Sentences with phrase «types of practicing lawyer»

Kennerly accurately characterizes the different types of practicing lawyer blogs, which he divides into three main types: the mainstream, the personalities, and the marketers.

Not exact matches

Although I am not aware of any similar types of practice by banks in Canada, the types of concerns that Moorhead raises in his blog have been raised with respect to the involvement of Canadian lawyers in sending civil recovery letters to shoplifters on behalf of retailers.

We are focused exclusively on attorney marketing, and we have the tools, expertise and resources to bring greater success to lawyers and legal practices of all types and sizes.

When I was running a national lawyer magazine, we recognized that we simply couldn't provide reasonable coverage of every type of law practice and every sort of law - related issue potentially germane to the readership.

Eight percent of solos and 9 % of lawyers in firms of 2 - 9 attorneys use a domain name that is based on a practice area rather than on the firm name; only 1 % of larger firms use this type of domain name.

So one of the first things a lawyer needs to do is accept that she will suffer slings and arrows throughout her career, and the more difficult her type of practice, the more intense the slinging.

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.

Half of my practice is probate, the other half is giving legal advice on the phone in connection with this relationship I have with ARAG Legal Insurance in fielding 40 to 60 calls a day, not on my own but I have three lawyers to help me and I manage them online with a type of virtual practice that I've set up.

Law firm marketing is all we do, and we know what it takes to help lawyers and legal practices of all types and sizes become more successful online.

In the world of solo and small law firms, «threshold law» describes the type of practice where a lawyer takes every case that comes across the threshold.

The true measure of leadership of the lawyer managers of today's law firms is their ability to maintain a careful balance between the need to (1) encourage each lawyer's individual initiative, (2) provide for the much needed atmosphere of professional camaraderie, so typical of the partnership type of law practice, and (3) plan and implement financial tools of modern business without which the best practice can fail.

The broad reach of Nolo's multiple websites is appealing for lawyers that work in the types of practice areas that consumers search for by name, such as personal injury and criminal defense.

However, traditional dictation has declined as the use of computers has become more prevalent in law firms, and younger lawyers have entered the practice with better typing skills than their predecessors.

American Association of Immigration Lawyers Organization Type: Association Position / Title: Director, Practice & Professionalism Center Functional Area: Association Year of Induction: 2008

The true measure of leadership of the lawyer managers of today's law firm is the ability to maintain a careful balance between the need to (1) encourage each lawyer's individual initiative, (2) provide for the much needed atmosphere of professional camaraderie so typical of the partnership type of law practice, and (3) plan and implement financial tools of modern business without which the best practice can fail.

Martindale - Hubbell conducts an independent evaluation of a lawyer's knowledge of the law in his or her area of legal practice, creativity in analyzing legal issues and applying his or her legal knowledge, demonstration of the salient factors that drive the outcome of a particular type of case or issue, demonstrated ability to communicate persuasively and credibly, and the lawyer's degree of experience in his or her practice area.

Case Manager is ideal for rolling out across all types of legal practices and is the software of choice for lawyers involved in all types of caseloads.

As we are a referral based personal injury practice, please feel free to call the Firm, or review the Firm's Website for more information about the type of cases the firm can handle and for more information about our lawyers» experience and areas of practice.

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Luckily, there is a team of wrongful death lawyers based in Kansas City who are licensed to practice in Missouri and Kansas and have extensive experience with all these types of personal injuries.

The answer is simple: If more lawyers conducted themselves not just as lawyers but as businesspeople or as owners of the practice, the law firms would more likely experience the same type of success as businesses in other industries.

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.

I've often thought there should be a sort of Myers - Briggs Type Indicator for legal practice that guides lawyers into career paths in the law according to their personality tType Indicator for legal practice that guides lawyers into career paths in the law according to their personality typetype.

I'm not sure I agree with Darryl that lawyers» practice areas ought to be influenced by their personality types; rather, I would suggest that their choice of practice setting should be considered in light of their introversion or extroversion (as the case may be).

«The capacity to innovate is becoming indispensable to the practice of law and the lawyers of tomorrow need the type of experience they will get in this program.»

So for instance, I might say Christopher Anderson, he is a legal tech, might be a tag, or I might tag him as coach or consultant or something like that, or I might take a lawyer and tag them with their practice areas, because what can I do with that then I can filter based on practice areas or type of person.

Our accident lawyers see more rear - end car crashes than any type of car accident in our law practice.

