All LAWPRO Magazine Articles
2024 Insurance Isssue 2025:
2024 June - Time for Tomorrow:
- Questions and answers about the changing practice of wills & estates law
- Why have claims from inadequate investigation risen almost 300% since 1998?
- Retirement, succession, and planning for the unplanned exit
- Facing stress with mindfulness and being in the moment
- The case of the delayed will
- Called to the Bar? Time to think about insurance
- Excess: No time like the present
- TitlePLUS: If you have a claim reporting it quickly makes a real difference
- Six time-saving Office 365 tips
2024 April - Year in Review 2023:
2024 March - The Confidence Client:
2023 October - Insurance Issue 2024:
2023 May - Year in Review 2022:
2022 October - Insurance Issue 2023:
2022 June - After Covid 19:
- Cultivate Your Innovation Mindsets to Build Your Future Practice Today
- Working together remotely: A real life conversation about managing teams through the “new normal”
- TitlePLUS: A living example of innovation of LAWPRO
- Persistence and Precision Bring Long Needed Changes to the Planning Act
- The Top 10 Changes to the Planning Act You Need to Know About and Why
- 10 tips to adapt to the new contingency fee regime
- Recent changes to wills, powers of attorney and succession law
- You transferred funds to the wrong account – what now?
- Tips for improving your email habits
- Hot real estate market? Excess coverage protects your practice as property values soar?
2022 April - Annual Report 2021:
2021 October – Insurance Issue 2022:
2021 April – 2020 Year in Review:
2020 October – Insurance Issue 2021:
2020 April - 2019 Year in Review:
2020 January - Finding Your Way: Finding Your Way
- Editorial: Help is available
- Understanding mental health in the legal profession
- Using the MAP to find a healthier way
- Warning signs: Why it’s important for lawyers and firms to be proactive about mental health
- Puttıng the fire out: Dealing with the stress of a malpractice claim
- What are my insurance options if I need to take a temporary leave of absence from practice?
- Do your firm’s marketing practices expose you to vicarious liability?
- Navigating the LAT Regime – Traps for unfamiliar lawyers
- Run-Off coverage: The coverage you have after you leave practice
- Did you know that some title insurers include exceptions to fraud coverage for private lender transactions where the mortgage funds are not paid to acceptable parties?
- Paying attention to the fraud behind the curtain
- Tools for a strong foundation: Resources every real estate lawyer should know about
- Book review: A Lawyer’s Guide to Healing
2019 September - Insurance Issue: Your 2020 program
2019 May - 2018 Year in review:
- Editorial: A careful balance
- 2018 Financial results explained
- E&O program review: Risk in the balance
- Ensuring good services with good service
- Repairs: The best defence is ensuring a defence isn’t needed
- Defences: Standing up and stepping in for licensees
- There’s more to the TitlePLUS program than meets the eye
- Bringing our corporate responsibility to life
New Lawyer Issue:
- Life after graduation: An article about articles
- Making technology work for you, and not the other way around
- Legal podcasts: Because you can’t review a brief while commuting
- Get your law practice off to the best possible start
- What I love about being a lawyer: Practitioners in their own words
- The Member Assistance Program
- LAWPRO is not like your auto insurer
- What new lawyers need to know about LAWPRO’s mandatory professional liability insurance
- Common practice pitfalls: And how to avoid them
- Student to lawyer: Twenty tips for a successful transition
- Wire Fraud Scams on the Rise: 5 Tips to Reduce Your Risk
- Find a mentor
- Taking the gloom out of zoom: Ten teleconferencing tips
- How modern lawyers are built from many pieces
- A place for every email and every email in its place: Improving your inbox organization
- Phishing scams: Be the one that got away
- Communicating like its 1876: The continuing importance of telephone skills for lawyers
- Planning to do real estate work? A primer on title insurance and the TitlePLUS program
- It takes a village to build a lawyer: The importance of mentors in your legal career (2019)
- The First Timer’s Going to Court Cheat Sheet
- Essential LinkedIn dos and don’ts for law students
- How would you answer these job interview questions?
- New lawyer cyber dangers and how to avoid them
- What I wish I knew in law school
- Job market scoop: What do law firms look for?
- Stress management for law students (2016)
- Is this the job you want? How to find the right fit – and then sell yourself in the interview (2015)
- Why I chose a career before law school (2014)
2018 September - Insurance Issue 2019: Your 2019 program
- Quick summary of 2019 policy and key dates
- Your 2019 program: Stable premiums, reliable insurance
- Frequently asked questions regarding renewing your coverage
- 2019 insurance coverage for lawyers in private practice, sole practitioners and lawyers in association or partnership
- 2019 insurance coverage for exempt lawyers
2018 May Year in Review 2017: 2017 Year in Review
- Editorial: Retiring President & CEO
- Editorial: Incoming President & CEO
- 2017 Annual Review: Financial Results Explained
- 2017 Annual Review: Coverage
- Repairs: Putting Things Right For Our Insureds in 2017
- In Defence of Our Insureds in 2017
- practicePRO Program: 2017 Year at a Glance
- Everything old is new again: Will the return of a broader rent control regime haunt the Ontario real estate bar?
