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Trying Times: Fake your trial experience to attract clients
The general public and nearly all clients — even major clients with in-house counsel and lots of client-side litigation experience — assume that lawyers who claim to be litigators or trial lawyers must...
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Prix Fixe: Setting standard legal fees is illegal price fixing
While there are other stories about the acceptance of the billable hour as a de facto standard for legal billing, this is one of the more entertaining I have seen. This is the story of how the US...
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Puffing Professionals: Law firm immune for false statements to client
Here’s an example of how the legal system, through gatekeeping judges, seems to protect its own — lawyers. There are many hurdles, some unique to lawyers, protecting lawyers from the consequences of...
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Big Demand, Short Supply: There’s always a shortage of good, cheap lawyers
In November 2015, The Washington Post ran an op-ed piece by a couple of Georgetown Law deans titled “Too many lawyers? Not in D.C.” Their point was that, for people living on the economic edge, there...
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Human Experimentation: Lawyers may “moonlight” outside expertise
Most lawyers must have a bachelor’s degree (in any subject), plus an advanced degree from an accredited law school (usually a Juris Doctor, with some exceptions), then they must satisfy various state...
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Two Wrongs Dept.: Keep calm & carry on
From time to time even the best lawyers and law firms are accused of legal malpractice. Sometimes that idea comes from the client trying to explain a disappointing result. Sometimes things happen —...
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Sending Blind: NY Bar addresses risks of copying clients with emails
When I started out, the high tech way for lawyers to communication was by fax — a step up from mail or phone. Anything within 30 or 40 miles might be reached by couriers — a business model that’s long...
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User Beware: Online lawyer directories rarely reliable
We’re still living in the first “internet” age, when a couple of dropouts with some cash from their parents can “launch” a miniature business based on some basic technology, usually with some...
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State Legal Lotteries: States hire private firms for gigantic contingent fees
Here’s a report about a new law in West Virginia, similar to less than half the states, to shine a light on the mysterious, fabulously expensive practice of government agencies contracting to hire...
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Zero Impact Lawyering: Semi-retired lawyer does 100% pro bono
Our legal system is supposed to dispense fair justice for all, but it does not. There are many flaws in the system, some of which are built in — human beings are not perfect — and others are man-made...
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