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What city?
Relocating from Seattle to Michigan, where I am licensed to practice law.
Oh thanks I’d appreciate it!
My main questions are: (1) total estimated set-up costs to start a solo tax/estate planning practice; (2) estimated recurring costs, necessary vs. discretionary; (3) useful resources/services for hiring any billing, support staff, etc. at minimum I expect I’ll need an experienced paralegal or legal secretary to handle some of the administrative matters that I have no experience with. (4) Estimated learning curve for someone with sophisticated US federal/international experience but only academic experience in estate planning, wills/trusts. (5) also particularly curious about marketing resources and costs.
Anything is helpful. Thank you!
Where are you currently based, OP? I think NYC is a good place to start. But the rent is pretty expensive.
Join Laura Cowan’s 2-hr lifestyle lawyer class. It’s $4,500 and will get you totally up to speed to open your own estate planning firm. It’s catered to estate planning attorneys. I’m enrolled right now and it’s great!
Also you need to invest in wealthcounsel. It has videos to teach you and is a drafting software. $500 initiation fee and $500/mo. Foretrust is less expensive but doesn’t offer lessons.
Also become a notary. Many banks don’t accept documents notarized by an attorney’s signature (even if the law says attorneys can notarize documents).
How do you plan to get clients?