Category: LAWPRO Magazine
TitlePLUS program update: Responding to market chill with service improvements, public relations initiatives
TitlePLUS results reflect market weakness A cautious, sometimes pessimistic mood permeated the Ontario real estate market in 2012. Sales dipped – modestly in some markets, more dramatically in others – and warnings of a more dramatic slide dominated real estate reporting for much of the year. Because title insurance sales are so closely tied to… Read More »
Categories: 2013 May - Year in Review 2012, Articles, TitlePLUSLAWPRO committed to corporate social responsibility
2012 was the first full year of LAWPRO’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program. To help familiarize our staff, the bar, and other external stakeholders with our CSR commitment, we created a Corporate Social Responsibility brochure. Please get in touch with us to request copies, available both in print and in PDF format. The LAWPRO CSR… Read More »
Categories: 2013 May - Year in Review 2012, Articles, Year in ReviewWhy the LAWPRO base premium is only the start of the story
Why is Ontario lawyers’ professional liability insurance more expensive than other provinces’? It’s a legitimate question, and easy enough to formulate. The answer is either very simple or very complicated and detailed, because it means comparing apples to oranges. The simple answer A simple answer points to the fact that a person asking the question… Read More »
Categories: 2013 May - Year in Review 2012, Articles, Insurance Business, LAWPRO policyWondering when to report that claim or potential claim? Do it now
Do you think you may have a claim to report, but are wondering about timing? There are no good reasons to delay in reporting a claim, and many excellent reasons to do so as early as possible. Under the current mandatory program of insurance for lawyers, the policy that responds is the one in force… Read More »
Categories: 2013 May - Year in Review 2012, Articles, Errors & Omissions, LAWPRO policyBe smart about spam: Use whitelisting so you don’t miss key messages
Spam is a problem that never seems to go away. email service providers are always coming up with new ways to identify suspected spam to try to keep it out of your inbox. this often involves assigning points to certain words or phrases, and enough points will get the email blocked. sometimes simply sending an… Read More »
Categories: 2013 May - Year in Review 2012, Articles, Legal Technology, Tech TipsAvoiding the unintentional expansion of retainers
Here’s the scenario: A lawyer is retained to assist a client with a tort claim and an accident benefits claim. The client, meanwhile, has been informed that the long-term disability (LTD) benefits provided by her employer’s group plan are about to be terminated. In an effort to forestall the termination of benefits, she asks the… Read More »
Categories: 2013 May - Year in Review 2012, Articles, Communications Errors, Practice TipsNew Year’s resolutions for a healthier law practice and a new you
The start of a new year is a time for self-reflection and self-improvement. Many of you will think about making changes in your personal and work lives. But while you all have good intentions, it can be difficult to break old habits, especially when you are running hard on the treadmill of a busy life… Read More »
Categories: 2012 December Resolutions, Articles, Civil Litigation, Corporate Law, Criminal Law, Family, Features, Finances, Legal Technology, Marketing, Practice Tips, Real Estate, Time Management, Wellness, Wills & EstatesNeed some 2013 resolutions for your law practice? We have some!
As you’ll learn in these pages, lasting positive change is less likely to come from radical self reinvention than from the slow and steady accretion of many positive “baby steps”. Would you like your practice to be more efficient, more profitable, more claim-proof, and more personally rewarding? Who wouldn’t? But who has the time to… Read More »
Categories: 2012 December Resolutions, Articles, EditorialsE&O and R&R: Insurance planning for retirement
When looking forward to your retirement it’s important to have an idea of what liabilities and activities from your practice will follow you. It’s false comfort to think that just because a claim wasn’t brought prior to retirement means one won’t appear in the future or that you can rely on the coverage that was… Read More »
Categories: 2012 December Resolutions, Articles, Errors & Omissions, LAWPRO policyHow the real estate bar entered the insurance business, or what happens when a lawyer is also an insurance intermediary
Many of us deal with licensed insurance agents or registered brokers every year to purchase coverage, whether life, auto or home policies. When someone in Ontario wishes to obtain title insurance, the real estate lawyer effectively functions as insurance intermediary (although not technically an agent or a broker). Lest anyone think there is anything improper… Read More »
Categories: 2012 December Resolutions, Insurance Business, Real Estate, Title insurance, TitlePLUS