If everyone could do it, there would be
a lot of better lawyers,» one former district court clerk told us.
Not exact matches
Let's face it, there are a
lot of lawyers out there, and competition for
good clients has become very difficult.
If you plan to raise money for your business through crowdfunding, get ready to spend
lots of quality time with a
good lawyer.
General News
of Thursday, 17 May 2018 Source: classfmonline.com Anas Aremeyaw Anas, investigative journalist A
well - known
lawyer tried bribing investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas to edit out the a scandalous findings against «a man» in the yet - to - be premiered Number 12 undercover documentary, which will expose a
lot of rot at the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Editor - in - Chief
of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul - Malik Kweku Baako Jr., has revealed.
It's a
lot of skill and talent expended on a spat a
good lawyer could probably have sorted out during the opening credit sequence.
It looks and sounds
better than the series ever has, it smooths out a
lot of the rough edges from previous games and makes it a
lot easier to play, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't excited, as a longtime fan, to see Phoenix Wright put on his
lawyer's badge again.
That's not great for either party, but a
lot worse for the individual who can't afford a team
of well paid corporate
lawyers.
Data Guy had
better have a
lot of money in the bank, and a whole fleet
of lawyers on retainer.
Mary Juetten:
Well, the way that I approached it is this — This is my accounting background — from a framework perspective and mapping that over a
lot of the
lawyers that I spoke with.
And, it can shorten the training
of new
lawyers and other personnel, as
well as save a
lot of money when drafting similar texts, such as legal opinions and pleadings.
So before you partner up, you might want to spend a
lot of time together to see if you have similar notions
of how
good lawyers think, look, talk, and act.
F. Lee Bailey (yes, he
of O.J. Simpson trial fame, among many others) is perhaps the
best example
of a
lawyer who spent a
lot of time just Being Bailey and not enough time on managing his practice.
It would save
lawyers a
lot of money, and because
of the high degree
of specialization
of its staff and all other factors
of production, for most cases, it would do it
better.
And so there's a long story behind having an office there, but one
of our
lawyers lives there and we decided that that was a
good place, there was a
lot of litigation down in that part
of the state.
In communities like San Jose, Palo Alto and Mountain View, there are
lots of attorneys serving the most the common practice areas, as
well as numerous
lawyers that specialize in areas that serve the tech giants and other area technology companies.
A
lawyer website can look amazing and draw a
lot of visitors, but won't be
of any
good if it doesn't bring tangible business through the door.
article) I was also pondering the comment
of a
good friend
of mine, a senior equity partner at one
of the major City firms, who admitted to me last week that
lawyers in the City «are earning more money than we ever thought possible when we started in law», adding wryly «and quite a
lot of us don't really believe we're worth it».
The commentary has generated a
lot of interest, especially among California medical malpractice
lawyers as
well as the medical community that stringently works towards diagnosing and over treating even the most minor conditions that pose no threat to patients.
It is a
good career choice and a
lot of people are trying to become
lawyers.
This organisation provides a
lot of information about this ever - changing area, as
well as fun seminars where aspiring
lawyers can trial new technologies.
Although
better than the scorched earth attorney, these divorce
lawyers may leave you exposed to a
lot of risks if they are not diligently protecting your interests.
But, if you're looking for strategic advice regarding online marketing, it's probably
better to work with someone who has
lots of experience with
lawyers.
Nevertheless, CheckRecipient will probably make a
lot of lawyers sleep
better at night knowing they have not accidentally sent a client's merger documents to the wrong person.
But we thought we'd take a little bit
of a break from that and talk more about its purpose and why we built it, which is that in law practice and small firm law practice if you are a creative business person or an innovator or tech oriented or trying to think up ways to
better serve clients that haven't been tried before, we've found that that can be really isolating and that there can often be a
lot of active resistance from other
lawyers, from bar associations, from regulators, and that it can just be a really strange experience to be someone trying to make your business
better, make the world
better, and to feel alone or to feel like people are actively trying to stop you from doing that.
Sam Glover: Yeah, and I suppose
lots of lawyers try to be the first referral that their friends give out by word
of mouth, or that their former clients do, but you may have actually cemented your place as a firm that people try to find excuses to refer people to because you've made a difference or you've done something
good that has influenced them, and that's even potentially more priceless.
It is a
lot easier to write a blog for a
well - defined group
of people than it is to write a blog for a
well - defined group
of people who also happen to be looking for a
lawyer at that particular moment.
If each solo attorney is going to wholly own her own practice, then it requires a
lot of thought around what resources to share and which ones to keep separate... Sharing resources isn't easy, but if the
lawyers approach it with a belief that more can be done together than apart, that there is an abundance
of resources and clients, and have a clear conflict resolution mechanism — then the effort is
well worth it.»
«Halifax has a
lot of really
good lawyers, it has a wonderful quality
of life, it has terrific universities,» he says.