As one of the nation's leading lawyers in the emerging field of state unclaimed property laws, John devotes a substantial part of his practice to representing and advising a variety of manufacturers, retailers, distributors, financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, telecommunications and transportation companies, utilities, service providers and other types of businesses on complex multi-state unclaimed property audits, litigation, voluntary disclosure agreements and transactional issues.

Very important use is made of this type of data by the practicePRO program, LAWPRO's leading - edge risk management program that assists lawyers in identifying and reducing practice risks.

In support of our energy practice, our tax lawyers participate in tax planning for all types of domestic and international oil and gas transactions, including master limited partnerships (MLPs), renewable energy project finance and tax equity matters, and large - scale utility transactions.

While allowing for more precision in recording individual lawyers» claims histories, this also allows for a better understanding of claims and claim trends, through modelling of risks that face the profession generally and lawyers in different types of practice circumstances (e.g., by years of practice, size of practice, area of practice, location of practice, etc.).

John Reeder's practice is split between acting as an arbitrator and mediator and accepting instructions as counsel from overseas lawyers and clients in all types of shipping and commercial disputes.

In some circumstances here in the U.S. you may be better off consulting a lawyer in outside, independent, private practice rather than in - house counsel — because of the way that U.S. courts respond to those two types of attorneys in their application of the attorney - client privilege.

The NYSBA's Special Committee on Balanced Lives in the Law, chaired by Syracuse lawyer M. Catherine Richardson, spent nearly three years on the report, meeting with lawyers in all corners of the state, in all types of practices, of all ages, genders and ethnicities.

Already, as Simon has pointed out, the type of legal work most commonly found in small towns simply doesn't pay enough to justify law society fees, professional insurance and practice overhead (or at least, to supply the type of income most lawyers still consider commensurate with their professional standing).

Though my techniques were developed in a litigation practice, they apply to most types of clients and their lawyers.

Historically lawyers in Australia have been active in introducing technology, probably because of the relatively high wage component of practice overheads and most practices, certainly all the larger and most of the smaller firms and sole practices would have a computerised file management sytem of some type, usually locally produced software such as LEAP, a few firms have Amicus though this would be unusual.

«The practice of real estate is not a commodity, it's a professional service, and if you don't pay attention to your professional obligations to all of your clients in every transaction, you're going to find yourself in this type of circumstance and it would appear that this is a lawyer who was at best far too busy and at worst was deliberately being dishonest,» he says.

This was evident at the mid-winter meeting of the CBA Council, when the Legal Futures Initiative took advantage of the gathering of lawyers from across the country, representing most sizes and types of practice, to find out what lawyers think clients want.

A second example comes from a lawyer working in a small, 12 - lawyer «full service» law firm whose practice area required significant bench strength to effectively leverage the types and size of matters he said he handled.

• The establishment of alternative business structures that could see different types of lawyers and nonlawyers managing and owning legal practices.

I have been teaching an upper year class for about 10 years now that focuses students on what «type» of lawyer they want to be — meaning not whether they practice family, or criminal or general litigation but WHO they want to be as a lawyer and what type of service they see themselves as offering to their clients.

My reference to 20 years as a bencher was simply to illustrate that I have seen a generational shift in attitudes caused by nothing other than a narrowing of the career - long practice environment of a certain type of bencher (I do not fault them for their human nature)-- similar to the generational shift that I confidently predict will happen to lawyers whose practice environment would feature behemoth, non-lawyer owners.

Area of practice When reviewing claims LAWPRO looks at both the «frequency» of claims for different types of law (how commonly are lawyers sued in that practice area) and «severity» of claims (what is the relative cost to resolve claims).

This type of marketing is still applicable today, but doesn't really help lawyers in competitive practice areas stand out from the herd.

I soon learned that the type of practice Forrest was describing had a name: Collaborative Law, the brainchild of American lawyer Stuart Webb.

Those lawyers had to be successful rainmakers with similar types of clients and high quality business to refer; they had to be top performers with top credentials; and they had to share her ambition, drive and commitment to building a successful and lucrative law practice.

O'Meara has been in practice for more than 20 years, including more than a decade as a criminal defense lawyer and several years as a Cook County assistant state's attorney prosecuting various types of crimes, including DUIs and other criminal traffic matters.

It's just unfortunate that a lawyer with the vision to found this kind of alternative practice suffered from the types of flaws that ultimately resulted in its downfall.

Lawyers trying the case almost always try to use a cause strike to get a lawyer off, saying that they are biased toward either Defense or Plaintiffs based on the type of law they practice.