1. Checklist of questions to ask during the interview to determine appropriate business organization
2. Form(s) to gather information elicited from clients
3. Checklist of elements to discuss with client on appropriateness of various formats, including:

Parties
Perpetual existence
Control consideration
Liability of investor
Formal requirement of organization
Taxes, fees, and costs
Transferability of interests
Profits and salary
Pension, profit sharing, working compensation, and group insurance, etc.
Financing consideration, if any
Securities and blue sky considerations

4. Articles of incorporation
5. Partnership agreement
6. Minutes of first meeting of incorporation
7. Minutes of first meeting of directors
8. Minutes of stockholders' meeting
9. Minutes of regular board of directors meeting
10. IRS § 1244 plan and shares
11. Sub-chapter S corporation
12. Appropriate shareholder agreements
13. A voting trust agreement
14. A registration under blue sky laws
15. An asset purchase agreement
16. A memorandum on possible violation of bylaws
17. Memorandum covering legal and tax aspects of sale and/or purchase of a business, including:

1. The contract for sale
2. Tax documents
3. Securities documents

1. The documents appropriate to the liquidation or termination of a business

1. Difference between acquisition of stock and assets by difference entity forms, tax consequences, etc.
2. Transfer of assets by corporation and distribution of proceeds to the shareholders, tax consequences
3. Transfer of all stock by shareholders to a new enterprise, tax consequences
4. Other methods of acquisition

1. The bulk sales provision of the Uniform Commercial Code and its applications
2. Article 9, the secured transaction, and the conditional sale; their use in a commercial transaction

1. Fee arrangement
2. Appearance
3. Waiver of arraignment
4. Motion to quash or dismiss
5. Motion to quash information and discharge defendant
6. Motion to suppress and demand for Walker hearing
7. Motion to suppress physical evidence
8. Motion in limine
9. Checklist of questions to be asked client during initial interview

1. Review of all available public records, i.e., complaint, warrant, traffic ticket or summons, prosecutors authorization, accident report, search warrant affidavit, and return
2. Where appropriate, review of the court file
3. Review of the elements of the offense with which the client is charged and the possible sentence

1. Conduct a client interview using the previously prepared checklist:

1. To obtain as much information as possible, i.e., name, age, address, employment, Social Security number, marital status, organization memberships, all other relevant information, facts of the offense, addresses of witnesses, incidents at the police station and details, such as whether client took a polygraph, special defenses, or psychiatric problems
2. To discuss fees

1. Client self-help
2. Discovery
3. Interviews of police and witnesses

1. Discovery
2. Motion to quash
3. Motion to dismiss
4. Motion involving special defenses
5. Motion for change of venue
6. Motion for disqualification of judge
7. Motion for joint trial
8. Motion for consolidation of charges
9. Motion for severance (or separate trials)
10. Motion to endorse witnesses
11. Motion to suppress evidence
12. Motion in limine
13. Motion and offer of proof - sex cases

11. Where appropriate, prepare and file these pre-trial notices:

11. Negotiate a plea bargain
12. Be familiar with the mechanics of a guilty plea or no contest and have understanding of legal differences
13. Be aware of the sentencing alternatives
14. Be familiar with the mechanics of a criminal trial, including:

16. Try a criminal case to verdict
17. Participate in a probation hearing
18. Seek post-conviction relief, including making appeal to the next appropriate court

1. Client interview checklist
2. A complaint
3. A summons
4. Interrogatory
5. List of questions to be asked in oral depositions
6. Motion compelling some action
7. Final judgement

1. Issues of custody
2. Child support
3. Alimony and use of property and debts

1. Property
2. Conservatorship and support
3. Alimony
4. Tax consequence

1. Modifying a judgement
2. Enforcing a judgement
3. For the protection of the family
4. Qualified Domestic Relations Order

1. purchase financing
2. structural and mechanical inspection
3. pest inspection
4. environmental inspection, e.g., radon gas, lead-based paint, underground-storage tank, soil and water quality; septic tank and drain field
5. building code/zoning/historic district compliance (where applicable)
6. attorney approval of contract language, title evidence, and survey
7. contingency extension and removal forms

1. Mandatory Disclosure Statements (where applicable):

1. Sellers Disclosure (condition of land, structure, mechanical features; improvements)
2. Lead-Based Paint Disclosure and related information booklet (federally-mandated)
3. Property transfer affidavits (for governmental assessor/treasurer)