- 2017 Annual Review: TitlePLUS Program
- 2017 Annual Review: Corporate Social Responsibility Comes Into Its Own
2018 Student Issue 6: Unbox your career potential
- LAWPRO is not like your auto insurer
- Common practice pitfalls and how to avoid them (2018 edition)
- What new lawyers need to know about LAWPRO’s mandatory professional liability insurance (2018 edition)
- Happier where you are, or getting to a better place (2018)
- The view from here: An interview with articling and LPP students (2018 edition)
- Student to lawyer: 20 tips for a smooth transition (2018 edition)
- Where to look for help
- New lawyer cyber dangers and how to avoid them
- Li Cheng on TitlePLUS title insurance, RealtiWeb, and being a new lawyer
2018 February Top Legal Disruptions: The legal profession is in the midst of significant change, and is headed into a period where there will be even greater change.
- Will disruptions make us better?
- What is blockchain?
- Perspectives on the future of law – How the profession should respond to major disruptions
- Artificial intelligence: What is AI and will it really replace lawyers?
- Thinking of virtual GC work? Understand your coverage needs
- Ideas for rethinking your law practice
- LAWPRO is not like your auto insurer: Dispelling common myths about your insurance coverage
- Why Excess insurance? Celebrating 20 years of the Excess program
- Ending well means starting right: The family law intake process
- Does your firm need cybercrime insurance?
- Coping with changes outside your control
- How to safely put your data in the cloud
- Civil litigation claims: What we saw in 2017
- Recognizing the red flags of real estate scams involving corporate identity theft
- Cybersecurity for the home and office
- Make sure clients aren’t caught off guard by the Rental Fairness Act
2017 September - Insurance Issue 2018:
2017 August Managing Change: Managing Change
- The amorphous now
- The graceful exit: Leaving practice on a high note
- Reflections on technology changes in real estate practice
- Litigation claims on the rise
- Commercial title insurance: What you need to know
- practicePRO.ca: Time for a new look
- Don’t let claims follow you into retirement
- “I will be out of the office…forever” and I don’t want to deal with claims
- The mysterious magic of routines
- Outsourcing your law firm’s cybersecurity
- Retirement, identity, and mental health: It’s an adjustment
- Book review – The Lawyer’s Guide to Succession Planning
2017 May - 2016 Annual Review:
- Weaving solutions to complex problems
- Financial results explained
- E&O Program: Claims report
- Coverage: Premium remains stable in 2016
- Answering your complex coverage questions
- Repairing errors to head off claims
- Standing up for lawyers
- Are individuals acting as general counsel to their law firms required to have LAWPRO insurance?
- Let’s celebrate! The TitlePLUS program’s 20th anniversary
- It’s more than just business – Corporate social responsibility
2017 February Neuroscience:
- Does a big claim scare you?
- Are you a Maximizer or a Satisficer? How to make happier choices
- Does my LawPRO insurance cover assumed risks?
- 5 year rolling administrative dismissal date: Rule 48 after January 1, 2017
- It’s easier than ever to jump into Twitter
- Editorial: Who or what is really making our decisions?
- Reduce the distraction from the casino in your pocket
- Putting your best brain forward
- The future of law: Why the real estate lawyer is the quarterback of the real estate deal
- Reduce communication-related claims by understanding cognitive bias
- Locked Down: Practical Information Security for Lawyers, 2nd Edition
- Understand how changing your practice status affects your insurance needs
2017 Student Issue No 5: Not your mother's law career
- How would you answer these job interview questions?
- Not your mother’s law career
- Student to lawyer: 20 tips for a successful transition
- Marketing basics
- Artificial intelligence and the “self-driving” lawyer
- Common practice pitfalls: How to avoid them
- What I wish I knew in law school
- What new lawyers need to know about LawPRO’s mandatory professional liability insurance
- LinkedIn dos and don’ts for law students
- Feeling the pressure?
2016 October - Insurance Issue 2017: Program changes for 2017
2016 September A2J: Unlocking Access to Justıce
- Being part of the collaboration
- What’s my coverage when working pro bono?
- So you want to start an A2J initiative? Here’s what you need to know about insurance
- Artificial intelligence and the “self-driving” lawyer
- Limited scope representation: With the right safeguards, possibilities abound
- Alternative fee arrangements in litigation
- Lawyers: (Safely) make your own dent in the affordability barrier
- Does your firm need to consider Excess insurance?
- TitlePLUS: A conversation with our consultants
- Pre-2012 matters not set down will be automatically dismissed January 1, 2017
- Book Review: The Future of the Professions by Mark Susskind
- Let technology be your path to wellness
- Social media profile: Jordan S. Halpern
2016 May - Year in Review 2015: Stable. Advice. Trustworthy. Security. Professional. Coverage.
- Stable. Advice. Trustworthy. Security. Professional. Coverage.
- 2015 financial results explained
- Claims report: Projected claims costs for 2015 lower than expected, but time management challenges loom
- LAWPRO coverage subject to continual review
- Service: Streamlined and responsive
- LAWPRO repairs in 2015: Resuscitating dismissed actions
- LAWPRO defends its insureds in 2015
- The practicePRO initiative: Helping your practice run in high gear
- Know your coverage limits
- TitlePLUS program update: We’re listening
- An active corporate citizen
2016 Student Issue 4: Moving into practice
- Job market scoop: What do law firms look for?
