NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
AUGUST 5, 2019
Lawyers are often so head - down on substantive work that they spend very little time considering their ‘ sales cycle ’, which every business has. Whereas software companies consider metrics like ‘ cost of acquisition ’, law firms merely send out cadres of attorneys to network, with the fervent hope that that activity generates business, at some undetermined point in the future.
Legal Research is Easy
AUGUST 5, 2019
Do you remember being a kid? Specifically, do you remember going to mom for something and then going to dad when mom said no hoping that dad would give a more favorable response? Yeah, happens all the time. The other day, my kid tried that. She saw a toy in the store and, turning to mom said, "can I have that?" When mom said, "NO!" she turned around (I was standing maybe 3 feet away) and said, "Dad, can I have that?
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Open Law Lab
AUGUST 9, 2019
A quick sketch of Professor Gillian Hadfield’s presentation to the California Bar’s task force on innovation and access to legal services, on the need for business mod4l and legal regulatory reform. Can we create more efficient, accessible legal services if we create new business models that have scaled up entities that employ lawyers – but aren’t run by lawyers?
LexBlog
AUGUST 9, 2019
The “S” word in the Paralegal Profession. It’s not all about the money, right? But it helps. Paralegals assume a variety of roles in the workplace, and many do the jobs of three or more people. In this article, we take a look at paralegal salaries by state in 2019, and the influential factors behind the figures. It is interesting how your geographic location can make a substantial difference concerning your salary.
Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor
Get ready to uncover what attorneys really need from you when it comes to trial prep in this new webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will share proven techniques for anticipating attorney needs, organizing critical documents, and transforming complex information into compelling case presentations. Key Learning Objectives: Organization That Makes Sense 🎯 Learn how to structure and organize case materials in ways that align with how attorneys actually work and think.
LegalSecretariesRock
AUGUST 6, 2019
I'm back! Long time, no blog. I've been in a bit of a writing slump. I didn't forget about you. I've just been working really hard. So hard that I need a beauty overhaul. If I look better, maybe I'll feel better - even if beauty is only skin deep. We get so busy commuting, working, running a household and taking care of our families that we forget to take care of ourselves.
Paralegal Brief brings together the best content for paralegals and legal professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders
Open Law Lab
AUGUST 5, 2019
Upon some online requests, here is a backlog of 2014-dated tax law flowcharts that I did while studying for my Tax final. Flowcharting turned out to be a great method to prep for memorizing lots of conditionalities and outcomes. Please note these flowcharts are out of date — so don’t rely on them for legal guidance. They’re here more to show how I used flowcharting the legal rules to study.
NewYorkCourtWatcher
AUGUST 7, 2019
President Trump's first appointee, Neil Gorsuch, took his seat on the Supreme Court in the spring of 2017. By that time, judicial scholars--both political scientists and law professors--had studied his record on the federal appeals court from which he was elevated. Based on his voting patterns as an appellate judge, Gorsuch's position among the other federal judges on the ideological spectrum.
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