Transcript Lawyers’ Practice Materials Barbara Swatt Engstrom Seattle University School of Law Everyday Law Office Documents • How to Start and Build a Law.

Lawyers’ Practice Materials
Barbara Swatt Engstrom
Seattle University School of Law
Everyday Law Office Documents
• How to Start and Build a Law Practice
• WSBA Law Office Management Assistance
Program (LOMAP)
www.wsba.org/lawyers/services/lomap.htm
Choosing a Business Entity
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CLEs
BNA Corporate Practice Series Portfolios
Business Law Monographs
Business Organizations (Bender)
Forms for Business Entity
• Topical: Fletcher’s Corporation Forms
Annotated
• Washington Specific: Washington Business
Entities: Laws & Forms (2005)
• WA Secretary of State: www.secstate.wa.gov
Licensing
• WA Department of Licensing
www.dol.wa.gov
Finances
Sales: UCC Article 2
Payments: UCC Articles 3 & 4
Letters of Credit: UCC Article 5
Security Interest: UCC Article 9
• Anderson on the Uniform Commercial Code
• Department of Licensing has a financing
statement. www.dol.wa.gov
Lease Office Space
• Washington Real Property Deskbook
• General Formbooks:
AmJur Legal Forms
West’s Legal Forms
Nichols Cyclopedia of Forms
Contracts
• Drafting Effective Contracts
• Williston on Contracts: Forms
Employment Issues
• Washington Employment Law Deskbook
Taxation
• Federal taxes:
CCH Standard Federal Tax Reporter
BNA tax management portfolios
• State & Local taxes:
Washington State & Local Tax Deskbook
by WSBA
Intellectual Property
• Treatises: Nimmer on Copyright; McCarthy on
Trademarks and Unfair Competition; Chisum
on Patents
• United States Patent and Trademark Office
http://www.uspto.gov
Bankruptcy
• Collier on Bankruptcy and Norton Bankruptcy
Law and Practice
• United States Bankruptcy Courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/bankruptcycourts.html
Family Law
• Washington Family Law Deskbook
• Washington Practice volumes on Family &
Community Property Law with Forms
• Mandatory Domestic Relations Forms
www.courts.wa.gov/forms
Estate Planning & Will Drafting
• Washington Estate Planning Deskbook
• Washington Probate Deskbook
• Washington Law of Wills and Intestate
Succession (2005)
Recap Practice Materials
Old Stand Bys
• Federal: Wright and Miller Federal Practice
and Procedure
• Washington: Washington Practice
For Everything Else
• Check with to see if there is a subject specific
practice set