About Tim Lemieux
Tim Lemieux is the CPSR and Claims Analyst at LAWPRO. He investigates TitlePLUS title insurance claims, and analyses LAWPRO claims data to aid in the creation of the practicePRO initiative risk management presentations, articles and web content for lawyers.
Tim Lemieux's Posts
Are You Being a Lawyer or Building a Practice?
Jay Harrington, writing in Attorney at Work, describes the journey from student to lawyer as a “well-lit path”, while figuring out the direction of one’s legal career is like venturing off into uncharted territory. There can be many routes to get where you want to be, as long as you have a clear destination in… Read More »
Categories: Career ManagementHow lawyers can avoid the dangers of procrastination
Whether it’s leaving a university essay until the last minute or deciding to sort your sock drawer instead of doing your taxes, procrastination is something everyone struggles with in life. However in your law practice, the results can be more damaging. In the past five years LAWPRO has received nearly 300 claims resulting from ‘procrastination’,… Read More »
Categories: Limitations ClaimsScam calls to lawyers claiming to offer a new service from Rogers
An Ontario lawyer advised that he got a call from someone purporting to be from Rogers, inviting him to participate in a new website offered by Rogers for commercial leasing lawyers to help them increase their business. The lawyer asked him for more information, but the person insisted that he log on to a website,… Read More »
Categories: Fraud PreventionEmail scam targets firm members with access to bank accounts
A number of firms have reported a new kind of scam targeting firm staff that have access to bank accounts. The scenarios have all been slightly different, but the common aspect appears to be using legitimate email addresses of senior firm members to dupe another member of the firm staff (or other firm) into either… Read More »
Categories: Fraud PreventionProfile of an internal fraudster
According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners companies lose 5% of their annual revenues to fraud, with a median loss amount of $145,000. And law firms are not immune to this. The Lawyers Mutual of North Carolina blog has posted a “profile of a fraudster“, that can help firms learn to spot the red… Read More »
Categories: Fraud PreventionFour social media lessons for lawyers
Gabriel Chong at the Attorney At Work blog has four useful lessons for lawyers trying to incorporate social media into their practices. Lawyers are…well, lawyers, and not necessarily social media experts so these are some important things to keep in mind (here is the full blog entry) 1. Do only what you’re comfortable doing 2…. Read More »
Categories: TechnologyTime to say goodbye to an employee?
This article is by Nora Rock, corporate writer/policy analyst at LAWPRO. You’ve tried clarification, reminders, warnings, patience and tolerance, maybe even retraining. But it isn’t working, and you both know it. Firing employees is not likely a task you took into consideration when you thought about becoming a lawyer; but here you are, an employer,… Read More »
Categories: Law Practice ManagementEvaluating Online Lawyer Referral Services
Occasionally LAWPRO gets asked to give an opinion on the effectiveness or legitimacy of the various lawyer referral services that try to get people to sign up. All we can really say is we aren’t aware of any problems relating to them, and it’s up to individual lawyers to decide whether its a good use… Read More »
Categories: Career Management