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Online Publications

The Law Office Management Assistance Program offers a variety of online resources including the Practice Aid Guide and other publications, articles and checklists to assist an attorney in today's environment manage his or her practice.

To request additional material or suggest publications/ articles to be listed in this area please submit comments to Eric Barefield.

   Practice Aid Guide: The Essentials of Law Office Management

Published by the Louisiana State Bar Association and underwritten by Gilsbar, Inc. and CNA Insurance Company. The Practice Aid Guide Subcommittee of the LSBA Practice Assistance and Improvement Committee developed the guide to help attorneys with basic systems and forms to manage a law office.

Download all Practice Aid Guide Material and Forms

   Rebuilding Your Practice After Disaster Strikes

The Louisiana State Bar Association, in conjunction with the Lawyers' Assistance Program, Gilsbar, Inc., and CNA, created manuals detailing steps to rebuild your practice post disaster.

Abobe Acrobat Document January 12, 2006 Seminar (1.5 MB)
Abobe Acrobat Document October 7, 2005 Seminar (2.12 MB)

 

Miscellaneous Articles and Material
Below you’ll find a wide variety of articles and material collected from multiple bar associations, legal professionals and legal entities.

   Miscellaneous Articles

 Remote Web Site  A Lawyer's Guide to Mobile Computer Security
      by Ellen Freedman, Reid Trautz and Jim Calloway (Oklahoma Bar)
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  Basic Principles of Automated Litigation Support
      by Tom O'Conner of the Legal Electronic Document Institute
 

 Remote Web Site  E-Discovery The New Federal Rules
      by Jerry Green and Susan Carns (Oklahoma Bar)
 

 Remote Web Site  Conflict Checking Systems From A to Z
      by Jim Calloway (Oklahoma Bar)
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  Planning a Successful Law Firm Web Site
      by Michael L. Goldblatt
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  Technology and Lawyers
      by Charles F. Thensted
 

 Remote Web Site  Gilsbar Loss Prevention Forms
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  The Louisiana Lawyer and Other People's Money: A Guide to Managing Client Funds
      The Louisiana Bar Foundation, Louisiana Bar Association, Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board, Coregis Insurance Organizations, Office of Loss Prevention Gilsbar Inc.
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  Picking The "Best" Law Office Software
      by Jim Calloway (Oklahoma Bar)
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  The Fastcase User Guide
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  10 Ways "Solo" Made Me A Lawyer
      by Shannan L. Hicks
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  Safeguarding Data Post Katrina
      by Ernest Svenson
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  Organizing Cases Electronically
      by Ernest Svenson
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  Easy to Use, Easy to Lose
      ©2005 Law.com Legal Technology
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  Mediations Settlements Applicability of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act
      by Robert S. Dampf
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  Legal Technology
      Tyler G. Storms
 


   Opening A Law Office

 Remote Web Site  Hanging Out a Shingle
      (Georgia Bar)
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  New Law Practice/New Office Checklist:
      A checklist prepared by the Florida Bar Association.
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  Office Sharing Checklist:
      A checklist compiled by Alabama Bar Association's Law Office Management Program.
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  Unlock Your Potential - Hanging Out Your Shingle:
      A 79 page PDF from the ABA Young Lawyer's Division on setting up a law practice.
 


   Closing Your Office

 Abobe Acrobat Document  ABA Checklist on closing a law practice.
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  Florida Checklist regarding closing a law practice.
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  LSBA Ethic's opinion regarding leaving the practice.
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  New Hampshire Bar article on retirement.
 

 Remote Web Site  Senior Lawyers.org
 

 Abobe Acrobat Document  79 page closing your practice guide from the Legal Society of Upper Canada
 


 
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