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A guided learning path from exploring to launching to running your solo practice. Work through the stages in order, or jump to what you need.
The 8-stage launch path
Take the Solo Practice Readiness Assessment. Score eight dimensions — no pass/fail, just strengths, risks, and next actions.
Choose business and practice models that fit your capital, risk tolerance, and client type.
Confirm licensure, registration, CLE, advertising, trust, and entity rules in your jurisdiction.
Entity formation, EIN, banking, IOLTA, accounting, and tax elections — with professional review.
Professional liability, cyber, and general coverage. Secure practice management, storage, and backup.
Intake, conflicts, engagement, matter, calendar, billing, and trust-account controls.
Website disclosures, advertising review, and client-acquisition systems that comply with your rules.
Open for business with a controlled first wave of clients. Review at 30, 60, 90, 180, and 365 days.
Solo Practice Readiness Assessment
Score eight dimensions of readiness. We return strengths, risks, missing foundations, and concrete next actions — never a "qualified" or "unqualified" label. Honest input produces a useful plan.
Partner launch resource
LegalFuel — Start a Law Firm (The Florida Bar)
A free, bar-published hub that walks new solo and small-firm founders through the same decisions this path covers — incorporation, office space, trust accounting, technology, and marketing — with checklists, articles, podcasts, and free CLE. A strong external companion to the stages above, especially for Florida practitioners (much of the ethics and trust guidance tracks the national model rules).
Practice 2.0 — Start Your Practice (State Bar practice-management program)
A bar-run practice-management program modeled on the State Bar of Arizona's "Practice 2.0" hub. It publishes start-your-practice guides, a full library of client and trust-accounting forms, succession-planning resources, and practice-management best practices. It's a useful national reference for what a well-organized bar practice-management program offers — and a model for the resources your own state bar may provide. Look for the equivalent program in your jurisdiction.