- Lessons I learned while articling
- Resolve to get your law practice off to the best possible start
- Sample interview questions
- Student to lawyer: 20 tips for a smooth transition
- LAWPRO’s best claims prevention tools and resources
- Common practice pitfalls: How to avoid them
- New lawyer cyber dangers and how to avoid them
- Stress management for law students (2016)
2016 January Indigenous: Serving indigenous clients
- Towards a new understanding
- Providing high quality service to Indigenous clients
- Potential claims related to serving Indigenous clients
- Four things that can lead to a denial of coverage under your LAWPRO policy
- Managing risk: Who pays for crime?
- 10 myths about the TitlePLUS program: What you need to know
- The clock is ticking on Rule 48 dismissals
- Dealing with a self-represented litigant who really needs legal advice
- OHIP subrogated claims
- Applying old case law to the new Rule 48.14
- Financial success and work satisfaction – the perfect combination
- Don’t take the bait on a spear phishing attack
- Danger: When a hacker emails you instructions in the name of your client
2015 September - Insurance Issue 2016: 2016: Base premium holds steady
- Rule 48.14 Transition Toolkit helps you prevent administrative dismissal of actions
- 2016 coverage for lawyers in private practice
- 2016 coverage for exempt lawyers
- 2016: Base premium holds steady; REPCO reduced
- REPCO reduction reflects commitment to risk-rating
- Get proof of coverage with a click of your mouse
2015 September Blue Sky: Finding your blue sky
- The day-to-day stresses and challenges of being a lawyer
- Self-assessment: do I need help?
- How unhealthy lawyers affect client service
- Reading the signs: Stepping in when a colleague needs help
- Being happier where you are, or getting to a better place
- Find your blue sky
- Protecting the team – A firm’s most valuable asset
- Taking parental leave? You have options
- Don’t worry about minor differences in title insurance policy terms – if you choose the right policy
- 10 tips to better manage your inbox
- Don’t slip down that slope! Don’t let personal issues lead you to bend the rules
- Access to justice: Limited scope representation
- Book reviews: Two books for better health
- Who needs resilience?
2015 May - Review of 2014: Annual Review
- Stop. Look. Listen.
- 2014 financial results explained
- 2014 claims report
- Advocating for lawyers while controlling claims costs
- LAWPRO evolves in step with the profession
- Two way communication for better customer service
- LAWPRO defends lawyers: Opposing inappropriate expansion of lawyer’s scope of responsibility
- Five ways to boost your chances of a successful repair
- practicePRO program grows in effectiveness and reach
- Title insurance that is meeting market demands
- Making intentions real – LAWPRO Corporate Social Responsibility commitment
2015 Student Issue 3: Student to lawyer: 20 tips for a successful transition
- Student to lawyer: 20 Tips for a smooth transition from student to lawyer
- Is this the job you want? How to find the right fit – and then sell yourself in the interview (2015)
- What new lawyers need to know about LAWPRO’s mandatory professional liability insurance
- What I wish I knew in law school
- Essential LinkedIn dos and don’ts for law students
- Feeling the pressure?
- Impressions of a Law Practice Program student (2015)
2015 February - LAWPRO 20th: 20 years of E&O insurance
- Risk management strategies to reduce your risk of a claim under the new Rule 48.14
- From crisis to innovation: 20 years of LAWPRO professional liability insurance
- 20 years of LAWPRO leading cases
- 20 ways to improve the finances of your practice
- Don’t get duped: 20 red flags of bad cheque fraud you should recognize
- Our history shapes our future
- Demystifying condominiums with better communication
- How simple mistakes can lead to large claims
- Would you get caught in a trust vs. gift dispute when handling purchase funds?
2014 October - Insurance Issue 2015: 2015: Fifth year of premium stability
- 2015 coverage for lawyers in private practice
- 2015 insurance coverage for exempt lawyers
- Are you covered for a big claim? Consider LAWPRO Excess Insurance
- 2015: Fifth year of premium stability
- Exemption eligibility for “employed” lawyers
- Amendments to Rule 48 bring major changes to administrative dismissals
2014 September Diversity: The changing face of the profession
- Past 40 years marked by a changing mix of lawyers
- Cultural competence: An essential skill in an increasingly diverse world
- Paths to success: As varied as the lawyers who follow them
- Manage malpractice risk by recognizing cultural diversity
- What does diversity mean for our profession?
- Does title insurance bring benefits to the primary professional liability program?
- Untangling the myths of Excess insurance
- Title insurance policies are like a box of chocolates – No two policies are the same
- Does your firm have a social media policy?
- Warning: Insurers can ‘contract out’ of the Limitations Act, 2002 in ‘non-consumer’ policies
- When waiving a search comes back to haunt you
- Subdivision control under the Planning Act: What do you need to know?
- Tools and strategies for lawyers with vision impairments
- Short reads for better practice management
2014 June - Year in Review 2013: 2013 Annual Review
- How do you prepare for the unknown?
