Starting a new practice is a major endeavor. You have business to develop, clients to find, an office to manage, and a great deal of legal technology to consider using. Following are resources culled by the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center (LTRC) to help ease the transition.

ABA Services
The LTRC Hotline: Contact the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center on the web, by e-mail, or call (312) 988-5465 for help with questions about technology.

ABA-CLE Newsflash: Sign up to receive monthly updates at your desktop about upcoming ABA-CLE programs and products in the practice area(s) of your choice.

ABA Ethics Research Service: Provides help when you have a sticky ethics issue.

ABA Member Advantage: Get great discounts (including retirement funds and insurance) just for being an ABA member!

Online Research Tools
Lawlink: The ABA's Legal Research Jumpstation. Includes a slew of websites you may find useful.

LTRC Legal Technology Web Search: This search engine focuses your query on some of our favorite legal technology websites, so you can get the information you need without going through dozens of pages of useless results.

ABA Journal's Blawg Directory: A collection of web logs (blogs) related to the practice of law that can be sorted alphabetically, by author type, region or law school.

Using Technology to Market Your Practice
How will you market your practice? By e-mail, a blog, or a website? Get tips on each below!

E-mail Marketing
Marketing your practice with blogs
Building a Web Site That Works

Purchasing Legal Technology Software for Your Law Office
Checklist for Purchasing Software for the Law Office

Practice and Case Management Software: Comparison Chart

Time & Billing Software: Comparison Chart

American Bar Association Sections for New Practitioners
GP|Solo, dedicated exclusively to the needs of general practitioners, solo and small law firm lawyers.

The ABA's Law Practice Management Section provides practical education and assistance to lawyers and firms in the core areas of the business of practicing law: Marketing, Management, Technology and Finance.

The Young Lawyers Division is open to all ABA members under 36 years old or who have been admitted to practice for five years or less.

Don't forget, the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center has scads of other resources that family law practitioners (whether firmly established or just starting out) will find helpful, so visit today!