Categories : Law Practice Management
What To Do When: Opposing Counsel Doesn’t Return Your Calls
A few years ago, opposing counsel disappeared shortly after our case was taken off calendar...
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How to Find Your Next Client
Finding clients has become more competitive and challenging, yet paradoxically more accessible as society moves toward an on-demand, 24/7 economy.
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Protecting Privilege in a Cyber Breach Incident Response
It is critical to understand and properly address attorney-client privilege and attorney work product during the course of an incident response
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Representing a Client Adverse to a Lawyer’s Own Former Employer
A potential client comes to a lawyer with a case against his or her former employer. The catch: the lawyer worked for the same company before passing the bar.
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Is AI the new ‘Snake Oil’?
We have all experienced AI in modern life: Netflix recommendations, Amazon’s and Spotify’s suggestions, and LinkedIn’s and Facebook’s prods. These may be recent, but AI has been around the legal world for a long while, in both legal research and electronic discovery.
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The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry v. California Guild (2019) 38 Cal.App.5th 706
Is a lawyer and his new firm subject to disqualification, notwithstanding the fact that the lawyer has been ethically screened since the date of hire, when the lawyer formerly represented a party in litigation and then joined a law firm representing an adverse party?
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What to do When Your Client Constantly Calls
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.
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Insurance Coverage Tips from a Young Lawyer and an Old(er) Lawyer
How do you get the information and expertise you need for your practice? Get comments and suggestions from two different perspectives.
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The Marketing Umbrella
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?
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Out of the Ordinary and Extraordinary Law Firm Marketing
In today’s ever-increasing digital age, law firm and attorney marketing has made some unique twists and turns.