Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

QUESTION: I’m a solo practitioner with a general practice handling everything from real estate transactions to family law. While most of my billing comes from traditional hourly rates for matters, I have always used flat fees for certain client demands such as residential real estate transactions and basic estate planning.

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Lawfecta

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

There’s a new way to practice law, and it’s quickly becoming a hot trend, particularly for solo attorneys and small legal practices. It’s known as the virtual law firm. As a solo attorney or small legal firm, you need to adopt as many strategies as you can to attract, engage, and retain clients.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 25, 2024

You don’t know if they have a specific trial presentation software either, so it really wouldn’t be a good use of your time to go out and try to learn all of these different case-specific or firm-specific software products when you might have to learn a completely different application. But it all has to come into that funnel.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 24, 2023

They have deadlines they are not going to risk missing just because the two of you set a time to meet so she could show you how to put together a deposition summary – and now she doesn’t have the time. If you’re a new real estate paralegal who found a course on big commercial real estate closings, you can do the same thing.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 24, 2023

They have deadlines they are not going to risk missing just because the two of you set a time to meet so she could show you how to put together a deposition summary – and now she doesn’t have the time. If you’re a new real estate paralegal who found a course on big commercial real estate closings, you can do the same thing.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

They have deadlines they are not going to risk missing just because the two of you set a time to meet so she could show you how to put together a deposition summary – and now she doesn’t have the time. If you’re a new real estate paralegal who found a course on big commercial real estate closings, you can do the same thing.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 17, 2023

Technology is an integral part of any business, including law firms and legal departments. Even if you don’t work at a firm specializing in technology, you will still use computers and software daily. Before that, Cara also gained experience working in Real Estate, Civil, Criminal, and Collections Law.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

They could be at pre-trial at deposition designations, and they really need some useful tips and strategies for how to streamline that process and reduce those pain points using Opus 2, so that’s probably part of my favorite time of the day. Whether you’re a real estate paralegal, litigation paralegal, or corporate paralegal.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 3, 2023

One of the things that I teach in the Litigation Boot Camp is to get your eyes on everything that comes in on your cases so that you know there’s a deposition scheduled next month. I’ll talk litigation, but you could use this for any of your files, your transactions, real estate closings, etc.

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LexBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The HUD-1 form, often also referred to as a “ Settlement Statement ”, a “ Closing Statement ”, “ Settlement Sheet ”, combination of the terms or even just “ HUD ” is a document used when a borrower is lent funds to purchase real estate. Deposits reserved with the lender.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In college, I thought I’d end up doing something related with real estate. However, by the time I graduated from law school, I was already gravitating toward workers’ compensation. I spent the first five years after law school representing insurance companies, but did not find the work rewarding — at all.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JUNE 8, 2023

I’d left the firm to start my company in 2010. Back then, I used to do a lot of live training inside law firms. An Atlanta firm hired me to come teach the Billable Hour Boot Camp. You haven’t been getting ready for depositions, or getting ready for trial. It’s Okay To Ask For Help Fast-forward to 2013 or 14.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 3, 2023

Do you envision law firms becoming less dependent on newer attorneys and legal assistants as ChatGPT and its successors mature? Much of the work handled by junior associates consists of factual and legal research to identify the facts and relevant law. AP: Not really. The results were, as he put it, “not bad.”

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LawTechnologyToday

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

We have a discovery schedule requiring depositions to be completed by next week, however, we are requesting an adjournment of one month due to an illness. Even if it is objected to by your adversary, the court will see it and it will still be helpful to visualize what the parties testified to in a deposition.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 18, 2023

Now I’m not the right person to answer that question because the only time that I contemplated going to law school was when I was in a job that I didn’t like. I started the process, then went to work for a law firm and a team of lawyers that had me sitting second chair at trials, and they paid me very well.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Calendar any hearing you are copied on an email, and calendar any court or deposition date you find on pleadings. Noor Haleem is a litigation paralegal at a real estate, bankruptcy, family, and business litigation firm. Noor worked as a marketing assistant and funding coordinator for several different law firms.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 9, 2022

More technology is making its way into the courtroom, and it appears that document review tools are becoming more of the norm in law firms for litigation matters but it has been, and still is, a slow-moving process. The rest of the respondents (33%) are at firms with more than 50 attorneys (13% have more than 500 attorneys).

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MyCase

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

2020 was perhaps one of the most disruptive years for law firms in recent history. And while many firms struggled to stay afloat, others adapted with ease in ways that all practices can replicate. 13:17 – How Law Firms Are Coping With Change. 27:22 – Marketing MUSTS for Your Firm Post-Pandemic.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 13, 2023

By doing that, I knew there was a deposition next month that I could start preparing for this month. If you work at a law firm, being more productive will also get you more billable hours. A real estate paralegal has a closing checklist for the different types of closings that they’re working on. That’s great.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

AltFee Elevator Pitch: AltFee revolutionizes law firm pricing by offering a foundation for alternative fee structures. This system empowers firms to precisely assess and assign value to projects, vital in a landscape where AI/efficiency gains drastically shorten task timelines. What makes you unique or innovative? and Beagle.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Below is my column on Fox.com on the demand for roughly a $455 million dollar deposit or equivalent bond for Donald Trump to be able to seek appellate review of the recent judgment against him. The combination of the fine and the deposit rule highlight the confiscatory elements of this judgment. The addition of the recent $83.3

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