Law Office on a Laptop, Second Edition: How to Set Up Your Own Successful Mobile Law Practice

What is a Mobile Law Practice? A law practice that is available when and where your clients need you. Structuring your practice as a mobile law practice allows you the flexibility to go to your clients, to work from your home office or to move to different offices. With today’s technology, the options are limitless. When you structure your Law Office on a Laptop, you have control over your hours, your overhead, and your life.

This is a step-by-step interactive resource manual for starting up and running a successful mobile law practice. In this revised Second Edition, there is over 20% more information, including how to launch a solo practice and an expanded section on marketing through social media.

With sample forms, helpful links, website information and checklists, this book has mapped out everything an attorney needs to set up their mobile law practice for success.

• Considerations for Your Practice
• Setting up Forms and Procedures
• Evaluating Systems and Software
• Marketing Yourself and Getting Clients
• Using Social Media
• State-by-State Guide for Law Practice Management
• 10 Tips for a Successful Solo Law Practice

In addition to the helpful links and resources, this book provides checklists of Goals and Opportunities to pursue so that by the end, you’ll have a concrete plan of action to start or enhance your own law practice.

When attorneys, Catherine Hodder and Kelly C. Sturmthal, started their law firm on a tight budget, they rejected the notion of the typical law office and went to clients’ homes or offices. They found they could have more control over their overhead while delivering professional customized services for their clients. Using their own experiences, they want to educate other attorneys who wish to have more control over their careers and lives.

Advance Reviews:

...Catherine Hodder and Kelly Sturmthal have managed to do something no American law school has yet to do - prepare lawyers for a successful solo practice!...This innovative guide, both practical and succinct, answers a very real need in today's contemporary legal market for options beyond the traditional models of practice - Amy Impellizzeri, Author of Lawyer Interrupted

...a great resource for any professional who is thinking about striking out on their own.” - Karrie Bunting, Esq.

“…a book that impressively covers all the aspects of a law practice that one ought to think about before opening up shop…” - Liz Johnson, Esq., author of the Young, Hungry and Committed blog for lawyers.

There are many questions when you start a practice and this book gets them covered - Hope Wood, Esq.

I love all the information on different places to use social media.  Chapter 5 is, by far, my favorite chapter of the book! - Jennifer Hamey, Esq.