Law Practice Products & Services, Professional Malpractice, Business Organization

Consumer Law Revolution: The Lawyer's Guide to Working with Online Marketing Tools (Branded Networks)

by Virtual Law Practice on 1/1/2013

This ebook will serve as a practical how-to manual with best practices for lawyers wishing to collaborate with branded networks to market their law practice, deliver legal services to clients online, and for lawyer brand...more

Protecting a Law Firm’s Crown Jewels

by Jerome Kowalski on 6/8/2012

Here’s a real shocker for you: When a partner leaves a healthy law firm, he and his or her new firm can be required to return to his or her old law firm the profits made the cases he or she brings along. These obligations...more

Next Battlefield in Dewey Liquidation: Pursuing Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claims

by Jerome Kowalski on 6/4/2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf’s inglorious galactic implosion changes all of the rules; it was not too big to fail, it was, however, far too big and corroded to fail in the relatively orderly way others before it failed. The next...more

REGULATORY BARRIERS TO THE GROWTH OF MULTIJURISDICTIONAL VIRTUAL LAW FIRMS AND POTENTIAL FIRST STEPS TO THEIR REMOVAL

by Virtual Law Practice on 6/1/2012

The spread of disruptive technologies to the legal profession is changing the dynamic of how law firms are structured as well as the value propositions associated with the delivery of legal services. The number of law firms...more

Are You Prepared to Kick Butt?

by Pamela Woldow on 1/18/2012

Here's a blunt message to all General Counsel: "No More Mr. Nice Guy!" Given the the realignment of power in the legal profession's "New Normal," you have to exercise authority more forcefully. Demand more accountability...more

ABSs & the SRA Handbook - A New Era for 2012

by Rachel Khiara on 1/12/2012

Three months under the new regulatory regime - how is your business adapting, what should you be thinking about, and what are the responsibilities of your COLP and COFA? From 3rd January 2012, non-legal persons may now...more

Common mistakes in LLP agreements

by Chris Robinson on 10/18/2011

LLPs have now been around for a while and some common and serious errors are emerging in the way LLP agrements are written - even by commercial publishers. Does yours need reviewing?...more

How to Pick an Asset Protection Lawyer - Due Dilligence Questions

by IKE DEVJI on 6/10/2011

Article with key due diligence questions to help consumers and their advisors determine exactly who and what an Asset Protection planner is, how to avoid amateurs and common mistakes and how to pick the best help in a complex...more

Law Firm Crisis Management: Planning, Developing and Implementing a Public Relations and Communications Program for Law Firms

by Jerome Kowalski on 4/21/2011

Every law firm maintains a disaster recovery plan in order to be prepared for natural or man-made disasters so that the firm can continue in operation. However, most law firms fall short in maintaining a public and media...more

It Shouldn’t Suck to be an Associate at a Law Firm

by Jerome Kowalski on 4/18/2011

Law firms inexplicably eat their young. Attrition of law firm associates has always been a blight on the profession. This attrition is financially painful as associates leave BigLaw in droves during their third or fourth...more

Practicing Law Without an Office Address: How the Bona Fide Office Requirement Affects Virtual Law Practice

by Virtual Law Practice on 2/1/2011

This Article from the University of Dayton Law Review, Volume 36-1 (2011) examines virtual law practice as a necessary and inevitable solution to the globalization of law firms and the lack of access to justice in our...more

Are Partners Protected by Antidiscrimination Laws In the Event They are Discharged? Are Law firm Partners Owners and Not...

by Jerome Kowalski on 9/27/2010

The fact, rarely spoken of publicly, is that law firm partners are simply employees at will. The issue is framed in the context of (1) a recent federal case in which a female partner was ousted by her partners and claimed...more

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