What practice management and well-being resources does MOBAR offer lawyers?

The Missouri Bar (mobar.org) organizes practice management support around the full life cycle of a law practice—opening, building, managing, protecting, and winding down—and pairs it with a formal well-being program. Most of these resources are reached through the "Lawyer Resources" and "Member Benefits" areas of the site, and several require signing in to the member portal. The sections below describe what exists and how to get to it.

Practice management: organized by stage of practice

MOBAR's Practice Management section is grouped into five stages rather than presented as one undifferentiated library:

• Open a Practice — startup-oriented guidance for lawyers establishing a new practice.
• Build a Practice — client development and growth topics.
• Manage a Practice — day-to-day operations.
• Protect a Practice — risk and security topics.
• Wind Down a Practice — closing or transitioning a practice.

Alongside these stages, the site lists Ask an Expert, Checklists & Charts, White Papers, and a Practice Resource Library. The stage structure is the useful part: if you are starting out, "Open a Practice" is the entry point; if you are closing a solo practice, "Wind Down a Practice" is where to look rather than the general library.

Tools and member benefits

• Fastcase legal research access, reached through the member portal.
• No-cost trust accounting and billing software — the site states The Missouri Bar is partnering with Smokeball to offer this to all Missouri lawyers; the trust accounting and billing software is described as no-cost.
• Lawyer Directory and LawyerSearch for locating attorneys.
• MAI & MACH Search.
• connect.MOBAR, described as a member community.
• Jobs for Missouri Lawyers.
• Remote Public Access | Redaction Center.

Access to portal items such as Fastcase, My MCLE, and My Fees begins with SIGN IN. The site does not state that these member tools are open to the general public, so treat sign-in as the expected gate.

Well-being and lawyer assistance

MOBAR maintains a dedicated well-being structure rather than a single page:

• Lawyers' Assistance Program (MOLAP) — the bar's lawyer assistance program.
• Standing Committee on Well-Being in the Profession.
• Lawyers' Assistance and Well-being Committee.
• Well-being Articles — a running collection of written material on the topic.

If your concern is personal or impairment-related, MOLAP is the named program. If you want the policy or committee side, the standing committee and the well-being committee are the relevant bodies. The well-being articles are the lowest-barrier starting point because they do not require a program referral.

Dispute resolution and ethics guidance

Two adjacent areas matter for practice management decisions:

• Dispute Resolution — listed under Lawyer Resources, with a separate Rule 17: Alternative Dispute Resolution resource and a Sign up for Neutrals List option.
• Legal Ethics Opinions — the bar's published ethics opinions, useful when a management decision (fees, trust accounts, client files) has an ethics dimension.

Education and compliance tie-ins

Practice management does not sit apart from CLE obligations:

• MCLE Compliance — MCLE Home, Report My MCLE, Program Sponsors, and FAQ.
• MoBarCLE — calendar, Elimination of Bias, Ethics, Annual Law Update, Advanced CLE, onsite programs and conferences, webcasts/webinars, and deskbooks/guidebooks.
• Additional resources — Rule 6.06 (return to active status), Rule 8.10 (admission without examination), and Rule 8.105 (limited admission for in-house counsel).

For a lawyer returning to active status or moving in-house, the rule-specific pages are more directly relevant than the general practice management stages.

How to decide where to start

Practical notes

• The site's news item "Missouri Bar elects 2026-2027 officers" reports that Jennifer M. Crompton, of St. Louis, was sworn in as new Missouri Bar president, and the site promotes a virtual Annual Meeting on Oct. 5–9 with mid-day time blocks. Both are examples of time-bound programming rather than standing resources.
• The page evidence does not list prices for member benefits beyond the no-cost software and Fastcase references, and does not state whether any listed item is restricted by membership category. Confirm eligibility after signing in rather than assuming open access.
• Because the practice management content is stage-based, the fastest route is to pick your stage first, then use Ask an Expert or the resource library for specifics—rather than browsing the full library linearly.