LibGuides: New Attorney Resources: Career Management

Setting Up Your Own Practice

If you are considering starting your own law practice, check out this guide with resources for setting up, financing, and managing your practice.

Starting a Law Practice (Drake Law Library Guide)

Recent Career Management Books

Here are just a few recent titles. To find additional books, search for law-vocational guidance or lawyers-employment in SuperSearch, the Drake Libraries catalog.

The Formation of Professional Identity by Patrick Longan; Daisy Hurst Floyd; Timothy Floyd
Call Number: Law Library Stacks K115 .L66 2020
From Law School to Lawyer by Jonathan McDowell
Call Number: Law Library Stacks KF300 .M38 2015
Includes tips on starting a firm, writing a business plan, getting clients, and practicing law.
Build Your Practice the Logical Way by Carol Greenwald; Steven Skyles-Mulligan
Call Number: Law Library Stacks KF311 .G74 2012
Excellence in the Workplace, Legal and Life Skills in a Nutshell by Kay Kavanagh; Paula Nailon
Call Number: Law Library Stacks KF297.Z9 K38 2018
Discusses "soft" (people) skills new lawyers need.
Small Firms, Big Opportunity: How to Get Hired (and Succeed) in the New Legal Economy by Linda Calvert Hanson; Samantha C. Williams
Call Number: Law Library Stacks KF297 .H325 2012
The New What Can You Do with a Law Degree: A Lawyer's Guide to Career Satisfaction Inside, Outside & Around the Law by Larry Richard, Tanya Hanson & Deborah L. Arron
Call Number: Law Library Stacks KF297 .Z9 A772 2012
Law Firm Survival Manual by Nancy B. Rapoport & Jeffrey D. Van Niel
Call Number: Law Library Stacks KF297 .R37 2014
Life after Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have by Liz Brown
Call Number: Law Library Stacks KF297 .B725 2013
The Essential Formbook: Comprehensive Management Tools for Lawyers by Gary A. Munneke; Anthony E. Davis
Call Number: Law Library Reference KF318 .M85 2000
Forms for conducting legal business: partnership and organizational agreements; client intake; fees, billing, and collection; human resources; file management; firm financial analysis; disaster planning and professional liability.

New Attorney Resources: Career Management

Setting Up Your Own Practice

Recent Career Management Books

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