Risk Management
Law Firm Caught Trying to Hide in Ellipses
Here’s a free risk management tip: don’t use ellipses in briefs and pleadings to hide information you don’t want the court to see. It will irritate the judge and could be an… Read More
Risk Management
Education & Careers
Avoiding Spam Calls on Your Cell Phone
According to a CBS News report, Americans were bombarded with over 29 billion spam robocalls last year. While the national Do Not Call Registry helps, it only prevents calls fr… Read More
Risk Management
Protect you and your firm against cybercrimes
Cybecrimes are at an all-time high as headlines about attacks worldwide spread throughout news outlets. It can be unnerving to think about someone potentially accessing your personal and profe… Read More
Risk Management
Judge Calls Fee Request “Attempted Robbery”
Here’s a free risk management tip: it’s never a good sign when a judge calls your fee request an “attempted bank robbery.” Just ask this lawyer in Pennsylvania, who wa… Read More
Risk Management
Social Media -Too Much Information!
When I was about 10 years old, I remember getting into trouble because of something I wrote in a note to one friend saying things about another friend. My mom told me, “Never put a… Read More
Risk Management
10 Tips For Clients Who Are Their Own Worst Enemy
Sometimes one of the biggest challenges of legal representation is keeping clients from sabotaging their own cases. They do it in creative ways. They fail to appear for a hearing. They get th… Read More
Risk Management
Multiple Mistakes, Multiple Malpractice Claims?
If a client sues a lawyer for a series of mistakes in a single case, is it one claim under the lawyer’s malpractice policy or multiple claims? That question was recently addressed by th… Read More
Risk Management
Lawyer Rates Top $1,000 Per Hour
At this very moment, somewhere in our great land, a lawyer is billing a client $1,000 or more per hour. And the number who are doing so is growing, according to this report. Topping the list… Read More
Risk Management
Are You Committing Legal Technology Malpractice?
If you are stubbornly clinging to your fax machine or duct-taped edition of Word 2006, you might want to keep a close eye on your law license. You could be in danger of losing it. And while … Read More
Risk Management
City’s Lawyer Hit With $400,000 Malpractice Verdict For Bad Advice
Here’s a risk management tip for litigators: before advising your client to accept a pretrial settlement offer, make it clear whether attorney fees are part of the deal or not. Otherwis… Read More
