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Tracking Shot: How Do You Manage Your Law Firm Expenses?

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

Tracking business expenses admits of the same issue as tracking time spent on client matters: If you’re not diligent, you may miss out on some items, especially the smaller items.? In this way, expensing apps are a necessary, if often overlooked, component of the paperless law office. But, w hat if you treat somebody to lunch??

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Lawyer Tech Tips: Online Business Development Ideas to Try Today

Attorney at Work

The audience is encouraged to contact the law office for further information or assistance. It also ensures that as much of the pro bono attorney’s time as possible is best spent helping the client rather than on due diligence that, while necessary and important, can be accomplished through the online intake process.

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Caila A Coleman: 5 Things You Need To Become A Top Lawyer In Your Field

The Estrin Report

What do you think will be the future of how law offices operate? Talking to people who are not attorneys will help ensure that your strategy is translating well, and they can help you think of options outside of the law that you may have overlooked. Diligence: keep going even if you “fail.” Ok, fantastic.

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How to Prevent Ransomware Attacks

Blumberg

Ransomware attacks are rising, big law firms and small solo practitioners firms are equally both at risk. The key to prevention is diligence. Experts believe up-to 1500 companies across the U.S. have been targeted this year alone. What is Ransomware? It is called ransomware because one must pay to get one’s files decrypted.

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Pandemic-Related Legal Ethics Opinions: A Compendium

LawSites

Synopsis: Working from home has become the new normal, forcing law offices to transform themselves into a remote workforce overnight. Synopsis: The ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct permit virtual practice, which is technologically enabled law practice beyond the traditional brick-and mortar law firm.

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ABA Ethics Opinion on Virtual Law Practice:

Patently O

In ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 498 (March 10, 2021) ( here ), the ABA provided guidance on the ethical issues that we all have done a lot of the last year, and which I am guessing we will continue to do for a while: practice law outside the confines of a typical brick-and-mortar, or steel-and-glass, law office.

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Paralegal Roles in Other Countries

Paralegal Bootcamp

All of that has been in the profession for a long time know that very little gets handed to you on a silver platter in law – you have to work diligently for it. And, in all honesty, don’t be afraid to start at the bottom of the food chain to work your way up. Billable Hour Boot Camp.