What's New

• New Library books: The Lending Library has two new titles. iPad in One Hour for Lawyers will help you get up to speed and using your iPad quickly. This title focuses on functions and apps that are most useful to lawyers. And The Lawyer's Essential Guide to Writing will help you become a better legal writer of memoranda, briefs, emails and blogs.
• New Lawyer Resource page: practicePRO has created a web page aimed at newly called lawyers and law students about to be called to the Bar. www.practicepro.ca/newlawyers was recently advertised in law school yearbooks and introduces new lawyers to the wealth of practice and risk management material we have to offer.
• LSUC unbundling working group: LAWPRO has made a submission to the working group in which we express our concern that unbundled legal services will result in more claims.

Practice Aids

• 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
• ILA checklist: Have you covered all the issues you should have?
• 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

	Claims counsel share insights into communication mistakes A global perspective on mandatory professional liability insurance Lawyer incivility: The consequences Practice Tip: Beware the Ides of Rule 48 Six tech tools for improving client communication
All previous articles in our Magazine archive and topical listing page

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