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The Main Event: Three Important Calendar Management Tips for Lawyers

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

Most attorneys should probably be ruled by their calendars, with law practices running on deadlines. That’s especially true for litigation firms, which take direction from court rules and judges about when and how things get done. This will require you to ‘phase’ the project = break it down step-by-step, and create reminders.

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Ethics Reminders for Lawyers Texting Clients

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Answer: In previous articles, I’ve focused on ways to successfully use email — “the grand champion of modern-day communication” – as well as try to get lawyers to ditch email for more secure client engagement (read: client portals). Four Ethics Considerations for Lawyers Texting Clients. Confidentiality. Communication. Documentation.

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Tackling Inefficient Time Management At Your Law Firm

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For instance, a junior lawyer might be overloaded with multiple tasks, such as drafting legal briefs and preparing for court hearings, with no clear system to manage these tasks or track their progress. Calendar Management Scheduling is often handled individually, with each lawyer managing their own calendar.

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Next-Gen Bar Exam That Truly Tests Daily Practice Skills Must Include Technology

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“Professed technological incompetence is not an excuse for discovery misconduct” is not a court holding you want to see (James v. In today’s legal profession, lawyers must be technologically competent. This is reinforced by ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.1 CV 8931-VCL, 2014 WL 6845560 (Del. 5, 2014)).

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Not Again! Two More Cases, Just this Week, of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions

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For all the discussion of how generative AI will impact the legal profession, maybe one answer is that it will weed out the lazy and incompetent lawyers. By now, in the wake of several cases in which lawyers have found themselves in hot water by citing hallucinated cases generated by ChatGPT, most notoriously Mata v. XYZ Corporation.

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Plagiarism Police come for Winston & Strawn

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Winston Strawn Plagiarism Complaint Winston Strawn Plagiarism Attachments I recall being asked to draft my first patent infringement complaint back in early 2003 – a few months after graduating from law school. The case explains that the district court was suspicious of the brief filed because it was “of unusually high quality.”

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Leaving Your Firm? Aim for a Joint Notice to Clients

Attorney at Work

489, it should have written policies to help facilitate the departure of lawyers and the transition of clients. Some jurisdictions establish a more bright-line rule requiring notice to the organization before communication with clients. For instance, Ohio Supreme Court Ethics Op. Rule of Prof. Conduct 4-5.8(c)(1)

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