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The Legal Intelligencer

Thoughts for Junior Attorneys Seeking to Build Their Practices

Many junior attorneys struggle to devote hours of work to senior attorneys and their clients while still finding ways to cultivate and secure their own clients. As attorneys on opposite ends of the experience spectrum, we dove into this familiar conundrum.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Attorney-Client Agreements Are Subject to Scrutiny

Most businesses and individuals enjoy a broad right to contract by which they are free to enter into contracts often subject only to the limitation that the contracts do not violate any existing laws or public policy.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

How Well Are Law Firms Protecting Their Digital Information?

I have been writing this monthly column for well over a decade now, and each month I have provided what I believe to be answers to questions brought into the legal realm by the ascendance of digital media and communications.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Discovery in Divorce Proceedings: Tools for the Trade

Discovery in divorce is an important tool for attorneys that are often underutilized. Practitioners overlook the discovery process and often do not know what they are looking for or how the discovery process works.
7 minute read

Law.com

5 Things You Need to Realize About Your Realization Rate

Don't ignore your realization rate, take control. Need a reason? It matters a lot to the people who determine your pay.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Under the Influence: How Social Media Can Make You the Go-To Authority

Seasoned professionals know their industry. They may even qualify as experts in their field. Then again, so can their competition. If you're a seasoned pro, how do you set yourself apart? Making the leap from industry expert to influencer can make the difference between attorney and rainmaker.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

The Marital Lifestyle, Post-Complaint Earnings and Their Effect on Alimony

The legislature added the language “with neither party having a greater entitlement to that standard of living than the other.” What does that change, in fact, mean?
9 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The Overlooked Story of Accounting Firms and ALSPs

Some things receive more attention than they probably should. The Kardashians' latest antics, Elon Musk's Twitter feed, and whether the thing making us uncomfortable this summer is the heat or the humidity—they are topics we return to again and again, at times out of habit more than anything else. Now, we can add another overly popular subject to the list: the Big Four's encroachment onto the territory of global law firms.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. High Court Alters How Objections to Jury Instructions Are Preserved

Upon Further ReviewFiling Proposed Points for Charge No Longer Suffices to Preserve Objections to Jury Instructions, Pa. Supreme Court RulesUnless…
6 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Lessons From 'My Cousin Vinny'

There is much to learn from the movie, including how to deal with a hostile witness and how to effectively examine an expert. The movie has as much potential to educate as it does to entertain.
4 minute read

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