Lawyer Coach Why
Lawyers MUST Get Their Heads Out of the Sand about Social Media September 7 by Debra L. Bruce «The mushrooming popularity of social media creates novel legal issues to be resolved, as well as a lot of opportunities for mistakes by lawyers and their c
Lawyers MUST Get Their Heads Out
of the Sand about Social Media September 7 by Debra L. Bruce «The mushrooming popularity
of social media creates novel legal issues to be resolved, as
well as a
lot of opportunities for mistakes by
lawyers and their c
lawyers and their clients.
But you know, there are a
lot of substitutes for
better service that are easier for
lawyers to provide — discounted rates, for instance, or great seats at the local team's home opener, or what have you.
Lots of lawyers think that
well the real value that we have that nobody can get from online forms is the relationship with clients, but the relationship in most cases is they've been to your conference room twice and they were annoyed by how hard it was to find parking and they couldn't find your office in the building, that's not loyalty.
It's not immediately clear to me why a judge on the New York City Civil Court, Housing Part, would be a particular expert on e-mail etiquette for
lawyers, but I thought there were a
lot of good points in Judge Lebovits» article — which originally appeared in the New York State Bar Association Journal — particularly the reminders on the absence
of «tone» and on the need for brevity.
For
lawyers, especially those in cities with a
lot of competition, working with ARAG can be a
good way to get new clients.
The
best route for a poor writer (and I'm sorry to have to say this, but an awful
lot of lawyers struggle to even write passably — another abject failure
of law schools and bar examiners, for passing these poor souls) is to take an introductory composition class that will give one the ability to parse sentences so as to know if they are grammatically correct.
My legal dream sailed from Peking University, so every time I go back to give a speech at the Law School
of Peking University, I would feel a
lot of gratitude, warmth and desire to assist or share my understanding
of a career as a
lawyer, and how to become a
good lawyer, especially a non-litigating
lawyer, with the students who want to be a
lawyer in the future, so that I can do my part to improve the transparency, publicity and fairness
of the Chinese capital market.
With
good lawyering and hard work being assumed,
lots of intangibles and some business generation is
better than some intangibles and some business origination, which in turn is
better than some intangibles and no business origination, which in turn is
better than few intangibles and no business origination, etc.,
Fortunately we know many
good Illinois
lawyers with a
lot of experience defending federal charges, including many attorneys that used to work for the Department
of Justice and now are in private law practice in Illinois.
Sam Glover: Drinking from the fire hose is something that
lots of lawyers do, or constantly running around like your hairs on fire, putting out fires, and they never stop to think okay how can I improve this, how can I make this
better?
Lawyers want to help and take care
of others - that's why they get into the profession, but a
lot of them, and even law students, don't take care
of themselves
well enough.
Again, there will be a
lot of lawyers I'm sure say, «
Well, I don't care.
Most people in the purportedly shrinking middle class who can afford to drop $ 1500 or more up - front to get a
lawyer to start work on a typical case are probably smart enough to understand that there are
lots of people out there who know a
lot about a particular area
of law and could offer
good advice without the benefit
of a law degree.
Blogs have
lots of good info, but I assume that only 0.1 %
of Canadian
lawyers read any given post.
When you look at your own firm, I think a
lot of lawyers aren't doing management and aren't taking it seriously and maybe for 2017 now that we're a couple weeks in, that's a
good thing to do is pick up a book about managing people and just try and learn that craft and get
better at it.
That's why too many small firms aren't run as great businesses because business skills aren't something that
lots of lawyers grew up understanding and it doesn't feel natural, and therefore, if I'm just going to do things that feel
good and feel natural, then growing a successful business often isn't a priority.
Another example
of that would be maybe something like what's the
best business form for a new startup and
lots of lawyers websites have that in text, like they have an article about it, but I'm thinking maybe you could actually start someone on the process
of answering the questions that you'd ask at your first meeting with them through your website so that the bar is lower to get them in the door because that's kind
of what this is all about, is making it easier for people to have that first meeting with you because they're not actually meeting with you.
And there are a
lot of them and who
better to identify when you can't solve it in a brief time than a
lawyer who can figure it out.
She posts photos
of herself riding subways with no pants on, which doesn't necessarily have to be everybody's brand, but the point is
well taken that... The thing is
lots of lawyers are afraid to express a personality and soulless personality, less beige
lawyer law firm websites are a penny a million.
No doubt most
lawyers have given some thought to the horrifyingly bad trailer that has resulted in several deaths and a
lot of demonstrations, as
well as the confusing dispatches from everyone about whether people ought to be allowed to post this sort
of thing to YouTube.
I'm sitting here thinking that ignores the other
lawyers who might be half as
good as you, have funneled in a
lot of money to advertising dollars to be at the top Google search whenever somebody says, «Criminal defense attorney, Fort Worth.»
Brad Clark:
Well, a
lot of our business is expungement, which are people that have been out
of jail, have been out
of trouble for five to 10 plus years and so that doesn't apply to that but then as far as like DUIs, there will be some people that do call
lawyers that night, you are provided time to call a
lawyer when you are arrested for DUI but then there are a
lot of people that they bond out the next morning and they're depressed and they're sitting on their couch and they're trying to research things online and that's when the marketing happens, that's when the connection happens, and the client contacts you.