Make It Your Own Law Firm: The Ultimate Law Student’S Guide to Owning, Managing, and Marketing Your Own Successful Law Firm

Spencer Marc Aronfeld

Jan 2011 · AuthorHouse

About this ebook

In "Make It Your Own Law Firm: The Ultimate Law Student's Guide to Owning, Managing, and Marketing Your Own Successful Law Firm" Spencer Aronfeld writes a personal and revealing account on how to start your own law firm. Whether you are in law school, recently graduated or a practicing attorney thinking of establishing your own law firm, this book provides a step-by-step road map. Aronfeld started his own law practice upon graduation from law school. He provides practical advice that will enable anyone with a deep passion to practice law to become the lawyer that they always wanted to be. Here is what lawyers are saying: "Whether you have ever considered starting your own firm or simply want to improve your practice at your existing firm (whether big or small), I urge you to purchase the book Make It Your Own Law Firm by Spencer Aronfeld, a trial attorney in Miami, Florida. I recommend you buy it not so much for the helpful advice he gives on how to develop your practice (and theres plenty of that) but more for the writing. What Spencer does, which few non-fiction writers can do, is to move you emotionally. He tells stories and puts you in the middle of them with him and makes you feel what he did. It is a unique and valuable gift for a lawyer, because ultimately we are story-tellers and we are tasked not only to affect the jurors minds but also to touch their hearts. Spencers writing style demonstrates he is the consummate story-teller and his diction and cadence and style are worth emulating. So, buy the book. Yes, it has great practice tips. But buy it because you will see what great writing is about. Clear, direct, moving and effective. Keep writing Spencer." Frank Ramos, Esquire

Ratings and reviews

As a lawyer who has practiced employment law for 25 years and had my own firm for 21 of them, I didn't expect to learn much from Make It Your Own Law Firm. I thought it might make a nice gift to a young lawyer. I was astounded at the insight Spencer Aronfeld pours into every page. He takes you by the hand and walks with you as you decide whether to go to law school, whether work for a law firm or be a solo, what type of law to practice, how to hire and fire staff, business development, ethics and even when to quit practicing or take a sabbatical. The helpful lists of questions to ask and checklists give lawyers at every stage (even old dogs like me) the ability to quickly determine what they need to do to move their practice forward. The heartfelt stories of his own practice mistakes and victories give the reader a real feel for what it is like to be a solo practitioner. He tells the good (independence) and the bad (making sure the restrooms have toilet paper, working day and night). The truth of solo practice flows out of the pages of this wonderful book. While most lawyers won't put everything he suggests into use, every solo and small firm practitioner, and everyone thinking about hanging up their own shingle, will find something useful to apply to their own lives in this book. It's a must-give to recent law school graduates, young lawyers, and newly laid off attorneys.