Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 445: Best Practices for Getting Accommodations in Law School
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 442: Quick Tips -- How to Get the Most Out of Your Summer Legal Job
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 253: Bar Exam Best Practices - Creating Good Habits
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 440: Making Good Career Decisions in Law School (w/Sadie Jones)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 249: Quick Tips -- How to Prepare for the NextGen Bar Exam While Still in Law School
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 436: Improving Executive Functioning Skills as a Law Student
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 234: Rebounding from a Bar Exam Failure
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 413: Preparing for the Bar Exam with Themis and UWorld
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 402: Quick Tips -- The MPRE
An Unwanted Spotlight: DOJ Announces Hospice Fraud Is Top Priority
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 205: Quick Tips -- Fighting Perfectionism During Bar Prep
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 198: The NextGen Bar Exam (w/Doretta McGinnis)
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 369: Using Spaced Repetition for Your Law School and Bar Exam Studies (w/Gabriel Teninbaum)
ABA Sound Advice: Five Tips for Successful Local Counsel Engagements
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 190: Listen and Learn -- Exceptions to Confidentiality (Professional Responsibility)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 179: Listen and Learn -- Professional Responsibility: Competence
Nota Bene Episode 103: The Diversity and Inclusion Imperative: Codifying Equality into the Lawyer’s Professional Code with David Douglass
5 Key Takeaways | What’s Hot in Financial Technology: Latest and Greatest Developments and Fintech Trends
CorpCast Episode 3: Preview of Business Divorce CLE at 2015 ABA Business Law Section Spring Meeting
Jobs, Funding For Courts On Agenda For New ABA President
It is becoming increasingly difficult to practice law without some knowledge of climate change as well as the law related to climate change. Irma Russell, Matt Bogoshian, and I recently published an article making the case...more
Be cautious, be curious, be vigilant, and be brave. Those were the words of the New York State Bar Association’s Task Force on Artificial Intelligence. It is good advice. GenAI is here and lawyers need to understand its...more
This blog post is the third in a series on common ethical challenges that arise while preparing for and conducting depositions. Insurers and large corporate legal departments are sophisticated consumers of legal services, but...more
This blog post is the second in a series on common ethical challenges that arise when preparing for and conducting depositions. What is a litigator ethically bound to do when a client lies during a deposition? This is not an...more
This blog post is the first in a series on common ethical challenges that arise when preparing for and conducting depositions. Social media offers such a wealth of details about a person’s circumstances and beliefs that...more
We’ve previously written on the need for law firms to scrutinize the data security protections in place at all third-party vendors who have access to client confidential information. Clearly, that’s still good advice....more
The American Bar Association recently issued a Formal Ethics Opinion addressing the ethics of attorney office sharing arrangements. In Formal Opinion 507, issued on July 12, 2023, the ABA Standard Committee on Ethics and...more
Lawyers are members of a learned and honorable profession, subject to legal ethics rules, and encouraged to be civil as they practice their craft. These fundamental concepts—legal ethics, professionalism, and civility—were...more
By now most lawyers are familiar with the story of DoNotPay, the company that promised to provide a traffic offense defendant with a “robot lawyer” to fight the ticket in court. The plan went like this: The defendant would be...more
Ideally, the attorney-client relationship begins once a signed written engagement agreement is in place, which clearly outlines the clients who will be represented and the agreed scope of legal services. A properly drafted...more
On August 8, 2023, the American Bar Association (“ABA”) House of Delegates voted overwhelmingly (216–102) to pass Revised Resolution 100 (the “Resolution”), which in turn revised ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.16...more
The American Bar Association has again called on law firms to do more to protect their computer systems from intrusion by bad actors. The ABA’s House of Delegates approved Aug. 8 a trio of resolutions addressing cybersecurity...more
In Formal Opinion 504, the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility sought to clarify ABA Model Rule 8.5’s choice-of-law provision. The Opinion provides an overview of Rule 8.5, and illustrates the...more
The COVID-19 pandemic, along with government stay-at-home orders, required millions of professionals to work from home, including attorneys. However, as the pandemic comes to an end, many attorneys wish to continue to work...more
ChatGPT and related artificial intelligence technologies are one of the most exciting developments to hit the legal profession in decades. Their ability to synthesize large datasets of legal information and deliver...more
A lurking issue for lawyers who live and/or work in multiple jurisdictions is which ethics rules apply to their conduct. A lawyer who lives, works, and serves clients whose interests are confined to a single jurisdiction need...more
The Ohio Board of Professional Conduct recently considered an interesting issue related to deposition practice: whether or not nonlawyers such as paralegals can ethically participate in pretrial depositions. The board decided...more
In this excerpt from our free eGuide on protecting attorney-client privilege, we explore the changes in rules regarding privilege and their real-life implications... The right of an attorney to communicate with a client...more
Referral fees, or fee sharing, among attorneys have become so commonplace that it may be easy to forget about the headache that they can cause to attorneys and clients alike. Our focus today is on the potential consequences...more
The American Bar Association (ABA) has issued its second formal opinion concerning Model Rule 4.2 in as many months. The so-called “no-contact rule” prohibits a lawyer from having contact with a represented party about the...more
American Bar Association (ABA) Model Rule 4.2, the “no-contact rule,” provides that: “In representing a client, a lawyer shall not communicate about the subject of the representation with a person the lawyer knows to be...more
This podcast provides practical advice for locating, engaging, and working with local counsel on litigation matters. This is especially useful for those hiring local counsel and for those who serve as local counsel. Tips...more
Many lawyers have confronted the irksome practice of opposing counsel sending emails containing half-truths such as...more
To achieve modernization, the legal industry is operating off a new mindset requiring focus on efficiency and innovation when making operational decisions. Legal departments, law firms, legal service providers, and other...more
Technology can be a curse or a comfort for lawyers. It promises to make you more efficient, but who has the time to learn it all? (And doesn’t that take away from the sacred billable hour?) Integrating the right tools...more