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Why the LAWPRO base premium is only the start of the story

by LAWPRO

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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 policy

Wondering when to report that claim or potential claim? Do it now

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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 policy

Be smart about spam: Use whitelisting so you don’t miss key messages

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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 Tips

Avoiding the unintentional expansion of retainers

by LAWPRO

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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 Tips

Stress management for law students (from a recent grad!)

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We all know what law school stress looks like. Come exam time, we see its physical manifestations: the law student, hibernating in the law library, subsisting on a diet of coffee and candy, sits surrounded by mountains of books, empty cans of energy drinks and an arsenal of highlighters. We recognize the bloodshot eyes and… Read More »

Categories: Articles, Law students/new lawyers, New Lawyers, Wellness, Wellness

New Year’s resolutions for a healthier law practice and a new you

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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 & Estates

Need some 2013 resolutions for your law practice? We have some!

by LAWPRO

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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, Editorials

E&O and R&R: Insurance planning for retirement

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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 policy

How the real estate bar entered the insurance business, or what happens when a lawyer is also an insurance intermediary

by LAWPRO

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

Insurance matters: Innocent party coverage

by LAWPRO

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What is it? Innocent Party coverage protects you against the dishonest, fraudulent, criminal or malicious acts or omissions of present or former partners, associates, and employed lawyers in your firm. Is this coverage mandatory? Minimum level Innocent Party coverage (sublimit coverage of $250,000 per claim/ aggregate) is required for all partners practising in association, partnership… Read More »

Categories: 2012 December Resolutions, Articles, Errors & Omissions, LAWPRO policy

Land Acknowledgement

The offices of LAWPRO are located on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, Anishnabeg, Chippewa, Haudenosaunee and Wendat peoples. Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit. LAWPRO respects and acknowledges the histories, languages, knowledge systems, and cultures of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit nations.

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