a week after the webcast, the program will be archived at TexasBarCLE.com, and you can watch it there.  Doesn't matter whether you signed up ahead of time and couldn't make it, or signed up afterwards - either way you can watch the webcast at your leisure.  I've watched a couple of these recently and really liked the format - you can sit at your desk and watch a seminar of interest to you, pausing it as needed to handle work that can't be put off.

Full post as published by Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice on June 17, 2008 (boomark / email).