There are multiple scenarios whereby fraudsters will attempt to have you wire funds to a different account than the one that you had intended to fund. Unfortunately, some of those attempts are successful. LAWPRO has received such claims and heard of many others. Here are some tips to assist you if such a fraud happens… Read More »
Categories: Fraud PreventionThe North Carolina State Bar sent out a warning to its members to beware of changes in payment instructions in real estate transactions. Scammers there hacked or faked the accounts of realtors and sent altered wiring instructions. They could also try to impersonate clients or other firms. (In a previous post about fake emails from… Read More »
Categories: Fraud PreventionTo meet a minimum billable hour requirement of 1800 to 2000 hours a lawyer needs to be at work approximately 9.7 hours a day (while losing 2 hours of that to non-billable tasks). That is according to Jacqueline Vinaccia in her article Capture More Billable Time and Stress Less on the AttorneyAtWork blog. Keeping track… Read More »
Categories: Law Practice ManagementA lawyer that is low on resilience is thin-skinned, defensive, and easily wounded by criticism. Even small things, such as a client or a lawyer not returning his call, will offend him. The quote above is from LAWPRO’s recent post on resilience as a part of the lawyer personality. That post explains that resilience is… Read More »
Categories: Wellness and BalanceThis is the text of an alert sent by LAWPRO to all Ontario lawyers on April 29, 2015. LAWPRO is warning Ontario real estate lawyers to be on the alert for risky vendor takeback mortgage transactions, some of which may be closing this week. There is a significant potential claims risk for lawyers involved in… Read More »
Categories: Real EstateWith such a large amount of claims prevention information availalable in LAWPRO Magazine articles and practicePRO resources, we had the idea to create simple fact sheets that CPD providers and others could use in developing their program material for specific areas of law. The latest in our series of “malpractice claims fact sheets” covers wills… Read More »
Categories: Wills & EstatesThis is the text of an alert sent to real estate lawyers in the Barrie and Collingwood areas on April 24, 2015. An updated alert was sent to all lawyers on April 29, 2015. Thanks to calls from lawyers and an email warning sent by one of the county law associations, LAWPRO has become aware… Read More »
Categories: Real EstateThe last trait we look at in this series is resilience. A lawyer high in resilience is receptive to criticism and feedback and is not defensive. He is less likely to take criticism personally and is better at focusing on accomplishing the task at hand. If he suffers a loss or is rejected, he will… Read More »
Categories: Career Management, Law Practice Management, Risk Management StrategiesJay 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 »
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