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My husband’s ( Robert) practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. The practice is a general practice with a focus on estate planning, family law, and real estate. He is now sixty and suffering from Alzheimer’s. He has three legal
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Law Firm Succession Planning and Transitional Work
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I am the owner of a 16 lawyer litigation firm in San Diego, California. There are 6 non-equity partners and 9 associates. I am 65 and hoping to retire in the next five years. I am planning on offering…
Law Firm Succession Planning – Selling Practice to Non-Equity Partners or Associates in the Firm
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I am the sole owner of a five lawyer business transactional law firm in Cincinnati, Ohio. I am sixty-seven and hoping to retire in the next three to five years. Besides myself there are two non-equity partners and two…
Law Firm Marketing – Referral Networks
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Our firm is a six lawyer firm in ChicagoLand that specializes in the areas of estate planning, estate and trust administration, and elder law. Four of the six lawyers in the firm are equity partners and two are associates.…
Law Firm Merger – What Should We Discuss in our First Meeting
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I am a partner with two other partners in an estate planning firm in Seattle, Washington. All three of us are in our late sixties and contemplating retirement in the next few years. We have no associates in our…
Law Firm Management – How to Keep Branch Offices From Becoming Fiefdoms
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I am the sole owner of an estate planning firm in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have one branch office and are contemplating acquiring another practice that would give us a third office. We have a total of…
Law Firm Succession and Exit Strategy – Referring Out Work too Soon
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I am an estate planning attorney in Chicago. I am currently 72 and have been in practice and owned my own firm for 45 years. In the past I had an associate attorney in the firm and a couple…
Law Firm Succession – Using Affiliation or Of Counsel Relationships as a As a Pre-Merger Pilot Test
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I am sole owner of a law firm in San Rafael, California with an estate planning practice. I have two part-time attorneys, four paralegals and three legal assistants. I am in my late 70s and want to retire in…
Law Firm Structure and Governance
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We are a group of six partners that are in the process of leaving a well established firm in Los Angeles, California and will be starting our own firm. In our early planning we have been discussing how we…
Law Practice Succession Planning for a Sole Owner – A Question of Value
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I am a sole owner of a three attorney firm in Chicago suburbs. I am sixty-five and have two associates in the firm. We do estate planning, elder law, and estate administration exclusively. While I want to continue working…