HELP WANTED 
It didn’t take long for Springfield attorney Daniel Johnson to know he’d found the perfect employee.
“Walking around the office, she just seemed to know exactly what we needed,” says Johnson, who has practiced as a solo for more than a decade.
He found his paralegal, Cindy Peterson, through the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys’ listserv.
”She said, [...]
EIGHT ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
Dennis Donahue III, an Olivette intellectual property attorney, works out of a home office in his basement. He hung out his own shingle in September, after a decade at Husch Blackwell Sanders.
“Ten years ago, I definitely would not have been ready,” he says. “Even five years ago. There is a time in your career, though, [...]
ONLINE HELP FOR SOLOS
Ethics
www.mochiefcounsel.org Practice management and ethics advice, plus links to rules and other state legal sites
www.mo-legal-ethics.org Missouri Bar legal ethics counsel
Practice management
http://members.mobar.org/lpmonline/ Missouri Bar law practice management
http://www.abanet.org/lpm/lpt American Bar Association law practice management
http://pa-lawpracticemanagement.com Consultant Ellen Freedman blogs on the business side of practicing law
http://www.olmsteadassoc.com John Olmstead & Associates consulting firm Web site
http://lawbizblog.com Ed Poll’s LawBiz [...]
MONEY MATTERS
Stephen Bough, a solo practitioner in Kansas City, recalls when a friend was weighing the move to solo practice.
“He came up with two budgets: the ‘we’re great’ budget and the ‘we suck’ budget,” says Bough, a personal injury attorney. “The second was: ‘What happens if we don’t get paid for awhile, if we don’t get [...]
LONE GUN
This issue of Practice, Practice focuses on how to launch a solo practice. Going solo is not for the faint of heart. And it’s certainly not something to jump into on a whim.
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