- 2013 financial results explained
- Premium stability is the result of nimble adjustments
- Recoveries and repairs: 2013 review
- TitlePLUS® program update
- Making corporate social responsibility part of every work day
- Malpractice insurance in foreign jurisdictions: An update
- Is there a deductible for claims under my Run-Off coverage?
- Computers running Windows XP SP3 or Office 2003 must be updated immediately
- Teraview tip: Is searching by municipal address getting you the right property?
- Feeling the pressure?
- Supplement: Endorsements in Schmitz v. Lombard General Insurance Co
2014 Student Issue 2: Moving into practice
- Job market scoop: What do law firms look for?
- Do you have what it takes to be a sole practitioner?
- What I wish I knew in law school (2014)
- Resolve to get your practice off to the best possible start
- What new lawyers need to know about LAWPRO’s mandatory professional liability insurance
- Why I chose a career before law school (2014)
- The dangers of social networking and how to avoid them
- Student to lawyer: 20 tips for a smooth transition
- Stress management for law students (from a recent grad!)
2013 December Cybercrime: Cybercrime and law firms
- Protecting yourself from cybercrime dangers: The steps you need to take
- The LAWPRO $250,000 cybercrime coverage: What it covers and why
- Cyber risk insurance options: Do you have the coverage you need?
- Be ready with an incident response plan
- Interesting times (and cybercrimes) call for active risk reduction efforts, not just insurance coverage
- LAWPRO has a corporate LinkedIn page. Does your firm?
- Keeping your passwords strong and secure
- Would you take the bait in a phishing scam?
- Draw clients a roadmap to avoid communication claims
- Book review: The ABA Cybersecurity Handbook
- Cybercrime and law firms: The risks and dangers are real
2013 October - Insurance Issue 2014: 2014 LAWPRO policy responds to changes in the profession and related risks
2013 September practicePRO 15th: practicePRO: 15 years of claims prevention
- The practicePRO program: looking back on what has and hasn’t changed in the first 15 years
- The evolving face of risk management – practicePRO: The next 15 years
- Could this happen to you? Getting duped on a bad cheque scam
- The future of law: The challenges and opportunities of practising law in a global village
- Happy birthday, practicePRO
- What does your malpractice policy cover? Individual lawyers or the law firm?
- Excess insurance offers peace of mind to lawyers and law firms
- Making the application process easier and quicker: Streamlined TitlePLUS underwriting for many residential properties over $1 million
- The TitlePLUS conundrum: Can you help?
- Mental illness and lawyers: Moving from stigma to solutions
- Our social media platforms through the ages
- The practicePRO program: Looking back on what has and hasn’t changed in the first 15 years
- Know how administrative dismissal claims happen, and take 8 steps to immunize yourself against them
- Supplement: Plaintiff counsel beware – It’s now easier to dismiss an action for delay
- 15 tips for preventing identity theft and online fraud
- Steer clear of real estate claims by asking these five questions on every deal
- Book reviews: iPad for Litigators and Google Gmail and Calendar in One Hour for Lawyers
2013 May - Year in Review 2012: 2012 Annual Review
- A desire for deluxe car service at a compact car price: What is LAWPRO to do?
- Same base premium…but Ontario lawyers saved $5 million in 2012. How?
- 2012 financial results explained
- Large or small: Every recovery counts
- LAWPRO works with lawyers to correct errors and minimize losses
- Knowing when to take a stand: LAWPRO defends its insureds in 2012
- TitlePLUS program update: Responding to market chill with service improvements, public relations initiatives
- LAWPRO committed to corporate social responsibility
- Why the LAWPRO base premium is only the start of the story
- Wondering when to report that claim or potential claim? Do it now
- Be smart about spam: Use whitelisting so you don’t miss key messages
- Avoiding the unintentional expansion of retainers
2012 December Resolutions: Resolutions for a Better Practice
- New Year’s resolutions for a healthier law practice and a new you
- Need some 2013 resolutions for your law practice? We have some!
- E&O and R&R: Insurance planning for retirement
- How the real estate bar entered the insurance business, or what happens when a lawyer is also an insurance intermediary
- Insurance matters: Innocent party coverage
- Insurance matters: Temporary leave of absence
- TitlePLUS program celebrates its 15th anniversary; now on Facebook
- Applying for TitlePLUS coverage simplified effective Aug 15
- Don’t be trapped by old habits of thought – The limitation period for equitable claims is now two years
- Lawyers’ negligence actions: experts and pleadings
- Avoiding communication-based claims: some tips for litigators
- How to untag yourself on Facebook (and why you might want to)
- LAWPRO gets social
2012 October - Insurance Issue 2013: Holding the course on premiums for 2013, but with an uneasy eye on claims
2012 August Checklists: Take the Time to Get it Right
- Inadequate investigation/discovery now #1 cause of claims
- Diversify without dabbling: Before expanding your practice, expand your competence
- What keeps you up at night? Ontario family lawyers answer our question
- Avoiding claims while serving clients on a budget
- Full version of the Domestic Contracts Matter Toolkit
- Getting the final document correct: The rationale for using a checklist for commercial transactions
- Top 10 family law developments to have on your radar
- Top 10 reasons we’re in a $100 million world
- Vicarious directors’ liability?!?!
