Welcome to the Law Practice Management (LPM) area of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Web site.
We hope you will consider this your first stop whenever you have questions, encounter issues
or need resources to assist you in managing the business side of your practice.
This area includes information to assist you from cradle to grave: from starting up a practice to
closing and/or selling a practice and all the challenges in between, including those involving human
resources, financial management, technology, marketing, records management and a myriad of others.
Start your search by clicking on one of the topic areas below. If you would like additional
assistance on any business management challenge, please contact PBA Law Practice Management
Coordinator Ellen Freedman, CLM. You may reach her at 1-800-932-0311, Ext. 2228, or by
clicking on the Ask Ellen link listed below.
PBA Member Benefits
Your wide range of PBA member benefits includes InCite® free online legal research, award-winning publications,
excellent malpractice and health insurance plans, financial services, discount express shipping, office
equipment and retail discounts, Web site development and more.
Click here to review your entire list
of benefits.
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PBA Solo and Small Firm Practice Section
The PBA has a dynamic Solo and Small Firm Practice Section designed for lawyers whose practices cover
a broad range of issues as solo or small firm practitioners. Members can benefit from the flow of information
through the section's quarterly newsletter about such key matters as law office management and the
latest developments in law office automation and technology. Also, the section typically has a program
for its members at the PBA Annual Meeting and sponsors a spring section retreat featuring CLE and time
for more casual networking. Any member of the PBA is eligible to join the section for a small annual dues payment.
Click
here to find out about the benefits of
membership in the PBA Solo and Small Firm Practice Section, including participation in the highly-valued
online section listserv that facilitates quick and easy communication with your peers across the state.
Click
here for a section overview.
To join the section, click
here and scroll down to the listing for the Solo and Small Firm Practice Section.
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Join a PBA Listserv
What is a listserv? Simply put, it is an Internet-based discussion group of individual subscribers.
Discussions are accomplished through the use of e-mail. By sending ("posting") an e-mail comment
or question to the listserv, you are actually sending it to the in box of everyone who subscribes
to the listserv, without having to know or use their individual e-mail addresses.
Click here to discover what listservs are maintained by the PBA.
Note: Not all PBA committees and sections have listservs and membership in a committee
or section is required before joining that committee’s or section’s listserv.
If you are already a member of a committee or section and wish to join the listserv
for that committee or section, this is the place to do it.
PBA Technology Blog
The PBA recently introduced its technology blog, which is moderated by Law Practice Management Coordinator
Ellen Freedman, CLM. All PBA members may access and contribute to the technology blog.
Here you can search by topic area and see a consolidated collection of questions, answers and comments
in that topic area. Participate at any time by adding your comments to topics, regardless of when they
were originally posted. Here is an opportunity to find out what tech tools your peers are using and what
their experiences have been with various technologies.
Particularly active or relevant discussions on technology topics posted on the PBA Solo
and Small Firm Practice Section listserv will be "migrated" to the Technology Blog as a
resource available to all PBA members.
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