The Simple Guide to Legal Innovation

The Simple Guide to Legal Innovation
Author: Lucy Endel Bassli
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: Practice of law
ISBN: 9781641055888

"Educational needs of practicing lawyers are explored with a practical guide provided. Details the legal ecosystem and how its complex, varied and often overlapping parts can and should be handled by practicing attorneys, alternative legal service providers and "non-legal" professionals"--

The Lawyer's Guide to Working Smarter with Knowledge Tools

The Lawyer's Guide to Working Smarter with Knowledge Tools
Author: Marc Lauritsen
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2010
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781604428261

This ground-breaking guide introduces lawyers and other professionals to a powerful class of software that supports core aspects of legal work. The author discusses how technologies like practice systems, work product retrieval, document assembly, and interactive checklists help people work smarter. If you are looking to work more effectively, this book provides a clear roadmap, with many concrete examples and thought-provoking ideas.

A Lawyer Writes

A Lawyer Writes
Author: Christine Nero Coughlin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781531020699

"Like the popular earlier editions, the fourth edition of A Lawyer Writes puts the reader in the place of a first-year attorney faced with real-life assignments. In doing so, it teaches law students not only how to succeed in law school, but also how to succeed in the practice of law. Using graphics and visual samples that demonstrate both effective and ineffective analytical techniques, this updated edition illustrates best practices for objective legal analysis and provides an overview of the transition from objective to persuasive writing. The content and examples in the fourth edition have been supplemented, updated, and reorganized to provide an easy-to-use, step-by-step approach for learning legal analysis and objective writing. A Lawyer Writes aims to provide clear and concrete instruction about each facet of legal analysis, using the same order students will follow when performing the tasks in legal practice. The textbook also provides the relevant theory and background behind the choices attorneys make in their legal writing, enabling students to transfer those techniques to future settings. Speaking to its readers in a straightforward manner, A Lawyer Writes communicates essential skills and theories students can use throughout a lifetime of legal practice"--

The Lawyer's Guide to Buying, Selling, Merging, and Closing a Law Practice

The Lawyer's Guide to Buying, Selling, Merging, and Closing a Law Practice
Author: Sarina Butler
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781590319321

This book is a valuable resource for information on things to consider before and during the process of buying, selling, closing, and merging a law practice. The guide provides advice and tips on: the advantages of buying and selling a law practice; the ethical aspects of acquiring a law practice; valuation of a law firm; tax consequences of retiring a partner's interest in a law firm taxed as a partnership; merging law firms; selling a niche practice; business responsibilities in closing a law practice; the ethical aspects of winding down a law practice; file preservation; and ending client and employee relationships. The guide includes handy checklists, forms, and sample letters as well as several Rules from the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318737

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Limited Scope Legal Services

Limited Scope Legal Services
Author: Stephanie L. Kimbro
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781614383628

By providing representation for a clearly defined portion of the client's legal needs, such as preparing a legal document or making limited court appearances, lawyers can market their practice to an entirely new client base and give their firm a competitive advantage. The only book available on the topic, Limited Scope Legal Services provides lawyers of all types--from solo to big law--with practical solutions for setting up unbundling practices in their firms.

The Lawyer's Guide to Marketing Your Practice

The Lawyer's Guide to Marketing Your Practice
Author: James A. Durham
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2004
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590313558

A well-developed, successfully executed marketing plan will attract new clients, increase referrals, and strengthen client loyalty. This resource will help you master the creative marketing solutions you need.

A Lawyer's Guide to Working with Special Needs Clients

A Lawyer's Guide to Working with Special Needs Clients
Author: Richard A. Courtney
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781641054683

Persons with disabilities and their family members and caregivers face numerous challenges every day. But beyond those day-to-day issues, they often need assistance navigating bureaucracies and in developing plans for long-term care and financial security. This book, written by a special needs attorney, supplies essential information and valuable guidance to the issues involved in representing these clients. The book begins with advice on understanding and representing special needs clients and their families, including key questions to ask to tailor an appropriate plan. Subsequent chapters address other aspects of representing special needs clients, including: - Public benefits, including SSI, Medicare, and Medicaid- Special needs education issues- Special needs trusts- Financial issues- Ethical and practice risks- How to build a special needs legal practice

The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life & Work

The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life & Work
Author: George W. Kaufman
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2006
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590316740

The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life and Work, Second Edition is about how the law fits inside you, not how you fit inside the law. Making space for creativity and passion within your current workplace and at home can yield enormous emotional rewards. In the end, this book will support you whether you stay in the law, shift your law practice, or move on to other work. This book is the tool you need to make healthy decisions and welcome the passion back into your life!

Unbundling Legal Services

Unbundling Legal Services
Author: Forrest S. Mosten
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2000
Genre: Law
ISBN:

This books explains how firms can start unbundling their law practice and offer this new consumer-oriented approach to legal service delivery to their clients.