- Leaving your current law firm
- Why we read the fine print from FSCO and OSFI
- Liability for client costs: Protect yourself
- Lessons learned: The Limitations Act, 2002
- Book review: Cloud computing for lawyers
2012 May/June - Year in Review 2011: 2011 Annual Review
- Mentor with less fear with LAWPRO waiver of deductible
- Real estate lawyers: The buck stops with you
- Is Facebook secretly sharing what you are reading and watching?
- Book reviews: iPad, iPad Apps and LinkedIn in One Hour for Lawyers
- $101 million in claims costs: Do we have your attention yet?
- Hitting our stride: Fine-tuning service
- E&O claims numbers: Going up
- Following through to recover costs
- How remedial action by LAWPRO saves the bar millions
- LAwPRO defends lawyers in diverse areas of practice
- TitlePLUS update: Careful management of risks, claims paves way for TitlePLUs program’s future
- Corporate citizenship: An evolving new LAWPRO mandate
- 2011 financial results explained
2012 Student Issue 1: Student to lawyer: 20 tips for a successful transition
- Student to lawyer: 20 tips for a successful transition
- Is this the job you want? How to find the right fit – and then sell yourself in the interview
- What new lawyers need to know about LAWPRO’s mandatory professional liability insurance
- What I wish I knew in law school
- Essential LinkedIn do’s and don’ts for law students
2012 January Employment: Making the Right Move
- Recruiting and retaining top talent
- Is this the job you want? How to find the right fit – and then sell yourself in the interview
- A checklist for avoiding conflicts on lateral lawyer transfers
- Insurance implications of lawyer transfers & practice structures
- Unbundled legal services: Pitfalls to avoid
- MCT + IFRS: More than the sum of its parts
- Unbundling and family law
- Self-represented claimants and vexatious litigants
- Tendering correctly: Preserve your client’s rights (and avoid a claim!)
- Sydney Troister article “The Reality of Tendering: Why Real Estate Lawyers Give Fuel for Litigators to Sue Them”
- Essential do’s and don’ts for LinkedIn Users
- Book review: Three titles on recruiting and keeping lawyers and partner departures
- Resources to help you find your footing
2011 October - Insurance Issue 2012: Base premium holds steady for 2012
2011 Fall Communications: Communication Breakdown
- Is anyone listening? Preventing communications claims
- Let’s get talking – A look at communications breakdowns
- Editorial: A clean slate
- Mandatory professional indemnity insurance & a mandatory insurer: A global perspective
- Casebook: Communication is a two-way street
- Beware the Ides of Rule 48
- Six technology tools for improving client communication
- Book review: Three books to help lawyers communicate better
- The fallout of incivility from the victim’s perspective
- Lawyer incivility – The claims consequences
- Lawyer incivility: How clients – and the bar- pay the consequences
2011 Summer - Year in Review 2010: 2010 Annual Review
- Putting LAWPRO’s vision and values to work – for you
- 2010 financial results explained
- The new $80+ million world of claims costs
- Frauds in 2010: An update and a warning
- Repairs: A stitch in time saves nine
- Plaintiffs push the envelope – LAWPRO pushes back
- Recoveries: Leaving no stone unturned
- Adapting to changing times: Service
- practicePRO: Risk management that’s relevant
- TitlePLUS: Getting the message out
- Compliance claims a challenge
- Leadership and service values at work
- Essential dos and don’ts for Twitter users
- Administrative dismissals, Part 2
- Book review: How good lawyers survive bad times
- OLAP takes stock: Our year in review
2010 Dec File Retention: File Retention
- When you do legal work involving foreign law or lawyers: Are you covered?
- Cross-border selection of lawyers – Issues to consider
- Professional indemnity insurance requirements around the world
- New rules and guidelines – Assessing your client’s outstanding claims for audit purposes
- Gearing up for IFRS at LAWPRO
- There’s more to title insurance that meets the eye
- Real estate claims trends – errors and insights
- Title insurance – Separating fact from fiction
- Title insurance – Not the panacea lawyers had hoped for
- TitlePLUS claims – What the numbers tell us
- Book review: Easy self-audits for the busy law office
- Do you owe a fiduciary duty to your office manager?
- Lawyers who do too much
- How long should you keep your closed files?
2010 October - Insurance Issue 2011: What's new for 2011?
2010 September Pitfalls: Risky business: pitfalls in practice today
- Practice pitfalls
- A systematic approach to law firm risk managment
- Danger signs: Five activities generally not covered by your LAWPRO policy
- Insurance biz 101: Why profit is not always a bad word
- TitlePLUS campaign targets Quebec
- Protecting client data: 11 steps to take when using technology
- Franchise law tenet: Disclosure! Disclosure! Disclosure!
