As a bankruptcy attorney, my firm has seen an uptick in the number of anxious
calls from clients about repos, foreclosures and garnishments.
Not exact matches
After the travel ban was announced in January, Breslin says, TriNet fielded many
calls from clients concerned, for example,
about the fates of foreign - born employees temporarily outside the country.
Since the DOL announced it would not delay the Fiduciary Rule on May 22, we've received several
calls from anxious
clients unclear
about how the regulation affects their 401 (k) plan and / or fiduciary liability.
This preparation includes detailed instructions
about how to handle phone
calls and e-mails
from current and prospective
clients.
One day she got a phone
call from an unknown number; the person on the other end of the line had seen a blog post that a former
client had written
about Solomon's cooking and liked her style.
and when they
call us
from the hospital to set up their postpartum care I have 2 main things I warn them
about (based on hundreds of
clients struggling with these particular issues).
Danielle and I were just laughing because she sent me an email
from her
client (GoodNites)
about a free confidential conference
call about bedwetting they're sponsoring with an expert tomorrow (Thursday in North / South America) and then discovered that yesterday's post was
about bedwetting, and the reader even mentioned GoodNights.
The things she does for a
client are cook big meals (including some to freeze), cleaning bathrooms and kitchens and floors, doing laundry, addressing birth announcements, helping with simple breastfeeding problems (like positioning problems) and helping you decide if it's serious enough to
call the lactation consultant
about or if you can wait for the breastfeeding support group in a few days, holding the baby while you nap or take a shower, playing with older children, fielding phone
calls from family and friends, helping look up odd things in the baby book, dialing the pediatrician, and telling you you're doing a great job.
On his part lawyer for the accused Justice Sai complained
about the behavior of the Attorney General and the state security apparatus whom according to him have prevented him
from seeing his
client since his arrest till today when the case was
called.
Staff and
clients from The Fortune Society spoke
about how the stability of supportive housing can significantly help people reentering the community after incarceration, and
called on Gov. Cuomo to immediately release the promised funds.
Moreland Commission co-chair William Fitzpatrick, the Onondaga County DA,
called complaints
from the Legislature
about subpoenas for their outside income and
client lists «absurd.»
Lynly S. Egyes, an attorney at the Urban Justice Center and a member of the New York Anti-Trafficking Network, testified
about a
client she
called Alison who, before escaping
from traffickers, was given five condoms a day but expected to turn up to 25 tricks.
Learning Pool is talking to existing and potential
clients in financial services, retail and contact centres
about the use of Otto as a pure performance support tool for querying knowledge bases crafted
from inbound
call logs, compliance documents and other knowledge sources.
If you are a PR Firm, please don't
call this number — I would love to hear
from you, but an email with full details
about your product /
client would be preferable.
It even details how many
clients are sued by creditors during the settlement process and is honest
about the fact that
clients will continue to receive
calls from collectors.
But I'd rather I answered a hundred
calls from rescue groups
about a
client's record than you give a dog to some of the
clients who only come in when the dog is already sick and are then shocked to discover that they caught kennel cough at the groomer.
With the increased attention on the dog flu, we have been fielding
calls from clients who have questions
about the outbreak and have been concerned
about bringing their pets in for appointments at Veterinary Specialty Center.
We received a
call from a
client a few months ago that was very concerned
about his dog Scamp.
I'm all for
calling such loose - lipped attorneys out as being bad for
clients, for not exercising their obligation of loyalty to the fullest, etc., but should they be legally prohibited
from talking
about stuff that every other member of the public is free to discuss?
And the reaction
from clients has been positive; Cravath's head partner, Evan Chesler told American Lawyer that «I've got to tell you, and I don't want to name any names, but I have gotten
calls from a half dozen
clients this morning thanking me [
about cutting bonuses].»
Considering
about 70 % of Stem
clients originate
from south of the border, I'm going to
call it for what it is — a bit of a blunder on... more»
If it's only 8:56, there's ample time to make an important phone
call to get instructions
from a different
client (and ample time, during the meeting, to surreptitiously type notes
about that
call into her tablet).
Once upon a time, in the last millenium, soon after I was
called to the bar, a lawyer
from another country gave a speech, in Toronto,
about how litigation was conducted in his country and the key issues all counsel should address to present their
client's case, properly.
It was great to hear at
CALL about law librarians helping their ereader loving
clients with their recreational ebook reading (how to find content they want, borrow
from their public library, buy online, download to their devices).
Given how much I gripe
about the how bars penalize solos more harshly than Biglaw attorneys, I thought that I'd feel some sense of gratification when I read
about how a former Wilkie Farr partner has been suspended
from the practice of law for a year for billing
clients for $ 30,000 of personal long - distance
calls.
Jack Newton: So what they want, again, and I think it's a major departure
from what lawyers might think
clients really care
about, what topped out the list in terms of the most important things for consumers were being able to respond to the first
call or email right away.
