Texas Small-Firm Practice Tools

by Cindy Stormer

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Over 560 forms for 16 practice areas, with step-by-step procedures, voice-of-experience tips, answers to common questions, mistakes to avoid, tax considerations, and practice checklists.

  • 2 volumes, full-text, searchable CD
  • ISBN: 1-58012-113-6
Price: $99

Texas Legal Checklists

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 Over 560 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:

  • Client Intake – Debts. Form 7:10
  • Contract for Employment – Collections/Contingency. Form 7:20
  • Acknowledgment of Claim. Form 7:30
  • Unfair Debt Collection Practices Letter. Form 7:40
  • Collections Letter. Form 7:50
  • Abstract of Judgment. Form 7:60
  • Letter to Client Post-Judgment. Form 7:70
  • Application for Writ of Garnishment after Judgment. Form 7:80
  • Writ of Garnishment Affidavit. Form 7:90
  • Writ of Garnishment. Form 7:100
  • Garnishment Notice. Form 7:110
  • Agreed Judgment on Garnishment. Form 7:120
  • Garnishee’s Answer. Form 7:310
  • Writ of Garnishment Judgment. Form 7:140
  • Writ of Execution Letter to Clerk. Form 7:150
  • Writ of Execution Letter to Sheriff or Constable. Form 7:160
  • Request for Production – Collections. Form 7:170
  • Turnover Application. Form 7:180
  • Turnover Order. Form 7:190
  • Application for Receiver. Form 7:200
  • Receiver Order. Form 7:210
  • Oath of Receiver. Form 7:220
  • Receivership Final Order. Form 7:230
  • Procedures Checklist – Collections. Form 7:240

Texas Small-Firm Practice Tools
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