- Buyer beware: Title insurers’ policy sublimits create new risks for lawyers
- Book review – Risk management: Survival tools for law firms
- The Limitations Act, 2002 is a “catch-all” statute
- Survive being sued
2010 May/June - Year in Review 2009: Special Issue: 2009 in review
- 2009 Annual Report highlights – Financial results explained
- E&O claims: The trend is up
- The Kenora gambit – Why it pays to know Ontario has two time zones…and other repair stories
- LAWPRO goes to bat for lawyers – in many different ways
- A leg up: How LAWPRO helps lawyers manage risk
- Staying current: Helping lawyers adapt
- TitlePLUS program: Building for the long haul
- In the public eye
- Keep your guard up: More sophisticated cheque scams targeting lawyers
- Online Excess policy information available on My LAWPRO
- Tech tip: Smartphone apps for lawyers
- Practice tips – Charitable bequests; common real estate pitfalls
- Is the defence of absolute privilege available for communications in advance of litigation?
- Trends in lawyer wellness in Ontario in 2009
2009 December Social Media: Social Media
- The facts on overdraft protection
- An overview of social media
- Social Media: Tools most useful to lawyers
- Social Media: Using online social networking tools to market your practice and firm
- Social media pitfalls to avoid
- Litigation and online social networking sites
- Supervision: The buck stops with you
- Enhanced coverage for counterfeit certified cheques and bank drafts
- Book review: Lawyer’s Guide to Marketing on the Internet
- The Apology Act 2009: A new dispute resolution tool
- Social technology: Are connectivity and connection synonymous?
2009 October - Insurance Issue 2010: What's new for 2010?
2009 September Big Claims: Why be concerned about what's happening with claims?
- Why be concerned about what’s happening with claims?
- Transaction levy revenues, Premium Stabilization Fund contribute to premium stability
- Claims numbers, costs trend upward putting pressure on premiums
- TitlePLUS policy numbers, claims costs grow
- Lawyers as targets of fraud: the common misconceptions
- Legal malpractice risks change in tough times (but the best risk management strategies don’t)
2009 July Change: Changing direction: thinking differently about your law practice
- Practice locums: E&O insurance issues to consider
- E&O claims continue upwards putting pressure on premiums
- Anatomy of a fraud alert
- The new reality for legal services: What kind of lawyer will you be?
- Practice innovation: It’s time to do different things…and do things differently
- Strategic resourcing: Thinking differently about delivery of legal services
- Technology opens doors to new thinking
- A checklist for using a Software as a Service (SaaS) vendor
- Minister discusses changes to the Land Titles Assurance Fund
- Full interview: Minister discusses changes to the Land Titles Assurance Fund
- Retired solicitors: Do you have enough insurance to fight “ancient” or recent claims?
- Supplement: Full text of the Poirier decision
- Administrative dismissal: Take it seriously and ask for (our) help
- Book review: The end of lawyers?
- Tough times and suicide: How to help lawyers in distress
2008/2009 Winter Tough Economy: Surviving the Slide
- Surviving the slide
- Building a better clientele
- When the unthinkable happens – Internal fraud very costly for LAWPRO
- Technology in trying times
- Leaving private practice? Don’t forget your LAWPRO insurance!
- The phantom client returns…again and again
- BlackBerry 101: The hidden essentials
- Book reviews: Through the Client’s Eyes; How to Draft Bills Clients Rush to Pay
- Taking care of yourself in tough economic times
- The full version of the “Surviving the Slide” roundtable discussion
2008 October - Insurance Issue 2009: What's new for 2009? Few changes to the 2009 insurance program
2008 Summer practicePRO 10th: practicePRO: helping lawyers for 10 years
- Fraud – A growing problem affecting all lawyers
- Fraud – The threat from within
- Funds handling – and the benefits of wire transfers
- practicePRO: A look back
- practicePRO: The next 10 years
- The biggest malpractice claims risks
- 10 critical issues facing the legal profession
- Supplement: The financial numbers all lawyers (and all managing partners) should be seeing
- Supplement: Technology and the hourly billing challenge
- Supplement: ‘Ubiquity is near’ by Domenic Jaar
- Supplement: What’s hot in law firm web marketing?
- Supplement: Innovation in leadership and leadership in innovation
- Supplement: Knowledge management for law firms by Connie Crosby
- Future friendly: LAWPRO’s new “go green” program
- Mortgage broker exclusion amended
- 10 essential technology skills and practices
- Book reviews: Yellow pages advertising; Marketing on the internet
- Limitations update: Some periods preserved and courts have limited discretion to extend time to commence action
- Debunking the “lone sufferer” myth once and for all
2008 Winter Personalities: Personality & Practice
- Herding cats: The lawyer personality revealed
- Leveraging generational diversity in law
- Growing cultural competency
- How to really communicate with clients and avoid malpractice claims
- Supplement: Full version of Paul Lisnek client communications article
- Fraud scam alert: Two new frauds to know about
- The Torquemada Rule is alive and well
- Separating fact from fiction on deductibles and surcharges
- Cellphone and BlackBerry etiquette: A short refresher
- Book reviews: How to Start and Build a Law Practice/Flying Solo
- Simultaneously acting for members of the same family is risky
- Practice tips: Construction liens/Rule 49
- The personality/wellness connection
- FAQs: New real estate practice coverage
2007 October - Insurance Issue 2008: Lower premium, new real estate practice coverage for 2008
- Lower premium, new real estate practice coverage for 2008
- 2008 insurance coverage for lawyers in private practice
- Real Estate Practice Coverage required for all real estate practitioners
- Self-Assessment Tool for Real Estate Practice Coverage Option
- 2008 insurance coverage for exempt lawyers
- Excess Insurance: More necessary than you may believe
- 2007 insurance coverage for exempt lawyers
2007 Summer Making Mark: Making your Mark
- Finding and keeping good lawyers
- Delegating responsibly and effectively
- Lawyers on boards: Assessing the risks and limiting the liability
- Sitting on a non-profit board: A risk management checklist
- How not to get sued over the GST
- Drafting errors a simple error can cost you
- The Andromeda Strain: Blacklining charts
- British jurisprudence and the corporate commercial solicitor
- Real estate fraud legislation: shaping the new practice reality
- New practice guidelines guide practitioners in title insurance era
- Dangerous liaisons
- The TitlePLUS OwnerEXPRESS policy: Peace of mind in new anti-fraud era
- TitlePLUS campaign supports lawyer role in “mortgage-only” deals
- Osgoode student wins inaugural TitlePLUS essay prize
- The lawyer’s guide to increasing revenue: Unlocking the profit potential in your firm
- Voice mail 101
- Living well while living large
2007 Winter Boomers: Aging boomers: a wakeup call for lawyers
- The boomer challenge: Are lawyers ready?