1. Title evidence documents:

1. Title search or abstract
2. Title insurance commitment (American Land Title Association) [owner; mortgage]:

1. Exceptions
2. Exclusions
3. Terms of coverage

1. Construction lien affidavit (confirming that no contractor, laborer, or supplier is entitled to place construction lien on property)
2. Extended coverage questionnaire (disclosing unrecorded deeds, liens, easements and rights-of-way, leases and rights of parties in possession; bankruptcy filings of owner or party in possession; notice of present or future assessments)
3. Survey (stake or informal mortgage report)

1. Documents of title:

1. Warranty deed
1. Quit claim deed
2. Administrators deed (fiduciary or deed C)
3. Condominium master deed
4. Land contract (installment sale agreement)
5. Trust deed (for security, analogous to mortgage)
6. Tax deed
7. Bill of sale (personal property)

1. Liens and other limitations on title (consensual and non-consensual):

1. gage and related note or line-of-credit contract (fixed-rate; variable-rate)
1. Construction (mechanics lien)
2. Tax lien
3. Easement and right-of-way
4. Private road maintenance agreement
5. Condominium/cooperative/homeowners Association by-laws, occupancy rules and regulations; subdivision/municipal building and use restrictions

1. sing documents (sale and purchase) [in addition to those described above, and as applicable]:

1. Sellers warranty as to condition of property; disclaimer of warranty; commercial warranty (policy of insurance covering defects in structure and systems of building)
22. Discharge of mortgage or lien
23. Power-Of-Attorney (with legal description of property)

1. Escrow agreement (utility charges; post-closing repairs; deed for installment sale contract)

25. Title insurance policy

26. Closing statement (Seller; Purchaser)

27. Uniform settlement Statement (HUD-1)

28. Internal Revenue Service Form 1099-S (disclosure of sales proceeds to Seller)

29. Occupancy agreement (Seller to remain in possession briefly following closing)

1. Lease

1. Real estate construction contract

1. Purchase and sale agreements
2. Residential real estate financing
3. Notes and mortgages
4. Title examination
5. Title insurance
6. Zoning and environmental considerations
7. Closings
8. The sale and/or purchase of a condominium
9. Residential landlord and tenant law
10. Commercial leasing
11. Commercial loan closings
12. Foreclosures

1. Prepare:

1. Federal income tax return with at least five schedules appropriate to the 1040
2. State income tax return
3. City income tax return
4. A tax opinion
5. An analysis of a new set of tax regulations
6. An application to the IRS for a ruling
7. A memorandum in an ethical problem associated with tax practice

2. Divorce taxation - be familiar with the income tax problems that arise upon separation and divorce

1. Child support
2. Dependency exemption and property settlements
3. Opportunities and consideration from income, gift, and estate planning

3. Business taxation

3. Real estate taxation

1. Be familiar with the federal and state tax aspects of estate administration
2. Prepare the estate and income tax returns involved in the administration of three different-sized estates
3. Prepare a gift tax return

13. Participate in a CLE seminar on tax law

1. Checklist of questions to be asked during initial client interview
2. Checklist of documents to be secured from client for examination
3. Form for gathering information solicited
4. Post-client interview memorandum
5. Estate plan to be submitted to client, including discussion of tax aspects of various alternative means of distribution
6. An outright distribution will (may also be known as "simple will"), including provisions for:

1. Specific bequests to beneficiaries
2. Contingent trusts for minor beneficiaries
3. Staggered distribution for trusts to beneficiaries
4. Executor (to serve without bond)
5. Trustee
6. Guardian
7. Letter of instruction
8. Affidavit of execution

1. Estate plan outline and tax computation after initial interview

1. Outline to include discussion of use of living trusts to avoid probate
1. Outline to include discussion of life insurance available to provide liquidity to pay estate taxes

1. An estate plan, to include:

1. Pour-over will
2. Revocable Living Trust

1. Credit shelter trust
2. Marital deduction (QTIP) trust

1. Life Insurance trust and pour-over will
2. A charitable remainder trust or charitable lead trust
3. A memorandum of law or a brief in a problem related to estate planning
4. A memorandum on an ethical problem associated with estate planning

1. Existing will and trusts
2. Life insurance policies
3. Pension and/or profit sharing agreements, and IRAs