Education & Careers
Law School Online
COVID-19 is Moving Law School Online Law school admissions, graduations and course offerings are all being reimagined because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Admissions are dropping. Graduation… Read More
Education & Careers
Education & Careers
Bad News for Law Schools in Texas, Idaho and California
The disruption in legal education shows no signs of abating, as yet another law school implodes while several others find themselves in dire straits. Concordia University School of Law in Boi… Read More
Education & Careers
Congratulations to Members of the 2020 NCBA Leadership Academy
If you want a glimpse of the future of the legal profession in North Carolina, a good place to look is the NC Bar Association’s Leadership Academy Class of 2020. The 17 young lawyers in… Read More
Education & Careers
Women are Law Review Editors at Top 16 Law Schools
Here’s something that’s never happened before: every one of the top 16 law schools in the U.S. has a woman as editor-in-chief of its law review or law journal. The odds of that ha… Read More
Education & Careers
How “Weak Ties” Can Strengthen Your Practice
Building healthy relationships is important for your law practice – but it’s even more important for your Law Life. For practicing lawyers, work and home are inextricably linked. … Read More
Risk Management
Lawyer Disciplined for Billing More Than 3,100 hours
Here’s some risk management advice: if you tell your firm you worked 3,173 billable hours and more than 700 nonbillable hours in a single year – including billing for depositions y… Read More
Risk Management
Hackers Use MS Office Files to Deliver Malware
If you use Microsoft Office, you’re using the vehicle of choice for email hackers. Microsoft Office formats like Word, PowerPoint and Excel are the favored file extensions for transmitt… Read More
Business of Law
14 Tips for Supercharging Your Workday
Don’t look now, but we’re entering the second quarter of 2020. I know, I know. It seems like the year just started, and here we are welcoming the first buds and blossoms of Spring… Read More
Education & Careers
Take This Smartphone Compulsion Test
Try to guess how many times the average person touches their cell phones each day. Five hundred, perhaps? A thousand? Try more than 2,600 times. And when it comes to “extreme” use… Read More
Practice of Law
Everyone Loses in Fee Fights with Clients
Here’s a risk management tip: always go the extra mile to resolve fee disputes with your clients without resorting to litigation. If you sue your client to collect the unpaid fee, there… Read More
