Federal Judiciary

"Starting a New Law Office: A Checklist" - Texas Bar Journal

By Michael Smith

My article "Starting a New Law Office: A Checklist" is the cover story and lead article in this month's Texas Bar Journal.  TBJ lent me the artwork from the article to use in the slide show for the accompanying webcast last Wednesday - I'll post a link to the webcast as soon as it's up, for those interested see it live (including the fire alarm in the State Bar building that ended it about 30 seconds early!)
I appreciate TBJ's giving me the opportunity to share what I learned starting my new office back in January, and hope the article is useful to practitioners out there who are thinking about doing the same thing.  As I say in the article, there is a lot of good literature out there about opening your own office, but what I thought would be helpful is a true checklist, pointing out not just what needs to be done in a more or less exhaustive fashion, but also in what order.

Full post as published by Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice on July 05, 2008 (boomark / email).