- Elder law resources
- Wills, powers of attorney and the elderly: A practitioner’s perspective
- Capacity and capacity assessment in Ontario
- Wills and estates law: Claims slowly on the increase
- Reverse mortgages 101
- The changing face of the legal profession: Fact or fiction?
- Highlights: A statistical review of lawyers in practice (2006)
- Winding down the law practice: Retirement as a renewal process
- Winding down the law practice: Planning for retirement
- Fraud: The problem that won’t go away
- Guarding against real estate fraud: It’s a war out there
- Pre-emptive protection: Guarding against real estate fraud: Creating an operational system in your office
- Personal information and privacy: Where are the boundaries?
- Amended legislation introduces full shield protection for LLPs
- Mutual wills: Solving the lawyer’s dilemma
- TitlePLUS consumer campaigns reach millions
- LAWPRO policy exclusion for investment advice/services
- Advising the snowbird client
- The lawyer’s guide to balancing life and work
- How to do more with your mouse
- Planning for career adjustments
2006 October - Insurance Issue 2007: Lower premiums, program enhancements for 2007 LAWPRO insurance program
- Lower premiums, program enhancements for 2007 LAWPRO insurance program
- How to save on 2007 insurance premiums
- 2007 insurance coverage for lawyers in private practice
- Excess insurance: More necessary than you may believe
- LAWPRO’s new website: A snapshot
- Exempt lawyers are still at risk
- Lawyers acting as estate trustee, trustee for inter vivos trust, or attorney for property
2006 Summer Wellness: Work and Wellness
- Balancing life
- Fitness and balance
- Technology: good tool, bad tool
- Technology, stress and the lawyer’s quality of life
- Your duty to report misconduct by a struggling lawyer
- Real estate claims on the rise: Poor communication is the culprit
- Bar-related is better
- A “real simple” winning combination
- Advice on foreign law not covered
- Cases to note for litigation counsel
- Surfing with your keyboard
- Online coaching centre: Getting stress hardy
- Significant Stat: Solo, small and large firms make same errors
- Malpractice errors by firm size
2006 Winter Client Service: Delivering on the client service promise
- Real estate wins bode well for lawyers
- Stoneman et al vs Gladman et al J. Perell Reasons for Judgment July 22 2005
- Smith vs Century 21 et. al. J. Abbey Reasons for Judgment March 23 2005
- Hendry vs Strike et al J Ferguson Reasons for Judgment Sept 7 2005
- IP lawyers beware: Fallout from Dutch Industries decision
- Even lawyers sometimes need help
- Perfection in client service from the ground up
- How to walk the client-centric talk
- Bring your brand to life
- Marketing ABCs
- Post-matter client satisfaction survey precedent
- The morning after mediation
- Self-represented litigants: A survival guide
- Fraud-proof your practice
- Prompt claims reporting: a key ingredient in the risk management mix
2005 October - Insurance Issue 2006: LAWPRO holds insurance premium increase to 3% for 2006
2005 September eDiscovery: e-Discovery
- E-discovery: A significant issue for all cases
- Why electronic documents are different
- eDiscovery Request Letter Precedent
- Spoliation, preservation, and other “gotchas”
- The issue of costs
- Making and responding to electronic discovery requests
- The tao of e-data use and presentation
- Using litigation support software in the courtroom –
- New TitlePLUS products
- Emotional intelligence
- Docketing do’s and dont’s
2005 July Family Law: Family law
- Goodbye litigator: Hello “breakdown consultant” – Meet the new family law lawyer
- Tips on managing clients from the get-go
- Family Law – A view from the bench
- Spousal support advisory guidelines: A brave new world?
- Spousal support advisory guidelines: New help for lawyers
- Family law: Increasingly a risky business
- The future of real estate practice?
- Online Coaching Centre: Getting stress hardy – achieving work life balance by understanding the components of your life
- Windows gone wild
- Tech tip: Three fantastic and free web resources
2004 December eWorld: Practising in an e-world
- Tapping the potential of extranets
- Have you Googled yourself lately?