If I offer a fixed - price «contested» divorce, for example, then the incentive for the
client is to make full - use of that pricing model and to regularly and repeatedly want to: 1) talk
about their case (i.e., their evil spouse's latest antics) on the phone or in - person; 2) file more motions to get their spouse to do something, to prevent their spouse
from doing something, or to object to something the court ruled; 3) send more «demand letters» or make more phone
calls to the opposing party or their attorney to tell them to return the car seat, or to complain that they dropped off the child 15 minutes late, etc; and 4) respond to ad hoc motions
from the other side (motions for attorney's fees, motions to compel discovery, motions for summary disposition, motions to enforce, etc).
Marc Mayerson of Insurance Scrawl blogs here
about a dilemma common to many insurance lawyers: Often policyholder counsel can be
called as witnesses in bad - faith insurance cases and can face disqualification
from representing their
clients at trial.
From a definition standpoint,
calling a fee «flat» merely says what the amount will be and says nothing
about when the
client is expected to pay, when the fee will be considered earned, and what portion (if any) the
client will get back if the
client is unhappy or just decides the lawyer is ugly.
Defence lawyer Joseph Neuberger, after an in - depth interview of the
client and two potential defence witnesses, sought disclosure
from the Crown of two 911
calls made by the
client around the dates of the alleged assaults including police records
about the
calls.
January 26, 2015 - Many of our
clients are
calling and writing
about «statements» and «invoices» they are receiving
from entities they've not dealt with directly (or at all) in the past.
So far BC Driving Lawyers has fielded
calls from across the province, ranging
from an Ontario - based trucking firm whose driver was stopped in northeastern B.C. for impaired driving to
clients inquiring
about unlawful search and seizures roadside.
What that means is a couple of different things, one is tracking all of your activities, tracking how people are getting either to your website or
calling you on the phone and where they came
from and there are different techniques for that,
call track numbers, asking people how they heard
about you, et cetera, and then tracking the conversion rate of those people contacting you on your website, on the phone to becoming
clients.
The news resonated with Blogger Norm Pattis, who
calls Horowitz a «defender's defender» and confesses that Pattis himself gets regular pings
from the FBI
about a disappointed former
client who «has made no secret of the fact he wants me dead.»
The international law firm of Reed Smith started receiving a ton of
calls a couple of weeks ago
from clients asking
about Ebola and protocol containing infectious diseases, according to The Washington Post.
Call us today to learn more
about how we fight for our
clients and their rights, so that they can move on
from the trauma suffered in a drunk driving accident.
Before MyCase, I used to constantly receive
calls and emails
from clients who had lost or deleted an email, an invoice, or simply wanted a reminder
about the next steps in their case.
Rather than tracking phone
calls from clients thumbing through the phone book, today it's all
about tracking leads and conversions through the internet.
Sharon D. Nelson: Well, interesting, you kind of answered my next question, so I think I'm going to reshape it a little bit because I do think a lot of lawyers are worried
about Artificial Intelligence replacing their jobs, and
from my own perspective, I think a certain amount of that fear is justified, but I do understand what you're saying and I've watched with considerable admiration as you've kind of turned your ship a little bit into a different harbor because originally it was
called ROSS: The Super-Intelligent Attorney, and now, you have more shaped ROSS
from the point of view of the lawyer as somebody that allows the lawyer to be more efficient, serve the
client better, and to focus on something other than what you might
call «the goat work» of the legal world, which we really don't want to do, and so how did you come to the realization that that was something that needed to be done?
After
about 6 months of blogging and continued effort to provide «value» on the blog (as opposed to news aggregation), we started receiving
calls from business
clients (some who were known prospects and others who I didn't know).
And the many
calls I get
from prospective
clients (almost all of whom I turn down — I run a pretty low volume practice) with whom I chat and advise
about their claims.
up to the cottage and never got past the doom and gloom to get to the cheerful bits
about how we will love greeting
clients from cubicles at legal
call - centres.
We get
calls every week
from potential
clients who have questions
about what they need to do if the other parent is not following the court order.
«After
about 6 months of blogging and continued effort to provide «value» on the blog (as opposed to news aggregation),» Ken says, «we started receiving
calls from business
clients (some who were known prospects and others who I didn't know).
Appleby says she is getting
calls from clients concerned
about how this will affect filling senior positions.
Calling alternative fees «ludicrous,» Luftspring said nowadays
clients are more concerned
about how much value they can get
from legal services so it's important that lawyers have that conversation with
clients at the outset.
Change the phrase to «
client service» and you'll hear
about how valuable
clients are and the lengths the firms go to solve
clients» problems and satisfy their needs; but ask firms to outline specific steps they take to ensure their
clients are happy with the service they receive, and you might hear
about «surveys» and «
calls from relationship partners» and other one - off measures.
I've had several
calls from agents since writing the article, all except one wanting to know more
about how I approached the senior life insurance market and how I could do as I claimed and in virtually every case provide the
clients with more insurance for the same money or the same insurance for less money.
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