Representing a Client Adverse to a Lawyer’s Own Former Employer
A potential client comes to a lawyer with a case against his or her former employer. The catch: the lawyer worked for the same company before passing the bar.
Category: Law Practice Management
Is AI the new ‘Snake Oil’?
We have all experienced AI in modern life: Netflix recommendations, Amazon’s and Spotify’s suggestions, and LinkedIn’s and Facebook’s prods. These may be recent, but AI has been around the legal world for a long while, in both legal research and electronic discovery.
The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry v. California Guild (2019) 38 Cal.App.5th 706
Is a lawyer and his new firm subject to disqualification, notwithstanding the fact that the lawyer has been ethically screened since the date of hire, when the lawyer formerly represented a party in litigation and then joined a law firm representing an adverse party?
What to do When Your Client Constantly Calls
While you want to be compassionate and allow your client to confide in you, you do not have time. You dread the conversations as they can last an hour, with many concerns you cannot fix.
Insurance Coverage Tips from a Young Lawyer and an Old(er) Lawyer
How do you get the information and expertise you need for your practice? Get comments and suggestions from two different perspectives.
The Marketing Umbrella
How do we, as lawyers, get people to give us their hard-earned money in exchange for our time and advice, something that is valuable, but not always quantifiable?
Out of the Ordinary and Extraordinary Law Firm Marketing
In today’s ever-increasing digital age, law firm and attorney marketing has made some unique twists and turns.
And This One Was Just Right: Transitioning Between Big and Small Firms
Changing firms can be the key to reinvigorating a career or reestablishing one’s sanity.
Circle up the Wagons
It’s not a question of when our accounts, offices or finances will be compromised, but a question of when. Bill Kammer discusses cyber security tips.
Firing a Client
It's difficult to end representation of a client when the relationship isn't working. Here are some ways to move through the process ethically.