- LVTS vs. ACSS: Funds handling in an electronic environment
- RealtiPLUSWeb: leading edge technology in legal practice
- How to avoid being phished
- If you do nothing else – the lucky 13 things you must do to protect you data
- Supplement: Managing the security and privacy of electronic data in a law office booklet
- Supplement: How to enable the security settings on a wireless access point or router
- Supplement: Employee departure checklist
- Is there a crook in the firm?
- Safeguarding certified cheques
- When the police come calling – the law office search
- Is there coverage under LAWPRO’s policy for fraud?
- Tech Tip – Disarming pop-ups
2004 October - Insurance Issue 2005: LAWPRO holds insurance premium increase to 5% in 2005
2004 June Fraud: The many faces of fraud
- Identity fraud: simple yet sophisticated; and warning signs of identity fraud
- Can we really rely on The Land Titles Register and Land Titles Assurance Fund
- Corporate fraud – identity theft with a difference; and warning signs of corporate identity fraud
- Flip/value fraud schemes – when all that glitters is not gold; and warning signs of value frauds
- Fighting Fraud: Tips for lawyers; and what to do when you suspect a fraud
- Fighting Fraud: Build a better checklist
- Fighting Fraud: Be wary of providing identification services
- Fighting Fraud: Protect security of PSPs
- Fighting Fraud: Implement internal controls
- Fighting Fraud: Organizations collaborate
- The toll fraud takes: A victim’s story
- The toll fraud takes: A discipline counsel perspective
- Can you ever advise a client to ignore foreign proceedings?
- Are your pro bono services covered by LAWPRO?
- Significant Stats: Communications related issues account for about 38% of real estate malpractice claims
- Tech tip: Computer trouble shooting – Top ten steps
- Beware the dangers of metadata
- Online Coaching Centre: Business development – Developing business by finding referral sources
2003 Fall - Insurance Issue 2004: 2004 insurance program
- 2004 insurance program and policy changes
- Weathering the insurance storm: How LAWPRO has shielded lawyers from the insurance crunch
- Representing the snowbird client – are you covered?
- DIVORCEmate software addresses family law risks
- A better way to Jump from one program to another
- LAWPRO CLE Premium Credit program makes its mark
- Online Coaching Centre: Powerful communications – better client service by knowing what your clients want
- Significant Stats: Beware of acting for family & friends
2003 Summer Practice Soar: Helping your practice soar
- Structuring firms to manage risk: liability and law firm structures; and is yours a true association or apparent partnership?
- A taxing question: the tax implications of different firm structures
- Indemnity and hold harmless provisions: a request for reasonable or excessive protection
- Privacy and your clients: An agenda for every firm
- Supplement: Generic law firm privacy policy precedent
- How the new mobility agreement affects you and your insurance coverage
- TitlePLUS claims…the stories behind the statistics
- LAWPRO raises concerns about lender programs
- Title Insurance the fine print: $50 transaction levy payable on some title insured transactions
- Tech Tip: www.canlii.org An excellent internet source for free legal research
- Casebook: The wills and estates bar breathes a sigh of relief
- Significant Stats: Only 6% errors arise from failure to know/apply law
- Tips and tricks for becoming an outlook power user
- 2004 insurance program news: LAWPRO opts for web over paper
2003 March Success: Building for success
- Dealing with the dollars: Why financial planning and management are as important as lawyering
- Avoiding financial difficulty: business essentials for lawyer
- Common pitfalls and best practices for starting and leaving practice
- Law Society tools to enhance competence and reduce risk
- Assess your firm’s need for Excess insurance
- Managing the finances of your practice booklet
- TitlePLUS goes online
- Best practices & title insurance: – Lessons learned from managing TitlePLUS claims
- Ontario’s new Limitations Act, 2002: An overview
- Limitations Act 2002: A huge reform of existing law
- Respecting the “trust” in trust accounts
- Adobe acrobat and PDF files – An essential pPart of your legal technology arsenal
- Tech Tip: Search and file writs of execution online without going to the registry office
- Online Coaching Centre: Business development – developing business by fishing for whales
- Significant stats: Conflicts of interest: the third most common and second most costly malpractice error
- Casebook: Lawyers beware: you can be fair game if client is disappointed
2002 October - Insurance Issue 2003: 2003 insurance program: fitting the coverage to your needs
- 2003 Insurance Program
- Moving money online – real time, real value
- TitlePLUS on the Web: redefining the future of real estate practice
- Litigation practice: new processes call for new approaches
- Surviving the e-mail onslaught
- Significant Stats: The most common malpractice error: a failure to follow client’s instructions
- Casebook: LAWPRO repairs
2002 July Disaster: Preparing your practice for the unpredictable
- When lightning strikes…are you prepared?
- Supplement: Managing practice interruptions booklet
- Vulnerability assessment spreadsheet
- TitlePLUS celebrates its fifth birthday
- Casebook: Repairing Lawyers’ mistakes
- Online Coaching Centre: Getting stress hardy – managing change by building resilience
- Tech Tip: Are you properly inoculated?
2002 April Mentoring: Focus on mentoring
