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Leveraging Tools to Reduce Burnout for Family Law Attorneys

CARET Legal

The right tools can transform how family law attorneys manage their daily responsibilities, reducing burnout and promoting a healthier work-life balance. Family law attorneys handle emotionally charged cases and heavy caseloads, often leading to burnout and stress.

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Depositions in Virginia Divorce

Livesay&Myers

Divorce litigation involves various legal tools and pretrial procedures that work to ensure a fair… Continue reading Depositions in Virginia Divorce The post Depositions in Virginia Divorce appeared first on Livesay & Myers, PC.

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Ethical Considerations for Flat Fee Billing

Attorney at Work

QUESTION: I’m a solo practitioner with a general practice handling everything from real estate transactions to family law. As a best practice, to assure that there is no misunderstanding, the lawyer also should specifically state in the fee agreement that the lawyer is not depositing the fees into an IOLTA or other Trust account.

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Abu Dhabi introduces personal status law for non-Muslim foreigners, shakes up domestic and international family law

Conflict of Laws

The law carries forward a series of recent legal reforms that aim at providing greater legal certainty for the country’s large expatriate population. The law’s novelty lies in the fact that it combines aspects of substantive and international family law. Multinationalism and its challenges for family law.

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Paralegal Compliance Officer – An Interview with Melissa Andrews

Paralegal Bootcamp

She started it with just an associate’s degree, her paralegal certification, and around 15 or so years of paralegal experience working primarily in personal injury, but with a sprinkling in of some family law, criminal, and real estate. They were like, “Hey, as a paralegal, you’ve done some deposition prep.

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Project Management Tools for Attorneys

Attorney at Work

MerusCase includes specialty features for specific areas of law as well, including family law, employment and workers’ comp. They can also monitor accepted settlements, tracking any pending payments, recording any deposited checks, and projecting any future income streams. A Powerful Project Management Panacea?

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What is a Litigation Paralegal?

Paralegal Bootcamp

Prepare for depositions, mediations, and arbitrations. Prepare for depositions, mediations, and arbitrations. that the attorney might want to use during these depositions, mediations, and arbitrations. Three primary areas of case management responsibility include: Draft pleadings and discovery. Assist at trial. Assist at trial.