New editions of A Guide to Setting Up and Using Your Lawyer Trust Account and
A Guide to Setting Up and Running Your Law Office are available now on the Professional Liability Fund Web site.

A Guide to Setting Up and Using Your Lawyer Trust Account is designed to help you understand and fulfill your ethical obligation to protect the funds and property of your clients, pursuant to Rule 1.15 of the Oregon Rules of Professional Conduct. This book explains when to establish a trust account and what type to use. It also provides practical information about how to open and operate a trust account – including:

• How to keep trust account records
• How to reconcile the trust account
• What to do about unclaimed funds
• When to open a separate interest-bearing trust account for clients
• What to do about trust account overdrafts
• How to process retainers paid by credit card

A Guide to Setting Up and Running Your Law Office discusses how to open and successfully operate a law practice.  Topics include:

• Selecting the form of entity
• Choosing a location
• Buying a law practice
• Furnishing your office
• Budgeting
• Professional support and resource networks
• Case and client screening
• Fees
• Engagement, disengagement, and nonengagement letters
• Creating a conflicts system
• Calendaring and file tickling
• Time management
• Client relations
• Billing and collections
• Closing files
• Working with staff
• Contract work
• And more!

Download the new editions of these books today on the PLF Web site.