practicelaw is now in the mind-mapping business. To survive and flourish in tough economic times, lawyers must find ways to practice more efficiently. The first step in handling any client or practice matter is to gather pertinent resources and get a sense of the “forest through the trees.” To this end, practicelaw has added “At-A-Glance” …
What’s New at practicelaw
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 …
Site Provides Judges’ Courtroom Preferences
When I was a new attorney, I would sometimes fret about court appearances, especially if I had never appeared before the judge assigned to my case. I would wonder whether I should sit or stand at an upcoming hearing, whether the judge wanted courtesy copies of memoranda, or how long the judge allowed for argument. …
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We’ve written before about the distress in the legal profession, and we’ve been reading a lot about recent law school graduates struggling to find law-related jobs. We know it’s not easy out there. Bench & Bar of Minnesota, the MSBA’s monthly magazine, can make it a little easier to find new job listings as soon …
Checklist for Moving Your Law Firm
Anyone who has recently moved an office or home (or both at the same time) is familiar with the scatterbrainedness that accompanies the general sense of displacement. Having recently experienced the chaos fun of moving myself, I’m sharing my moving checklist here to hopefully simplify the process for someone else. Addresses. This is the bulk …
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