When providing independent legal advice, a checklist provides you with a handy tool to ensure that you are covering all the bases when discussing the underlying transaction and your client’s relationship to that transaction. Using this checklist, created by Phil Epstein Q.C., will allow you to be in a better position to successfully defend a negligence claim in relation to the provision of independent legal advice.
The end of one year and the start of a new one is a time for self-reflection and self-improvement. Many of you will think about making changes in your personal and work lives. But while you all have good intentions, it can be difficult to break old habits, especially when you are running hard on the treadmill of a busy life and practice. So, to harness the good intentions you all have at this time of year we are going to post a daily excerpt from our list of “New Year’s resolutions for a healthier practice and a new you” that appears in the December 2012 issue of LAWPRO Magazine.
Some of the resolutions we have collected focus on specific areas of law. Others will help you with various law practice operation and management issues – and many will help you avoid or at least lessen the likelihood you will face a malpractice claim. A good number of the resolutions will have a positive impact on your personal life.
So watch this space over the coming days for resolutions:
With small steps, over time, our resolutions can help you can make big changes. Good luck with your efforts!
click here or on the image above to read this article from the Winter 2006 edition of LAWPRO Magazine, “Delivering on the Client Service Promise”. All past LAWPRO Magazine articles can be found at www.lawpro.ca/magazinearchives
We have a new addition to the practicePRO Lending Library. iPad in One Hour for Lawyers by Tom Mighell is great for beginner or advanced users, and is ideal for lawyers who want to get up to speed quickly.
Subjects include:
Lawyers who are considering an alternative to their heavy laptops and would like to know what they can do with an iPad will want to check this out.
Click here to view the table of contents
The practicePRO Lending Library is a free resource for Ontario lawyers of more than 100 books on a wide variety of law practice management related topics. You can see a full listing of our books here. You may borrow a book in person or via e-mail.
The practicePRO Library is located in our office at 250 Yonge Street, Suite 3101 in Toronto and can be visited during our regular business hours (Mon to Fri, 8:30 to 5:00). We invite you to come by anytime to peruse our selection. All titles in the practicePRO Lending Library can be shipped to Ontario lawyers at our expense, and returned at yours after three weeks.
If you would like to borrow this or any other book please email us. Most of our titles are also available from the ABA Web Store or the major booksellers here in Canada.
The Law Society of Upper Canada has just released an updated version of its Guidelines for Law Office Searches. These Guidelines are intended to inform you of best practices and steps that can be taken to protect the solicitor-client privilege of your clients in the event of a search and seizure of your law office.
Topics covered in the Guidelines include:
The execution of a search warrant at a law office is a challenging and stressful event. As a lawyer, you are duty bound to assert and protect the solicitor-client privilege held by all your clients. Consult these Guidelines for helpful and practical advice for dealing with a law office search.
The practicePRO Guide to Resources is a handy reference to all the risk and practice management material we offer, contained in a 4 page brochure format. We’ve recently updated the Guide, and a PDF version is available here.
The Guide introduces the reader to the main facets of practicePRO:
The back page features our Top 10 most downloaded resources in three categories: LAWPRO Magazine articles, precedents & checklists, and supplemental resources.
If you would like some copies for your office, just email us and we’ll mail some out to you.
Almost everyone now uses Google for their day to day personal information searches, but it can also be a powerful tool and low-cost technology and research tool for lawyers to use in their offices.
Google for Lawyers: Essential Search Tips and Productivity Tools by Carole A. Levitt and Mark E. Rosch provides effective searching tips and an introduction to other free Google productivity tools to both the novice and advanced user. It shows how the small firm lawyer can use Google to compete with the large IT budgets of big firms. In this book you’ll find:
Click here to view the table of contents
The practicePRO Lending Library is a free resource for Ontario lawyers of more than 100 books on a wide variety of law practice management related topics. You can see a full listing of our books here. You may borrow a book in person or via e-mail.
