Sentences with phrase «think about law practice»

We think about law practice as a profession as well as a business.

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I just think about the vastly expanding online world and what it can offer for so many people in so many industries, and I think that one of these would be for people practicing law.

Sanford J. Schlesinger, cochair of the family - owned - business practice of law firm Kaye Scholer LLP in New York City, urges owners to think about what he terms «asset segregation» to avoid potentially catastrophic personal exposure.

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Finally, I asked Kelly what she wishes she would have learned in law school about solo practice and I think a lot of attorneys will be able to relate to her answer.

Merrilyn Astin Tarlton has been helping lawyers think differently about the business of practicing law for... [more]

Sure, I read everyone's posts, articles, books, etc about how it is a business and be ready to run a business and some times it will feel like the practice of law is an after thought, but nothing (aside form previously owning your own business) can prepare you for what it is like to be your own boss.

I never thought about sustainability, creating a law practice where there is time not only to work but to renew, restore and rejuvenate.

Newton clearly thinks not, and adds: «How can we expect law students to become competent practitioners if the core of full - time law faculties, notwithstanding their scholarly prowess, do not themselves possess even the basic skills required to practice the type of law about which they teach and write?»

From email contents to online documents, Echo can read, dictate thoughts or other documents, re-order office supplies, send automated texts when a court is about to close, effectively go to the bank without moving a muscle, and add meetings to a Google calendar which can be synced right into your law practice management software — all without even the touch of a button.

Despite whatever preconceptions or judgments many people may have of lawyers and the work they do, there are some facts about the practice of law that can't be denied: It's tougher than most people think and frequently less fulfilling than they would ever believe.

If your firm is thinking about taking this step, or if you're interested, you can find out more about the potential risks and benefits of an LDP by reading the practice notes on legal disciplinary partnerships and firm - based regulation, to which you can obtain access from the Law Society's homepage.

You have to think about what best suits your law firm: All - in - one practice management solutions (e.g., Clio) vs. modular tools built for specific functions e.g, core tools like Microsoft 365 or Gsuite, Quickbooks Online and Box.com, with specialty tools as needed like Factbox, Law Toolbox, Evernote, and shameless plug, LeanLaw for timekeeping and billilaw firm: All - in - one practice management solutions (e.g., Clio) vs. modular tools built for specific functions e.g, core tools like Microsoft 365 or Gsuite, Quickbooks Online and Box.com, with specialty tools as needed like Factbox, Law Toolbox, Evernote, and shameless plug, LeanLaw for timekeeping and billiLaw Toolbox, Evernote, and shameless plug, LeanLaw for timekeeping and billing.

In fact, I think that's my favorite part about Legaltech — it's a place where like - minded people from across the globe converge and enthusiastically discuss the intersection of technology with the practice of law.

How you think about and adapt to adversity in your solo law practice will play a material role in your solo law firm's ultimate success or failure.

Sharon Nelson: Well, I should mention to the audience that I am very grateful to David who agreed to speak to the Virginia State Bar's Committee on the future of the practice of law and so I've had the pleasure of speaking with him before and you were absolutely marvelous to do that for us, and one of the things we talked about that day, as you'll recall, is how the American legal industry has remained stubbornly opposed to ABS in any form, so I'm going to repeat a question I asked you when you spoke to the Committee, why do you think American lawyers are so opposed to ABS?

Opportunity to Learn How to Start a Law Firm Right the First Time Wanted to start this post off with a bit of information for all of you out there thinking about starting a law firm or wondering how you can really jump start your practiLaw Firm Right the First Time Wanted to start this post off with a bit of information for all of you out there thinking about starting a law firm or wondering how you can really jump start your practilaw firm or wondering how you can really jump start your practice.

Think about the vast «Middle Office» of BigLaw — all the work required to run a law firm that is neither law practice nor entirely routine back - office support (e.g., copy center, payroll, or plant watering).

For small law practices to survive, they need to think about the following practices and how to employ then: (As we expand this series, we'll have articles on these specific ideas.

In thinking about my presentation next week for the ACLEA annual meeting about «How Technology is Changing the Practice of Law... and CLE,» I suddenly remembered that I had once written a magazine article on this very topic.

Sam Glover: I think maybe by like the fourth meeting of TBD Law I'll have invented a little shocker so that every time somebody starts talking about what's cool about practice management software I can zap them remotely.

Aaron Street: Yeah, so I am on the ABA's law practice division Legal Futures Initiative, which is kind of a gathering of a bunch of innovators in the profession talking about the future of law and the future of law practice, and at the meeting in Miami last week we all got there and realized that, setting aside the future of law practice, there were some more pressing issues in law that needed some innovators to work on — namely the travel ban, immigration ban, Executive Order from President Trump — and so our committee spent a couple of hours thinking about how we, as a group, could help lawyers solve that issue.

