Working on practicelaw is a constant balance between adding new and maintaining old content, soliciting content and drafting in house, predicting future needs of practitioners and responding to current questions. We are a small staff, and the balls are always in the air. Since I last updated readers on practicelaw, we’ve done a little of …
Beach Reads
‘Tis the season for trips to the lake, lolling around in the heat and humidity. How to stay entertained? Well, for those who don’t want to stray too far from the law, here are some suggestions. The ABA Journal and the University of Alabama teamed up to honor Harper Lee for her book To Kill …
Heads Up
Practice law in Minnesota? Here are a few things you should know about:. Military Law Check out the ABA’s new site, HomeFront, which gathers legal resources helpful to military families. The site has publications, links to resources, and a way to connect attorneys wanting to do pro bono work with military families in need. The …
Don’t Right Click This Post
The Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility has been busy with its opinions in the last year, amending two prior opinions, proposing and approving two new opinions, and proposing a third new opinion that is currently open for comment. The two relatively new opinions cover the use of the term “& Associates” in a firm’s …
Do-It-Yourself Legal Services
At last week’s Off the Clock #6, we got into a very interesting discussion about the number of solo and small firm attorneys (and perhaps big firm attorneys) who are competing with online “legal service” outfits such as LegalZoom, Nolo, and LawDepot.com. An interesting experiment came out of that discussion, namely I agreed to buy …