Law firm administrators manage the business
side of law practice.
Solid laterals, who are sometimes naïve to the business
side of a law practice, at least recognize that they have something to lose and appreciate what they need from a potential new firm to be successful.
CuroStudio's focus will be on products and services that increase access to justice, but that also extends to products that improve the business
side of law practice.
I agree there is huge applicability to the practice of law and also to the «admin»
side of law practice management (e.g., procedures for creating an extranet for a client, etc.).
Our goal at PRI is to assist Florida attorneys with running business
side of their law practices.
Not exact matches
So it is that «growing numbers
of people are abandoning religion in
practice; on every
side they influence literature, the arts, the interpretation
of the humanities and
of history and civil
laws themselves.
We developed books and curricula that rabbis and educators could use with their congregants to illuminate the «natural»
side of Jewish holidays, stories, ethics,
law, and
practices.
A few days after a state audit criticized a long - used Syracuse hiring
practice to get around civil service
laws, the Common Council probed the issue, but councilors came down more on the
side of the mayor's office than the auditors.
Susan Lerner, the executive director
of Common Cause, said she would like to see an end to the
practice of treating LLCs as independent entities for purposes
of campaign finance
laws, a ban or else «absolute transparency» for legislators»
side jobs and an end to pots
of discretionary funding that lawmakers can direct.
In addition, the complaint claims Glenwood has a «pattern and / or
practice»
of failing to comply with the federal
law in its design and construction
of multifamily dwellings — citing several other apartment buildings built by the company, such as the Brittany on the Upper East
Side and the Paramount Tower on East 39th Street, as examples.
But in recent years, as Silver resisted growing calls for tighter ethics
laws in the wake
of a series
of earlier pubic - corruption indictments, the suspicion grew that Silver's hold on power was actually about extracting as many dollars as he could for himself from the legal business he was
practicing on the
side.
The measure does not change state
law and does not, for instance, require disclosure
of the clients
of a lawmaker with a legal
practice on the
side.
As part
of his defense -
side civil
practice, Mr. Hawkins has handled numerous motions to dismiss, pre - and post-trial motions for judgment as a matter
of law, and oppositions to class certification.
Mark handled the business
side of things and spent as much time writing grants as he did working at his
law practice.
The excerpts, which present contradictory views on the
practice of law enforcement profiling, are printed separately on the front and back
of each sheet, much like a newspaper, where an opinion on one
side of a page might contradict another on its reverse.
Slaw and 3 Geeks,
of course, both emerged from the
practice support rather than the substantive
law side of the profession (both have their roots in the
law librarian, KM and legal research areas).
Posts provide commentary on
law and religion issues in the news and around the Web, highlight new books in
law and religion, and note news around the world
of those who find themselves on the wrong
side of the
law in their nation when they
practice their religion or express their religious views.
Not every reporter's inquiry involves
law - related issues — increasingly, especially in the legal press, stories involve the business
side of practice.
As a small business owner, I can relate personally to the challenges attorneys face trying to
practice law and grow their clientele at the same time, and I am passionate about helping them with the growth
side of the equation, so they can focus on doing what they do best.
What if the target audience
of that
side hustle knows the venture is headed by a lawyer — say the
side business is called «Barrister's Bed and Breakfast,» or its website mentions the owner also
practices law?
Being able to serve as General Counsel for HCG Asset and Property Management, LLC has afforded me the opportunity to continue
practicing law while participating in the operational
side of the real estate business.
So if you're
practicing labor
law in St. Louis, want to incorporate a business in Branson, or just need to do some legal research from the right
side of Kansas City, FindLaw has you covered — and it's all free and mobile - friendly.
I gained confidence about my ability to do whatever they assumed I could, learned about the business
side of the
practice of law, and learned a lot about people and leadership.
A lot
of firms treat personal injury cases as a
side practice to other types
of law, and because it isn't a «full time job» for them, they don't have the same tools and tricks necessary to get injured clients the help they need.
This blog is all about the tension between technology and innovation on one
side and the
law and
practice of law on the other.
