Sentences with phrase «practice like lawyers»

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Many practitioners like doctors, financial advisors, lawyers and CPAs have ready - made buyers in their practice by having interns or the like who are being mentored and trained to be professionals.

Students have long tended to live on a campus while at university, and continuing this practice reassures parents and kids that they are getting their money's worth, just like people visiting lawyer's offices may be reassured by walls lined with leather - bound law books.

Even in the case of professions like law or medicine, which require graduate degrees to practice, not all lawyers and doctors picked the stereotypical political science and biology majors for their undergraduate studies.

Leaders who leave the school — like doctors or lawyers who leave their practices for a rival firm — will take many of their contacts and relationships with them; the new leader will have to reassemble the network of relationships that the school needs to be successful.

About the author: Like her main character, La Seur is a lawyer who left her home state of Montana to practice in the big city.

Like most professions, there is a financial incentive for lawyers to spend a few years practicing in public service or government offices in order to have some portion of their law school loan forgiven.

CD Projekt isn't the only company to have sent these shakedown letters via its lawyers, with others fingered by torrentfreak.com back in 2012 including Koch, Codemasters, EIDOS, Ubisoft and Kalypso, though it was one of the more ironic, after having made a big deal out of actively avoiding standard industry practices like DRM.

And the Hollywood lawyers also practice in areas like DUI, divorce or plaintiff - side discrimination, traditionally regarded as «pedestrian» by the biglaw crowd.

After all, as most solo practitioners can attest, running a solo practice is about much more than lawyering; it's about running a business, like any other.

I suppose one might want to distinguish for some of them the lawyer who has a generally accessible online presence (like a web site) and who accepts clients by electronic communications from anywhere, compared to a lawyer who targets a particular jurisdiction other than the one in which he or she is formally admitted to practice.

Like most states, in Michigan (where I'm licensed, but not currently practicing), pursuant to the Michigan Constitution, the Michigan Supreme Court has exclusive authority over the regulation of lawyers and the practice of law.

I'd like to see every practicing lawyer required to publicly divulge what they charge per hour.

Feldman doesn't like that lawyers choose which classes to attend based on which of the three types of credits — Ethics and Professionalism, Law Practice Management, or Areas of Professional Practice — they're short of, or that lawyers don't pay a whole lot of attention when attending programs.

As it turned out I moved to New York from California for my first job as a lawyer and I discovered that even though I could still go on that path I actually really liked practicing law.

As a coach for lawyers with busy legal practices most of my time is spent in meetings and about 10 % of those meetings get rescheduled on short notice to accommodate my clients» closings, trial dates and the like.

I can see where many lawyers can get burned out or just do not like the practice of law in the private sector, but for me it has been a natural transition.

Lawyers can not use cloud - based practice management systems like Clio, Rocket Matter and MyCase.

Try also to avoid the common badges of lawyer greed like dubious billing practices - the kind of stuff that can get your firm a real bad name if it leaks to the press, as per David Giacalone at f / k / a.

Instead, the better practice is for the lawyer to follow up personally with the contact, and ask him or her in passing whether they'd like to be signed up for the firm's email alerts in an area of interest (e.g., if the contact is general counsel at a hospital, maybe they'd be interested in receiving the firm's healthcare alerts).

If you are serious about preparing your practice for the next ten years, join a select group of ahead - of - the - curve lawyers like you who will reimagine the practice of law, rethink the way lawyers and clients work together, and retool their law - firm business models for the next decade — and demonstrate that innovative lawyer isn't an oxymoron.

If you're a bootstrapping entrepreneurial lawyer like me who is thinking about starting a solo practice, what to do about your first office location is probably on your mind.

Over the last two years the site has produced many excellent downloads above and beyond the blog (like A Field Guide for Mobile Lawyers, Top iPhone and iPad Apps for Lawyers, and 101 Really Good Ideas for You and Your Law Practice).

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.

Getting referrals from other lawyers can be difficult: sometimes our practice areas overlap, sometimes we're intimidated to ask for referrals from like professionals.

As a result, Phillips found herself drawn to collaborative practice (CP) and sought to work with like - minded family practice lawyers.

Although your professional plate probably is more than full with the practice of law and business development activities, it's a wise investment of your time to learn to think like a businessperson as well as like a lawyer.

He helps lawyers find ways to market their law practice while doing things they already like doing.

