Subject Index Law Practice and Office Management

How to learn those all-important unwritten rules of courthouse and courtroom practice that vary from circuit to circuit.

Recruiting employees and letting them go are both fraught with legal pitfalls. Here's how you can help your clients and your own firm avoid HR missteps.

The 2010 update of Illinois' ethics rules make it easier to sell a law practice. But what about practical issues like valuation and transition planning? Seasoned solos offer advice.

Succession planning might just be part of your ethical duty of diligence.

Not every law office VIP has a law license.

Limited scope or discrete task legal representation - aka "unbundling"- is a client- and lawyer-friendly idea whose time has come, proponents say.

A look at the trial lawyer's fiduciary and ethical responsibility to disclose, monitor, and control reimbursable case expenses incurred on behalf of clients.

An amazing amount of information about parties, witnesses, clients, businesses and more resides on the Internet. Here's how to find it.

Supervising employees, meeting a payroll - more things they didn't teach you in law school. Find out some of what you need to know.

Ethics rules oblige you to protect your clients and the profession.

Dressing for distress - nylons and sandals;  Settlement agreements: do the release first.

Can you really go straight from law school into solo practice? What are the surest ways to succeed — or stumble?

Q. Whats the best way to dress for court?
A. The way the judge says you should.

Whether you make it your primary online research tool or use it to supplement Westlaw or Lexis, Fastcase can save you money. Lots of it. Here’s how.

A look at Abraham Lincoln's legal practice in antebellum Illinois.

Don't make bad economic times worse with bad management decisions.

Selling or otherwise closing your private practice? Don't forget to take care of important business before you do.

Don't think your support staff can make or break you? Think again.

Plan for disasters natural and manmade now, while the river is in its banks.

Wondering whether your firm's compensation scheme needs an overhaul? Here's a look at what others are doing.