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.

At the time I was thinking more about how lawyers will be practicing law in ten years than I was about the steep climb and direct sunlight so I thought the «good stuff» she was referring to was a successful law practice.

You've been thinking about what it means to reinvent your law practice and you recently published a post on that.

I think what's interesting about that example is all the older attorneys really, in hindsight, looking back, can appreciate the value of what mentorship means in the practice of law.

«I thought it would be good to build a book of business and then I would have the option to take it to a firm if I decide to make that career transition in the future... I am passionate about being an attorney as a second career and on working on building a law practice, however that plays out — whether as a solo practitioner or at a firm,» said Lockerby.

There are many «projects» in law offices or libraries — offices get moved, IT systems get upgraded, and new systems generally get rolled out periodically, but those kinds of projects are not the reason I think it's worth talking about project management in legal practice now.

I thought today maybe we could talk about for lawyers who are sort of facing down the barrel of the future of law practice and are finally starting to realize that things are changing.

He was recognized as being a thought leader or whatever and he was up at the solo small convention in Minnesota and I went up to him afterwards and just felt like I finally met a kindred spirit who really had some neat, cool ideas about law practice but really useful, effective ones for doing it differently and he was reassuring me that I'm not crazy for wanting to do things differently and that it could work.

It's not just the industry as a whole that's changing, and we talk about that a lot, but really it's the individual lawyers thinking outside the box, pushing the boundaries of what we've been taught in the traditional model, and just getting out there and delivering legal services in new ways that's really forming what we call this future of law practice.

I think I know a few things about what can work for marketing a law practice, online and offline, but I don't know whether they will work for your practice.

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.

The latest issue of LAWPRO Magazine — Changing Direction: Thinking Differently About Your Law Practice — is in the mail and on the web.

There is a lot to think about beyond substantive law when you are starting a law practice.

Published by the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association, the book has sections for everyone from those who are just thinking about buying a handheld to established power users.

«The practice of law should be all about solving problems, so a lawyer's ability to listen, focus conversation, and think creatively significantly impacts their ability to be a good lawyer,» Carrel said.

Amid a media landscape of knee - jerk reactions and hyperbolic predictions, we think there is a significant need for thoughtful, well - informed commentary about, and engagement with, the intersection between potentially transformative technologies and other innovations and the real - world, well - established, everyday practice of law and provision of legal advice.

What advice would you give for somebody who is trying to think strategically about law practice and marketing, and isn't sure whether or not they want to put themselves out there?

So I think we've done a great job of bringing some of the energy of a Silicon Valley conference to the legal sphere and really focusing on innovation, what's next for legal, and getting a bunch of like - minded lawyers and support staff and thought leaders into a room together with the Clio team to think about what the future of practice management and what the future of the practice of law looks like, is my favorite part of the conference.

The practice of law is more about thinking, according to both Noah and Scott.

I was about to start a post on this, based on the online discussions which Law Practice Magazine and the CBA National are publishing, but I discovered that it had all been done for me, by our colleagues across the AtlanticThe thought of a Data Protection Commissioner as either Sting or Bono, boggles the mind.

I actually, I never even thought about going to other attorneys, just because, I mean, other than with the exception of this podcast, I don't feel like there's that much out there for attorneys to turn to that want to practice law as... I mean, please don't throw all the sticks at me right now, but practice law as a business.

We've all thought about how the bar exam is a bad way, or at least an imperfect way to assess whether people are competent to practice law, but then you've also got these other trends around part - time practice, about maternity leave, about military spouses.

Today we're talking with Alix Devendra about why lawyers need to think like designers when it comes to lawyering and law practice.

So, here's how to know if you're going to fit is if you understand the trends that are shaping the future of law practice which we talk about on this podcast, especially, on Lawyerist all the time, and you are thinking about how to prepare your law firm for the next 5, 10, 15 years of law practice with those trends in mind.

We're going to have a great podcast about what to do with those feelings, which may be perfectly valid, but I think there's the additional option that you've alluded to which is maybe you just need to change the way that you practice law so that it's better for you, better for clients.

Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

I thought the fact that there is kind of a pending issue in our state about what it means to be a lawyer, to practice law, whether full time practice is what's required for you to consider yourself practicing law, and it's pretty clear to me, and I think to most of the people engaged in the bar association in Minnesota that where our society is headed probably means that arbitrary numerical thresholds of how many hours you bill or work is probably the wrong way to think about whether people are professionally lawyers or not.

While advertising and marketing your law practice in search engines will not make it rain overnight, if you commit to thinking about how your potential clients might use search to consume legal information, get answers, and perform research, you might surprise yourself as to how successfully you can increase your firm's profile online.