I am looking into starting my own firm with one other attorney. I have never been a partner or solo so I am trying to figure out best practices right now. I would appreciate any advice on starting up, things to avoid, preferred software, which gods to pray to, etc. The goal is to be virtual and to primarily do PI with a small amount of business services (my current book is mostly business litigation/contacts/outside counsel work).

Thank you all in advance! This is pretty daunting.

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This was me exactly 1 year ago. Use filevine for you practice management software

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Filevine is garbage

I cannot recommend Clio enough. It runs our whole practice.

We started our solo firm a couple of months ago and brought about 50 clients with us from our old firm (in our jurisdiction, attorneys should send a departure letter to all clients asking them to choose whether to follow the attorney or remain with the firm).

My concern with mostly PI would be to start with plenty of capital. We started our two man firm with $10,000 and we’re already paying ourselves decent draws after two months of business.

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Great advice thank you

Congratulations by the way

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