Tools for Successfully Setting Up and Running Your Own Firm
Date: Aug 13, 2026 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Online
Member Price: $159.00
Non-Member Price: $199.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: Solo & Small Firm
Earn up to 2.4 credits! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
- Monique Moreira, Esq.
- Certified By the Supreme Court of New Jersey As a Civil Trial Attorney
Moreira Sayles Ramirez LLC - Sarabraj S. Thapar, Esq.
- Certified By the New Jersey Supreme Court As a Civil Trial Attorney
Sabbagh Thapar
Presenters
- Trevor Anderson, Esq.
- The Anderson Firm PC, Jersey City
- Christopher J. Keating, Esq.
- Keating Law Firm, LLC, Moorestown
- Stephanie Lomurro, Esq.
- Manzi Epstein Lomurro & DeCataldo, LLC, West Orangeis Managing Partner of Manzi Epstein Lomurro & DeCataldo, LLC in Montclair, New Jersey, where she concentrates her practice in family law and is also a R. 1:40 Mediator.
Admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, Ms. Lomurro is a member of the New Jersey State, Essex County, Hudson County and Union County Bar Associations, and has been a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Family Law Executive Committee, where she is a former Co-Chair of the Young Lawyers Subcommittee. She has been a Trustee of the Hudson County Bar Association and an Early Settlement Panelist in Hudson and Union Counties. A member of the District IV (Hudson County) Ethics Committee, she is a Trustee of CASA of New Jersey and an Associate Editor of The New Jersey Family Lawyer (published by the New Jersey State Bar Association).
Co-author of Litigation Technology for the Modern Practitioner, Ms. Lomurro has lectured for ICLE, the Justice Virginia Long Family Law American Inn of Court and the New Jersey Association for Justice. She has also completed the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Family Law Trial Advocacy Program and was a member of the inaugural class of the New Jersey State Bar Association Leadership Academy.
Ms. Lomurro received her B.A. from Drew University and her J.D. from New York Law School. She was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Sallyanne Floria, Assignment Judge, Superior Court of New Jersey, Essex County (now retired).
(8/23) - Ryann Siclari, Esq., CELA
- Siclari Legal, LLC, ClintonCertified as an Elder Law Attorney by the ABA-accredited National Elder Law Foundation, is counsel to Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C. in Morristown, New Jersey, where she concentrates her practice primarily in elder and disability law, including long-term care, government benefits planning and advocacy, estate and trust administration, and estate planning. She counsels the aging and disabled or their families regarding the goals of having sufficient health care coverage, the ability to age in place and preserving assets against possible long-term care costs.
Admitted to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Ms. Siclari is also a Veterans Administration Accredited Attorney. She is Past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Elder Law Section, where she has also served as Roundtable and Legislative Coordinator, and is a former Trustee of the New Jersey Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA). She has lectured on elder law topics to attorneys and community organizations.
Ms. Siclari received her B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Widener University School of Law, where she was Styles Editor of The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law and the recipient of the Dean’s and Outstanding Service Awards. She received her LL.M. in Elder Law, with Distinction, from Stetson University College of Law.
(9/23)
Many New Jersey lawyers want to start their own firms, but don’t know how to get started. Even if they can “hang their shingle,” they worry about how to maintain the practice, pay the bills and grow it into a sustainable business.
Join a panel of attorneys from different practice areas who have successfully started their own law firms as they provide essential steps for setting up and running your own. This esteemed panel will discuss: how to set up a law firm, run a law firm, navigate tricky human resource issues, grow the business and ethical guidelines to follow.
Topics include:
- Law firm setup
- What you need, what is optional, and what you don’t need
- Essential software
- How to hire staff
- Malpractice and cybersecurity insurance
- Retainer agreements
- What to charge
- Fee agreements – pros and cons of flat fees, contingent fees and less
- Conventional billing arrangements
- Attorney trust accounting essentials to keep you out of ethics trouble
- Hidden or often unthought-of expenses - Running a firm
- Billing arrangements – what should a bill look like, and how to bill in a way that gives you the best possible chance for getting paid
- Calendaring systems so you don’t miss deadlines
- Website do’s and don’ts - Hiring and managing staff: what you should know from day one
- How to grow
- Essential tips for getting business
- Importance of joining bar associations
- Stay with a particular practice area or branch out?
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