While you want to be compassionate and allow your client to confide in you, you do not have time. You dread the conversations as they can last an hour, with many concerns you cannot fix.
By identifying where you are, where you’ve been and how you got there, your phone can also infer your needs — including your need for legal services.
Law students and new lawyers often have ideas of what they want to be: successful, rich, a change-maker, a trial lawyer, a teacher and so forth. In order to get there, I suggest you start here...
Jessica and Brett are starting practice together. Today, they will discuss potential billing models with a senior attorney, Macbeth.
Insurance defense counsel in a tripartite, dual-client relationship defense counsel must be especially alert for conflicts and potential conflicts.
Are you meeting your ethical obligation of supervision? Do the policies and procedures in your firm meet the requirements defined in the new California Rules of Professional Conduct? How does your firm ensure that new lawyers and nonlawyers comply with ethical standards?
How do you get the information and expertise you need for your practice? Get comments and suggestions from two different perspectives.
“Let’s talk about some key ethics principles for lawyers moving firms. Also some practical suggestions.”
A day may not be “a day” in the world of unlawful detainers.
How do we, as lawyers, get people to give us their hard-earned money in exchange for our time and advice, something that is valuable, but not always quantifiable?