The practicePRO Library is located in our office at 250 Yonge Street, Suite 3101 in Toronto and can be visited during our regular business hours (Mon to Fri, 8:30 to 5:00). We invite you to come by anytime to peruse our selection. All titles in the practicePRO Lending Library can be shipped to Ontario lawyers at our expense, and returned at yours after three weeks.
If you would like to borrow this or any other book please email us. Most of our titles are also available from the ABA Web Store or the major booksellers here in Canada.
A new addition to the practicePRO Lending Library is Find Info Like a Pro: Mining the Internet’s Publically Available Resources for Investigative Research by Carole A. Levitt and Mark E. Rosch.
The internet contains a wealth of free resources that legal professionals can put to use in investigative and background research. This book provides the secrets, shortcuts and realities of using these tools for (among other things) investigations, depositions, locating witnesses or heirs and trial preparations.
Click here to view the table of contents.
The practicePRO Lending Library is a free resource for Ontario lawyers of more than 100 books on a wide variety of law practice management related topics. You can see a full listing of our books here. You may borrow a book in person or via e-mail.
The practicePRO Library is located in our office at 250 Yonge Street, Suite 3101 in Toronto and can be visited during our regular business hours (Mon to Fri, 8:30 to 5:00). We invite you to come by anytime to peruse our selection. All titles in the practicePRO Lending Library can be shipped to Ontario lawyers at our expense, and returned at yours after three weeks.
If you would like to borrow this or any other book please email us. Most of our titles are also available from the ABA Web Store or the major booksellers here in Canada.
A new addition to the practicePRO Lending Library is Selling In You Comfort Zone: Safe and Effective Strategies for Developing New Business by Robert N. Kohn and Lawrence M. Kohn.
Selling is an important skill for lawyers in private practice, but its also one that many are uncomfortable with. This book aims to change the thinking of those that may have had unpleasant experiences with selling.
The authors provide strategies to help you develop confidence, identify comfortable sales target, and communicate value. Also included are practical tips and modules for public speaking, time management, public relations, satisfaction surveys and strategic planning.
Click here to view the table of contents.
The practicePRO Lending Library is a free resource for Ontario lawyers of more than 100 books on a wide variety of law practice management related topics. You can see a full listing of our books here. You may borrow a book in person or via e-mail.
The practicePRO Library is located in our office at 250 Yonge Street, Suite 3101 in Toronto and can be visited during our regular business hours (Mon to Fri, 8:30 to 5:00). We invite you to come by anytime to peruse our selection. All titles in the practicePRO Lending Library can be shipped to Ontario lawyers at our expense, and returned at yours after three weeks.
If you would like to borrow this or any other book please email us. Most of our titles are also available from the ABA Web Store or the major booksellers here in Canada.
One of the new additions to the practicePRO Lending Library is Social Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier by Carolyn Elefant and Nicole Black.
This book addresses the legal marketing challenges and opportunities facing lawyers in the new world of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. It aims to offer a practical approach to using social media in a law practice and will help lawyers decide what programs are a good fit for them, and how they can be used effectively and ethically.
It contains screenshots of the various social media platforms, advice on best practices and ‘netiquette’, and discusses legal issues such as copyright infringment and defamation.
Click here to view the table of contents.
The practicePRO Lending Library is a free resource for Ontario lawyers of more than 100 books on a wide variety of law practice management related topics. You can see a full listing of our books here. You may borrow a book in person or via e-mail.
The practicePRO Library is located in our office at 250 Yonge Street, Suite 3101 in Toronto and can be visited during our regular business hours (Mon to Fri, 8:30 to 5:00). We invite you to come by anytime to peruse our selection. All titles in the practicePRO Lending Library can be shipped to Ontario lawyers at our expense, and returned at yours after three weeks.
If you would like to borrow this or any other book please email us. Most of our titles are also available from the ABA Web Store or the major booksellers here in Canada.
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