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Bear Essentials: Toolbox for Starting Your Own Practice

By Michael C. Smith

According to Baylor Law School, on Wednesday, January 7 at 3:30 pm, "Michael C. Smith ('92) of Siebman, Reynolds, Burg, Phillips & Smith will speak on ethical concerns and practical pointers to starting a new law office. This will be helpful information even if you end up going to a small firm."  So if your firm has any law clerks down that way that you can't afford to hire now, just send them my way.  The meeting materials include a copy of my July 2008 Texas Bar Journal article on the subject - to make it easier to read, I sent the original version (without all the pretty pictures and the practically unreadable .45 pt font in the magazine).Download 08-06 - Opening A New Law Office
    This is one of those weeks for speeches, apparently.  In addition to Wednesday, today at lunch I gave a presentation to the Citizens Advisory Council here in Marshall on "The Marshall Patent Docket: History and a Practitioner's Perspective."  I saved In re TS Tech for last for sort of a crescendo of interesting recent cases affecting patent dockets. 

Full post as published by Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice on January 05, 2009 (boomark / email).