This Just In: How to Build a Real Estate Law Practice

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If you’re a fan of HGTV, then maybe a career in real estate law is right for you. A new book from the Section of Real Property, Trust & Estate Law of the ABA can give you some good ideas. How to Build a Real Estate Law Practice by Dean Alterman covers the basics of setting up your office space, staffing, finding clients, managing workload, and growing your practice. Also included are sample engagement and disengagement letters, and new business forms. And in case you think that practicing real estate law might be dull, the author recounts that he has “walked through farms, looked at ditches, climbed on roofs, slid through crawlspaces, ridden in ancient freight elevators, built restaurants, refinanced hotels, leased a baseball stadium, and discovered buried survey markers.”

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