How can I open a legal advice office from scratch

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How to open a legal consultation from scratch? It is not as difficult as it seems at first glance. You can start in this business without any investment, from scratch. This explains the presence of a large number of small businesses that provide legal services to the public on a paid basis. Consider how to do this and what difficulties you will face.

Starting a business

It is possible to open a legal business from scratch in the absence of an appropriate education. There is no need to have a diploma from any university that trains lawyers in order to provide legal services to the public on a paid basis. If you are literate in the field of law, you have come across this more than once, you had to conduct your own practice, then you can do it for money and without a diploma.

It so happens that people who are faced with some life situations, apply to the courts to resolve complex issues. Taking an active part in the trial, delving into the intricacies of the current legislation, such people can come to the conclusion that they understand it no worse than qualified lawyers.

For example, if a person went through a complex divorce process on his own or with a lawyer, and used the acquired skills to help acquaintances and friends who find themselves in a similar situation, then he can help others in this matter as well. It is practice that makes a real qualified lawyer, and not diplomas of different colors and shapes.

And if there is no such experience, then this is not a reason to put an end to this project. There will always be those people who have both diplomas and some experience. Moreover, they are ready to work honestly and conscientiously for hire. Not everyone believes that individual entrepreneurship is simple and accessible to everyone. Strange as it may sound, there are many among lawyers for whom the idea of ​​starting their own business does not even lie in the plane of their dreams.

You must choose a specialization. The legal services market is saturated precisely because of the availability of this project. It is difficult to compete successfully in all areas of law. Choose one or more directions. If you have experience, as stated above, in divorce proceedings, you need to specialize in it.

The only thing that cannot be conducted without a diploma and a lawyer's certificate is criminal cases. Only the criminal process requires appropriate education and qualifications.

What needs to be done to open

How to open a legal office? The process of starting a legal consulting business is not only facilitated by the absence of the need to have an education. All that is needed for him is in any office that is easy to rent. This is a desk or computer desk, office chairs and armchairs. It is enough to bring your computer or laptop, a cell phone, a printer combined with a scanner, and paper with stationery. After that, it remains to order a sign on the office door with the inscription "Legal Advice".

But before you open such an office, you need to register as an individual entrepreneur. If you do not work anywhere, register as unemployed at the Employment Center and go through a simple procedure for obtaining a subsidy to start your business, prepare a business plan. The state supports the unemployed who start their own business. The minimum amount of subsidies is from 25 thousand rubles. This is enough to buy a laptop and a printer.

If you are going to hire staff, then you can provide that each employee already has his own laptop. You rarely meet a lawyer, a graduate of a university, who does not have his own laptop. Otherwise, you will have to include the costs in the business plan and increase the amount of the required subsidy. You can see a sample of how to prepare a business plan in Appendix No. 1.

Refusal to receive a subsidy is not a reason for frustration. Purchase several devices on credit or in installments. If you have any funds for the initial start, buy used laptops. They will cost 8 thousand rubles each. Thus, to open an office for 3-4 jobs, you will have to spend about 30 thousand rubles.

This is the bare minimum, but there are also small legal advice businesses that operate without an office at all, using rooms in business centers to meet with clients. This approach requires good self-confidence in yourself and your professional abilities. There is some sense in this.

An enterprise located in the office with a sign at the entrance is capable of attracting some customers by itself. But the rent of such offices is high, and all such places are already occupied. Renting a room in a multi-storey business center does not provide such advantages. You still have to get involved in the active promotion of the services provided, encouraging potential customers to make at least one call. But where to receive this call - at home or in the office - does not matter. Just make sure that when answering the call, the background for the client is not a child's scream or cry, dog barking or cat meowing.

What difficulties await

The main difficulties that you will definitely have to face when opening a legal business are as follows:

• very high competition;
• it is very difficult to provide the enterprise with a permanent and solvent clientele;
• dishonesty of the staff.

Many citizens consider themselves unsurpassed lawyers, therefore they consider it necessary for themselves to work in this niche. And since there are no legal offices for everyone, the remaining applicants open their own consultations. Add to this a very low start in this business, and here comes the formula for high competition, which does not decrease.

The next difficulty follows from this - it is very difficult to find customers. Those that come across are either offering to take on bad cases that other lawyers have turned down, or don't have enough money to pay the due cost of such cases. Do not rush to refuse such cases. Perhaps they are the ticket to the Olympus of the legal business. If word gets around the city that a new office has opened that provides half-price services to the poor and takes on hopeless cases, successfully wins them, there will be no end to the customers and the staff will have to be increased. Take note of this.

They learn about the dishonesty of employees when they leave the office, taking with them about a dozen regular good customers.

To prevent such a development of events, the business owner needs to independently search for clients and build relationships with them.

The client must understand that he is addressing the manager, and his employee only helps in this matter, performing routine work.

But the employee must also understand that clients do not come to him on their own, that this process is complex, time-consuming, requires certain investments and developments. And if their office leaves, he will have to solve this issue on his own, which will be more difficult than the process of providing services.

How best to promote services

Having a sign doesn't mean a flood of customers, and a newspaper ad won't make things better. It already worked poorly 10 years ago, and now it is completely inefficient. Focus your efforts on the following:

• creation of a website for legal advice;
• regular publication of valuable legal advice;
• duplication of publications on the company's page in the social network;
• recruitment of subscribers through contextual and targeting advertising;
• creating a legal literacy mailing list for subscribers;
• conducting online seminars and consultations;
• cold calls to potential clients.

Such promotion must contain the business plan of the project, and they will have to be dealt with before opening a legal office in order to successfully start.

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