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• How to Perform Solo and Small Law Firm Client Intake

  FindLaw's guide for solo or small law firm practitioners on the client intake process.

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• Creating a Client-Driven Law Firm

  Despite improved marketing and planning strategies, many law firms fail against the competition because they lack the infrastructure to sustain their efforts and achieve results. The push for increased volume and leverage and the lack of client-service and project-management skills have driven clients to look elsewhere for legal services. This article describes the need for change in law practices and offers a change process that will allow firms to stay in the race.

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• Starting a Law Firm: Finding Your Niche

  A key decision when launching a new firm is deciding "what you are." The days of the general practice lawyer are gone. Your chances for success are much greater if you limit yourself to a particular area of law where you can become an expert.

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• How to Start a Law Firm: Picking a Practice Area

  Picking a practice area for your law practice is an important decision for many reasons including: avoiding legal malpractice; being able to pay the bills; and career satisfaction. Increasingly, clients expect their lawyers to focus their practices on a particular area of the law.

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• What is a Small Business?

  The Small Business Act states that a small business concern is "one that is independently owned and operated and which is not dominant in its field of operation." The law also states that in determining what constitutes a small business, the definition will vary from industry to industry to reflect industry differences accurately.

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• The Attorney Bio: Watch What You Say About Yourself

  It makes a difference how you present yourself -- in person and online. Accordingly, lawyers make sure their appearance is businesslike, their stationery reflects their firm, and their business cards include all their key contact information. Lawyers should also devote the same attention to their bios online.

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• Coworking: Office Space Options for Solo Lawyers and Small Firms

  Coworking is an attractive option for the attorney ready to move on from home-based, shoestring operations but not ready for the expense of setting up a private office in town.

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• PRI Ranks of Best and Worst State Tort Systems in US

  When planning to start a law firm, picking a practice area for your law practice is an important decision for many reasons, including avoiding legal malpractice, being able to pay the bills, and career satisfaction.

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• The ABA’s Attack on “Unauthorized” Practice of Law and Consumer Choice

  When the American Bar Association announced its intention to draft a model Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL) statute, few observers expected this project to open the practice of law to lay competition and wider consumer choice.

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