"Open for Business is a new professional series from Sphinx. The goal of the series is to arm the professional with information they don"t teach in school. It provides practical guidance on starting and running a business, with a specificeye toward the needs of the professional going out on their own. Start Your Own Law Practice is the first title in this series of professional career titles. It explains that starting your own firm (no matter the type) is the same as opening up your own small business. Taking this approach, Start Your Own Law Practice makes you a small business owner first-a practicing lawyer second. Targeting the newly graduated law student, as well as the seasoned professional leaving a firm to start his or her own practice, this book identifies all the components of starting a business with emphasis on the special needs of a law firm. Basic business decisions are covered, from structuring the organization, to financing it, to actually setting up the...