What's New

• New Member Assistance Plan (MAP) from Homewood Human Solutions: the Law Society of Upper Canada and LAWPRO have chosen Homewood Human Solutions as the provider for a new Member Assistance Plan for Ontario lawyers, law students, and licensed paralegals. For details, see this announcement from Homewood.
• Checklists page: We have put all the practicePRO checklists, including the new Domestic Contract Matter Toolkit and Commercial Transactions checklist in one convenient location.
• New Library books: The Lending Library has two new titles. Cloud Computing for Lawyers will help you decide if moving your firm technology to "the cloud" is the right way to go, and features discussions of security and ethical issues to consider and an overview of the programs currently available. Electronic Discovery for Small Cases offers effective, budget-friendly solutions for collecting, viewing, and analyzing electronic evidence for firms with small technology budgets or for cases with only a limited amount of e-discovery required.

Practice Aids

• Checklists page: Domestic matter toolkit, ILA, and more
• Dealing with difficult judges: Practical advice from Justice Carole Curtis
• Managing a Better Professional Services Firm: Learn how to better communicate with and serve your clients
• Retainer precedents: Start off on the right foot
• Difficult Clients: How to put yourself in control

... plus many more articles, checklists and precedents for dealing with a wide variety of practice management issues.

For a full list of all that practicePRO has to offer download our Guide to Resources.

LawPRO Magazine

E & O program: Coverage summary; service report; claims for 2012 top $100M; claims management track record Financial results explained: A guide to our Statements of Income Insurance biz: Why the LAWPRO base premium is only the start of the story: A tentative analytical model brings insight Errors & Omissions: Wondering when to report that claim? Do it now; How to report -- and how not to report -- a claim to LAWPRO Tech tip: Be smart about spam: Use whitelisting so you don't miss key messages

All previous articles in our Magazine archive and topical listing page

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