Texas Small-Firm Practice Tools

Pilots and accountants have long relied on checklists to avoid omissions. Your legal work deserves the same care, especially if you handle a variety of practice areas.

Bring order and method to your practice, tackle new areas with confidence, and avoid omissions and wasted effort with the task checklists in Cindy Stormer’s Small-Firm Practice Tools.

These checklists break big jobs like probating a will, filing a divorce, forming a corporation, preparing for trial, and dozens more into manageable tasks. You receive:

Civil litigation checklists

Preparing pleadings. §4:70
Office procedures for discovery. §1:470
Grounds for objecting to interrogatories and requests for admissions. §1:550
Preparing and challenging objections to discovery. §1:560

Car accident checklists

Questions to ask potential clients at the initial interview. Forms 2:20-30
Office procedures. §2:290
Evaluation of case, plaintiff’s §2:300, defendant’s §2:310
Recording a witness statement. §2:400
Deposition questions. §2:470
Jury charge questions. §2:480
Voir dire questions. §2:490
Examination questions for plaintiff, doctors, and defendant. §2:500

Business checklists

Before filing suit in employee/employer dispute. §6:120
Collections procedure. §7:240
Organizing a business. Form 8:130
Buying or selling a business. Form 9:120

Divorce checklists

Telephone intake. Form 10:10
Questions to ask potential clients at the initial interview. Forms 10:20-30
Marriage dissolution checklist. Form 10:90
Calculating child support. Form 10:220
Inventory and appraisement. Form 10:240
Custody. Form 10:420
Transfer of Automobiles and Mobile Homes. Form 10:290
Final Hearing Prove-up. Form 10:310

Estate checklists

Will intake. Form 11:20
Execution of wills. Form 11:50
Trusts interview. Form 11:210
Probate client intake. Forms 12:10 and 12:20
Analyzing the type of probate procedure. Form 12:30
Heirship questionnaire. Form 12:40
Procedure for affidavit of heirship. Form 12:60
Office procedures for muniment of title. Form 12:140
Independent administration office procedures. Form 12:340
Procedures for dependent administration interrogatories. Form 12:740

Criminal checklists

DUI intake questionnaire. Form 14:10
Voir dire. Form 14:120
DUI expert questions. Form 15:200
Occupational license procedures. Form 14:170
Script for writ of habeas corpus proceeding. Form 15:170
Traffic ticket procedure. Form 15:240
Hearing on speedy trial motions. Form 15:260

Real estate checklists

Intake questionnaire. Form 16:10
Foreclosure procedure. Form 16:210
Adverse possession script. Form 16:320
Settlement statement procedures. Form 16:360

And 536 Texas Forms

Each of the 16 practice areas in Cindy Stormer’s Small-Firm Practice Tools is supported with a: (1) summary of the essential law and procedures, and (2) collection of custom-drafted, time-tested forms in both print and on CD. For example, here are the 24 forms found in the Credit and Collections chapter:

Collections forms