A new trust accounting guide, Keeping Client Trust Accounts with QuickBooks Online Essentials (2012), is now posted at practicelaw. Mike Trittipo, the MSBA’s director of technology, has been drafting and editing the guides that walk through setting up trust accounting in in various software programs since 1998, when he started with Using QuickBooks 6.0 for Lawyers’ …
New practicelaw Resource on Starting a Law Firm
Approximately 85% of practicelaw users are in a solo or small firm. With that in mind, over the years we’ve added several practice management resources beyond our core substantive form libraries. Now we’re pleased to provide access to a new Minnesota Lawyers Mutual (MLM) online tool: ”Roadmap to Start and Run a Law Practice.” MLM and the MSBA have partnered …
Workers’ Compensation Insurance for Solo Attorneys
Workers’ compensation insurance is one of those areas of running a business that we all know we should pay attention to, but which often suffers from neglect. Usually that’s because business owners (including solo attorneys) know little about what workers’ comp is or where to obtain it. Workers’ compensation insurance provides wage replacement and medical …
SoloSmall Firm Boot Camp
What’s worse than graduating thousands of dollars in debt? Answer: Not having the skills to hit the ground running and start making money. As we discussed in a previous post, law school graduates are struggling with education debt and are graduating into a poor job market. To make matters worse, recent articles in The Atlantic …
Giving Thanks
Thanksgiving is upon us. For some, holidays are a joyful time and a wonderful reminder of what we have. For others, however, the holidays bring stress and depression. One way to bolster your internal defenses against stress and depression is to make a conscious effort to give thanks. Being in a state of thankfulness is …