If you’re ready to take the plunge into fountain pens, here's guidance on beginner, intermediate and statement picks.

One of the first things you need when you open a new law practice is a mailing address. If you’re a solo practitioner, you may be working out of your house, but you may not want your clients or potential clients knowing where you live. You may want to invest in a mail service to create a virtual office address for your new firm.

Any lawyer who has been through the bar discipline process will tell you it was one of the most stressful, horrific experiences of their career. It truly is the low point. So you would think, having been through it once, they would do everything possible to avoid going through it again.

Camille Stell | Retirees returning to work is a rising trend. Here are lessons from attorney Will Graebe on his unexpected return to work.

Gray Robinson | The neuroscience behind implicit bias confirms that the unconscious has a great deal to do with our conscious experience of reality.

HotDocs templates allow you to customize document fields in a variety of useful ways. This excerpt from Affinity Consulting Group’s "HotDocs for Legal Professionals" walks you through it.

Brooke Lively | We see it all the time — the more law firms grow, the less profitable they become.

Do you have $500? Good. You’re the proud owner of a new law firm! (Seriously, congratulations.) Thanks mostly to the spate of technology advances made possible by cloud services, it is cheaper to practice law than ever before, because lawyers can virtualize much of what they do. ... Of course, if that’s the direction you’re going to take, you’ll be limited to free software, which there is a lot of, even if most of it has not insignificant drawbacks. It turns out vendors that don’t charge for their services have less-robust products. Go figure. So, let’s get down to brass tacks: What else will you want to pay for, and how much will it cost?

Tomas Suros | Managing an increasing volume of cases and court deadlines – sometimes in multiple jurisdictions – is one of the biggest time management challenges for law firms. 

Trust accounting mistakes strike fear in the hearts of well-intentioned lawyers. Megan Zavieh points to 5 things you can check today to ensure you are handling client funds correctly.