NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Quick: What are the two things that lawyers do the most ? If you answered: respond to email and create documents, you’d be right.? Yet, even as lawyers spend more time creating documents (pushing electronic paper) than anyone else, they’re still using antiquated methods for building documents from templates. Attorneys are very good at creating specific documents for clients from existing templates.?

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Connor Reporting

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Law and reading have always gone hand in hand. With the amount of words flying around in your day-to-day job, it’s sometimes easy to forget that legal reading doesn’t only have to be for work. If you’re at a loss when it comes to picking out your next reading material, we’re here to help. The following are just some of the most popular reads for lawyers right now.

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The Rainmaker

OCTOBER 8, 2019

If you’ve been using professional SEO practices for a while, then you probably think everything about your online reputation is just fine. But there may be some surprises lurking beyond the first page or two of your search results. Perhaps some negative reviews from former clients that you’ve never seen before? Images of you that someone else posted and tagged with your name from that party you’d rather forget?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 126.

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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.

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The Rainmaker

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Originally published on May 22, 2019; updated with new info on Oct. 10, 2019. Here’s a lesson that many attorneys learn the hard way: you will never have that lifestyle law firm you want if you keep taking on the wrong types of clients. These are the people that fall outside a pre-defined category of what constitutes your ideal client. You need to look at your most profitable clients and create an ideal client profile, then qualify your leads to fit that profile.

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