It has been a wild month so far in the financial markets and it doesn’t appear that the roller coaster has come to a complete stop yet. So as possible bank failures loom, some of us are hearing from lawyers concerned about the safety of their client’s funds in their trust accounts and their own
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Friendly Gifts or Kickbacks?
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I saw a full page ad on the back of a law-related magazine a few months back that bothered me. It was placed by a multi-state court reporting firm and offered a $25 gift card in return for the next deposition scheduled with the firm. I imagine that they got a lot of responses. But…
Site of the Week: The Last Word Blog is Launched
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Today I have a pleasant assignment. I get to write about one of my favorite people. That is because Laura Calloway has launched her new blog, The Last Word. Laura Calloway is the Director of the Practice Management Assistance Program for the Alabama State Bar. She is an intelligent and capable lawyer and I have…
Another Firm Improperly Redacts Important Documents
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Today we have another report of a law firm making a technology blunder that appears to arguably violate a court order on what should be sealed and could adversely impact the client’s case. According to an article originally published in the Connecticut Law Tribute, pleadings from a class action lawsuit against GE that the court…
For 2008, I Hereby Resolve …
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It’s now the second week of February. How are you doing on all of those New Year’s resolutions? Are you still keeping them all or is the better question whether there any still unbroken?
For those of you who subscribe to the RSS newsfeed, you might have thought this post was somehow delayed. But, actually…
2007 in Law Office Management and Technology
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At the end of each year I do a presentation called Recent Developments in Law Office Management and Technology as a part of an overall recent developments seminar in December. This year I decided use part of the material from that presentation for my December Bar Journal column, which my editors titled Year’s Best in …
Still More on Closing Files, Destroying Files and Making Money
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I have been thinking destructive thoughts recently. Last month (August 4th, 2007) in the Oklahoma Bar Journal I wrote an article titled "Closing Files, Destroying Files and Making Money." I was proud of this article and the focus on the interplay between file closing and file destruction policies. But some more related materials crossed…
Site of the Week: Legal Management Archives from ALA
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This may be one of my most valuable Website of the Week posts, so don’t stop reading early.
I have been a member of the Association of Legal Administrators for ten years now. We have a great local chapter in Oklahoma City. It is too bad I often have conflicts and have to miss their…
From Business Boot Camp to The New Lawyer Experience
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The American Bar Association publication Your ABA recently highlighted a program that had me as one of the panelists at ABA Annual Meeting. Read this nice article about our Business Boot Camp for Lawyers. We had a nice audience and my co-panelists were great.
In Oklahoma, it is time for lawyers who are either…
Closing Files, Destroying Files and Making Money
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I get a fair number of calls from Oklahoma Bar Association members about destruction of old closed client files. Can they destroy these files? If so, when? What are the requirements and pitfalls? So, for the August 4th, 2007, Oklahoma Bar Journal I wrote "Closing Files, Destroying Files and Making Money." One important point is…