Features
Litigation
Recent rulings of importance to you and your practice.
Perplexing Problems Under the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act
The first part of this article discussed UTMA requirements, accounting and liability. The conclusion herein addresses attorneys' fees and sanctions.
Psychological Assessment Meets Legerdemain
The focus of this article is the attempt by proponents of drawings as a data source to develop and employ means by which attributes observed in children's drawings can be quantified.
Features
Pre-Separation Dissipation and the Marital Estate
Over a generation ago, few contested divorce actions involved claims of economic misconduct. As the current recession deepens, these claims are not only on the rise, but they appear to be the rule in many cases.
Features
Best Practices in Client Relationship Skills
There are key activities that lawyers can engage in to promote the health of existing client interactions. All of these activities can be categorized into one of three stages: 1) establishing the relationship; 2) building the relationship; and 3) proliferating the relationship.
ABA Social Network Fails to Connect
The American Bar Association has jumped on the social networking bandwagon with a site of its own, LegallyMinded. Here is the author's review of the site.
Practice Building Skills: Marketing Kryptonite That Will Overcome Attorney Objections
According to the author: Yes, you can win an argument with an attorney and get your marketing initiative approved, if you present the right data to get your point across.
Features
Client Speak: Is the Burden of AFA Here to Stay?
The recent dramatic downturn has created something relatively unknown to law firms: the "insistent buyers' market" (or "ibm"), wherein all the pent-up frustrations of the past have suddenly found a voice and now have to be confronted and no longer ignored.
Features
Media & Communications Corner: Don't Send That Release (over the Wire)
Law firms and other businesses devote a huge amount time, effort and money to creating and promoting "news" via press releases. But are they worth the time and money?
Career Journal: Reinventing the Interview
Despite their interviewing success historically, candidates for legal marketing positions are more likely to be facing a higher level of scrutiny on multiple fronts that could easily trip up an otherwise strong interviewer's performance.
Need Help?
- Prefer an IP authenticated environment? Request a transition or call 800-756-8993.
- Need other assistance? email Customer Service or call 1-877-256-2472.
MOST POPULAR STORIES
- Judge Rules Shaquille O'Neal Will Face Securities Lawsuit for Promotion, Sale of NFTsA federal district court in Miami, FL, has ruled that former National Basketball Association star Shaquille O'Neal will have to face a lawsuit over his promotion of unregistered securities in the form of cryptocurrency tokens and that he was a "seller" of these unregistered securities.Read More ›
- Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the RoughThere is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.Read More ›
- Removing Restrictive Covenants In New YorkIn Rockwell v. Despart, the New York Supreme Court, Third Department, recently revisited a recurring question: When may a landowner seek judicial removal of a covenant restricting use of her land?Read More ›
- Compliance Officers and Law Enforcement: Friends or Foes?<b><i>Part Two of a Two-Part Article</b></i><p>As we saw in Part One, regulators have recently shown a tendency to focus on compliance officers who they deem to have failed to ensure that the compliance and anti-money laundering (AML) programs that they oversee adequately prevented corporate wrongdoing, and there are several indications that regulators will continue to target compliance officers in 2018 in actions focused on Bank Secrecy Act/AML compliance.Read More ›
- Role and Responsibilities of Practice Group LeadersIdeally, the objective of defining the role and responsibilities of Practice Group Leaders should be to establish just enough structure and accountability within their respective practice group to maximize the economic potential of the firm, while institutionalizing the principles of leadership and teamwork.Read More ›