In my continuing quest to learn how to start a law firm in Minneapolis, MN, I thought I would talk a little bit about how to gather the information necessary to try and start and build a practice.
I love information. I love books. I love the ability to go to a book store, library, or other source to get knowledge. I was just reading a really interesting article in the New Yorker about the Vatican Library in Rome and all of the neat things they are doing. But, this post isn’t about libraries.
What this post is about is the information that I am trying to compile to teach myself how to start a family law firm in Apple Valley, MN. The first thing I did several years ago was start looking for some simple information which was written by an attorney. An old book that a lot of attorneys who want to start their own practices have mentioned is Jay Foonberg’s How To Start and Build a Law Practice. This guy appears to be the original man on the subject. If you are thinking about starting a law practice of your very own, there is no better place to start than here.
So I read it. And it’s good. But, there are other sources of information that I have located. Of course, blogs are good – especially this one. However, the version of Foonberg’s book that I was using was a little dated and lacked a lot of modern day marketing/networking information. The best sources I have found so far are Solo By Choice, by Carolyn Elefant and the starting a law firm blog. Both of these sources are excellent and very appropriate for me – a guy in his early 30s with about 3 years of practice under his belt and who is very adept at technology and social media.
I hope anybody reading this post tries out just one of these sources of information. Isn’t knowledge great?