Tue.Oct 06, 2020

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Off Day: Lawyers Never Stop Working, But They Should

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

Many people have a vision of white color workers sitting in comfortable office spaces. when they’re not golfing. Small business owners cry foul. The fact of the matter is that most small business owners are working all the time: at night, before dawn, on the weekends. Running a business is hard. But, eventually, everybody runs down. Either you give yourself time and space, or your body forces you into it.

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How do we make a good taxonomy of legal problems?

Open Law Lab

I have been working on the giant effort to make a comprehensive, user-centered taxonomy of legal issues that people have in the US. It’s called LIST, Legal Issues Taxonomy, and up in its growing glory at the site [link]. Note: this new taxonomy was previously called National Subject Matter Index v2 (NSMIv2), since it’s built from the early-2000s work from legal aid groups to make standard codes for their work, called the National Subject Matter Index (NSMI v1).

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Best Practices for Working with a Process Server

NCBA

By Tracker Legal Services What Do Process Servers Do? Process servers are an important part of the legal process. Hiring an experienced process server can mean the difference between having your matter heard or having your matter continued or dismissed. In some situations, process servers provide defendants with notice of a pending lawsuit and uphold […].