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How to Draft Bills Clients Rush to Pay, 3rd Edition
Mark Robertson and J. Harris Morgan, 2018 Since the publication of the second edition of How to Draft Bills Clients Rush to Pay, new technologies have emerged in timekeeping and billing to help you more easily prepare bills that are clear and informative to your client. This new edition and expanded edition of a practice-proven… Read More »
Categories: Book, Finances, Solo and Small FirmHow Good Lawyers Survive Bad Times
Sharon D. Nelson, James A. Calloway & Ross L. Kodner, published 2009, 230 pages Worried about the economy? Are you a lawyer out of work? Are you afraid you will be laid off? Are you struggling to manage your firm through a down economy? In a single volume, How Good Lawyers Survive Bad Times, will… Read More »
Categories: Book, Finances, Legal Careers, Marketing, Solo and Small FirmCompensation Plans for Law Firms, 6th Edition
Edited by James D. Cotterman, Altman Weil, Inc., published 2015, 186 pages The revised Sixth Edition of Compensation Plans for Law Firms, provides complete and systematic guidance on how to establish a fair and competitive compensation program for your firm. The book includes workable approaches for compensating partners and associates, as well as other contributors… Read More »
Categories: Book, Finances, Firm ManagementCollecting Your Fee: Getting Paid from Intake to Invoice
Edward Poll, Published 2002, 166 pages with CD-ROM This practical and user-friendly guide provides you with proven strategies and sound advice that will make the process of collecting your fees simpler, easier, and more effective! This handy resource provides you with the framework around which to structure your collection efforts. You’ll learn how you can… Read More »
Categories: Book, FinancesUsing Title Insurance Safely Checklist
Title insurance plays an important role in real estate transactions. each transaction presents a different set of circumstances and risks. The Using Title Insurance Safely checklist (English) (Francais) keeps you on top of the variety of issues to consider when your are obtaining a title insurance policy for your client. The checklist provides further details… Read More »
Categories: Checklist, Title insuranceAre individuals acting as general counsel to their law firms required to have LAWPRO insurance?
While general counsel have been commonplace in corporate settings for years, it is now becoming more common for law firms to have someone working in a “general counsel” capacity. There is a wide variety in the types of work done by law firm general counsel. Among other things, it can involve advice on human resources… Read More »
Categories: 2017 May - 2016 Annual Review, Articles, FAQs, LAWPRO policyWellness
Lawyers are exposed to high levels of stress on a daily basis. In the long term, stress can drive people to use, misuse or even become addicted to alcohol or legal/illegal drugs, or to experience challenges to physical or mental health. Stress and the problems it creates are contributing factors in many LAWPRO claims. LAWPRO… Read More »
Categories: WellnessContact
Contact the PracticePRO Program We’d like to hear your comments, suggestions and questions at [email protected] or 1-800-410-1013. Please note that if you need advice on a claim or potential claim you must provide notice of a claim so one of our claims counsel can advise you) Additional LAWPRO contact information is available on the LAWPRO… Read More »
Categories: Access to JusticeAbout
“Where claims happen, why claims happen, and the steps that can be taken to avoid them” The PracticePRO program provides risk management, claims prevention and law practice management information to Ontario lawyers. Its resources, precedents and checklists are intended to help Ontario lawyers take proactive steps to avoid legal malpractice claims and grow successful and… Read More »
Categories: Access to JusticeDoes a big claim scare you?
Excess insurance from LawPRO can give you peace of mind 1. What is excess coverage? Excess coverage is insurance that covers (for eligible claims) losses in excess of those covered under Ontario lawyers’ mandatory professional indemnity coverage, up to a limit chosen by the insured. Unlike the primary layer of coverage, under which the lawyer… Read More »
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