Litigator and legal industry pioneer Chad Burton, who serves on ABA Law Practice Division's Council, is chair of the Division's Futures Initiative, and is on the governing board for the new ABA Center for Innovation, explains how the ABA and other like - minded organizations and individuals are engaged in initiatives to help lawyers run better practices and improve the legal profession.

Competing against lawyers who haven't adopted Cloud practice software like Clio are falling behind the tech curve.

Like the three reports discussed above, and, in fact, drawing heavily on those reports, the curricular change literature generally takes the position that the case - dialogue method of pedagogy does not sufficiently prepare law students to become practicing lawyers.74 While students learn basic case analysis skills through this method, they are usually not explicitly taught how to integrate those skills into a larger set of lawyering skills, in particular those identified as fundamental in the MacCrate Report.75 Further, while reading and analyzing cases, the focus of most law school classes, are important lawyering skills, they represent only a small portion of what lawyers actually do.76 Consequently, these commentators advocate for teaching legal skills as they are used in their real - world context, not merely as abstract ideas, and for integrating theoretical analysis and practical skills.77

One other housekeeping matter, I guess, before we finish today's show, but it's housekeeping we like to do, which is to thank our sponsor Clio, the online practice management program for lawyers.

Nigel then told me that in all his years of practice, this particular lawyer had never done anything remotely like that, and really, this lawyer wasn't one to give anyone praise, let alone go out of his way to do so.

Whenever they're presented with a new, cutting - edge concept in marketing, many lawyers respond with what seems to be a reasonable objection: «The people in my town aren't like that; my practice is different, so your techniques won't work.»

And, this week I'd like to showcase how a few other lawyers have used social media effectively, including: 1) how a law student created a name for himself online and continues to do so as he builds a solo practice from the ground up, 2) how one personal injury attorney successfully created a blog that stands out from the crowd, and 3) how a BigLaw attorney has created a very successful niche using social media.

I heard from attending and speaking at events like Legaltech Week that lawyers were tired of the hype behind AI and wanted concrete examples of AI in practice — which was a challenge I'll admit I gladly encouraged our engineers to take on!

Today, firms like ours offer lawyers other ways of practicing.

«The concept appeals to firms that want to position themselves to capture a generation coming up that will only want to deal with lawyers over the Internet,» Richard Granat says,» For the general practice law firm in areas like family law these concepts will mainstream.»

Kevin O'Keefe: In essence it helps lawyers do a type of work they want to do for the type of clients they would like to do it for, and the Internet is a powerful tool in order to get that work, because the best lawyers I've been aware for 35 years practice or 17 and the best work comes by relationships and word - of - mouth, it doesn't come from advertising or pushing your message out and the feeling on most lawyers» part in most legal marketers» part is that they are talking about getting attention and that goes back to the days of Billboards, TV ads, yellow pages that type of thing, which is okay, which you may not have to resort to that or to fall to that, with the advent of the Internet.

An agency like Network Affiliates that specifically handles digital marketing for lawyers can walk you through each one to help you select the best platform for your practice's particular needs and aspirations.

Consider having non-lawyers run your practice groups, as they don't think like lawyers.

Brandon's experience as a plaintiff's personal injury lawyer specializing in serious accidents and defective drugs and products provides Lawcompany's clients with the unique advantage of having a marketing company that knows what it's like to practice law.

Similarly when new lawyers join, we don't place them into a practice group so they must decide «who do I like working with?

That like IT, legal ops is something that is subservient to lawyers and is somehow less than the practice of law.

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.

When I said it didn't sound like the folks I spoke to had even heard of the site, he said his people also take data on practice areas from combing the Internet, such as lawyers» own Web sites and other lawyer - evaluation hubs like Avvo and Martindale.

This maybe goes hand - in - hand with what you're saying about the problem with mentorship, because while I do think that experienced lawyers have so much advice to give, I think that the world facing new lawyers and what their practices are going to look like are quite different than what those more experienced lawyers, what their trajectory their career has taken.

Total Attorneys Inc., a Chicago - based company that provides services like office management and business development for solo and small firm lawyers, runs a number of practice - specific blogs — from lemon law to DUI.

But like an expert orator or skilled artist, lawyers must practice and refine their craft.

We talked to Andy Haugen a little while back about how he likes to say yes, and it led to some really great opportunities for his practice, but I also feel like saying no is one of the most important skills that a lawyer, anybody in business, but a lawyer can have.

So many lawyers think they need practice management software and go shopping for it when they don't have a clear idea of what need they will be meeting with it and that becomes a problem when like if you're an Outlook user, maybe that meets your needs and you don't need to be looking at practice management software.