At the helm
of the project, as executive editor
of Law Genius, is Christine Clarke, a 2010 graduate of Yale Law School who practiced plaintiff - side employment law in Manhattan before joining Law Genius full ti
Law Genius, is Christine Clarke, a 2010 graduate
of Yale
Law School who practiced plaintiff - side employment law in Manhattan before joining Law Genius full ti
Law School who
practiced plaintiff -
side employment
law in Manhattan before joining Law Genius full ti
law in Manhattan before joining
Law Genius full ti
Law Genius full time.
They've almost certainly seen them on TV, but most lawyers will tell you that the
practice of law is nothing like its depiction on the other
side of the tube.
Not that I don't enjoy
practicing law by any means, but that is, if you ask me, I'm much more interested in building successful businesses throughout the course
of my life whatever those look like and right now happens to be a
law firm working in family
law and, like I said, I enjoy it, but at the end
of the day, I'd love to not have the revenue generation rely on me so I can do more
of that other, but until we see those scales tip, the majority
of my work will still be on the client
side and the billing
side.
Having recently left the
practice of law to devote my time exclusively to mediation and arbitration (with some teaching and writing on the
side), I was intrigued when my ADR friend and colleague Colm Brannigan posted a link to a recent LinkedIn blog that asks: «Have Lawyers Hijacked the Promise
of Mediation?»
As this article from the Baltimore Sun (9/11/07) reports, increasingly,
law firms are hiring MBAs to help manage the business
side of Biglaw
practice.
Many
of my friends who work at big firms do tons
of pro bono work on the
side, many times in an area
of law that they do not normally
practice.
When it comes to weighing benefits and risk, we attorneys tend to err on the
side of caution and perhaps find it easier to turn a blind eye to the needs
of our clients and the public for greater access to justice over the potential discomfort it causes us a business owners to implement changes in the way we operate our
law practice.
(2) advance the all -
sided reform within Grandway, not just improve the system, but expand the areas
of our
practice to make Grandway a more sustainable, comprehensive, international and competitive
law firm.
There's a lot more to being a lawyer than just
practicing law, but as a new grad or associate, it can be difficult to learn about the business
side of things.
One example that comes to mind is a lot
of firms that do employment
law, like management
side employment
law, they still tend to bill by the hour, have pretty traditional
practices.
I can't speak for the legal industry in Toronto, but there are a few
of us at Canadian
law schools who are working on the education
side of the equation, including courses on legal innovation, legal
practice management and legal information technology.
Jon Foreman is a Partner and the leader
of Harrison Pensa LLP's Plaintiff -
side Class Actions
Practice Group with an emphasis on securities
law, financial services, competition
law, consumer
law, product
law, and pensions among other areas.
With this client -
side experience, he also brings to CAMG a breadth
of operational expertise in supporting and growing
law firm's mass tort and single event
practice areas.
With rapid changes occurring in the
practice of law, the two
sides can not remain in their respective siloes.
The
practice of law (and the business
side of running a
law practice, for that matter) involves a lot
of mistakes, missteps, and corrections.
Karin's
practice comprises civil litigation, human rights, and plaintiff -
side employment
law; and she is particularly interested in using tort and human rights
law to strengthen institutional responsibilities towards women's security, as well as that
of other historically marginalized groups.
ProLaw is a
law practice management software designed with an emphasis on running the accounting
side of your business.
Sole practitioners and firm partners juggle the business
side of law almost as much as the
practice itself.
Aaron Street: Specifically, and this is kind
of more on that disruptor
side, it used to be the case that if you wanted to be a lawyer who did software, you had to quit your
law practice and start a software company.
I think when Legaltech started, certainly technology was sort
of a thing off on the
side, it wasn't integral to the
practice of law, and as you say, now
law practice,
law business, and technology are all intertwined and it makes a lot
of sense to bring them altogether.
It makes that whole administrative
side of having a
law practice easy.»
The weight
of the moral obligations and the power that the
law offers to «make things right» ultimately drove the decision to refocus our
practice to the plaintiffs»
side, fighting for the «little guy.»
The sites
of law firms
practicing in the area
of labor and employment
law, including both labor and management
side practices.
But managing the increasingly complicated operational
side of your firm takes you away from the
practice of law.
Raising standards and «cutting» under - performing
law students would do it, though, and it would probably have the important
side effect
of increasing the number
of competent lawyers in
practice.