Download or read book How Lawyers Screw Their Clients and what You Can Do about it written by Donald E. DeKieffer and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indictment of the practice of gross billable hours among lawyers, which encourages them to accumulate as much hours as possible on a case, penalizing efficiency and competence, offers ideas for protecting oneself against it. IP.

Download or read book How to Get More Law Firm Clients Without Losing Time Money Or Getting Screwed by a Marketing Company written by Andrew Stickel and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do You Know the #1 Secret to Getting More Law Clients? Marketing is always evolving. Forty years ago, lawyers couldn't market. Then along came Bates v. Arizona State Bar, and attorneys rushed to radio stations, local TV, and the phone book in search of that once-in-a-lifetime case. Then the internet happened, bringing us Search Engine Optimization, Pay Per Click ads, and Social Media. Every lawyer I talk to has tried one (or more) of these, but they feel like they're just throwing money away. And most of the time they are. Gone are the days when you could say, "Need legal help? Hire me!" and get clients. What's a savvy lawyer to do? In How Get More Law Firm Clients Without Losing Time & Money or Getting SCREWED By a Marketing Company, you'll learn a completely new (and much cheaper) way to market your law firm and retain more clients--value first. Provide value, and you'll be able to: Easily increase your monthly intake Create top of mind awareness without spending a dime Launch ad campaigns that convert like crazy Generate clients on demand with a "community of leads" Turn past clients into your best salespeople Protect your bottom line from all-hype-no-substance marketers Whether you're a sole proprietor just starting out, you own an established firm with local brand recognition, or you work at a national firm with hundreds of partners, How to Get More Law Firm Clients will help you take your firm's revenue to the next level.

Download or read book Through the Client s Eyes written by Henry W. Ewalt and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2008 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help lawyers build better, stronger, and smarter relationships with their clients. From educating the client about the law to eliciting quantifiable feedback by using surveys, this updated edition covers legal marketing in an easy-to-read, well-organized and practical manner.

Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Download or read book Why Lawyers Behave As They Do written by Paul G. Haskell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Why Lawyers Behave as They Do, Paul Haskell explains the professional rules that govern how lawyers behave and which permitor requireconduct that laypersons may find unethical. In his criticism of the traditional role of lawyers, Haskell proposes an alternativeand controversialmodel of behavior. Over the past five years, the American Bar Association and legal educators themselves have been expanding the discussion of professional responsibility. Traditionalists state that lawyers must maximize the gain for their client regardless of whether that means turning a blind eye to behavior or facts which may serve justice but hinder the clients case.In Why Lawyers Behave as They Do, Paul Haskell explains the professional rules that govern how lawyers behave and which permitor requireconduct that laypersons may find unethical. In his criticism of the traditional role of lawyers, Haskell proposes an alternativeand controversialmodel of behavior.

Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Download or read book Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients written by Austin Sarat and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year more than 2 million Americans get divorced, and most of them use a lawyer. In closed-door conversations between lawyers and their clients strategy is planned, tactics are devised, and the emotional climate of the divorce is established. Do lawyers contribute to the pain and emotional difficulty of divorce by escalating demands and encouraging unreasonable behavior? Do they take advantage of clients at a time of emotional difficulty? Can and should clients trust their lawyers to look out for their welfare and advance their long-term interests? Austin Sarat and William L. F. Felstiner's new book, based on a pioneering and intensive study of actual conferences between divorce lawyers and their clients, provides an unprecedented behind-the-scenes description of the lawyer-client relationship, and calls into question much of the conventional wisdom about what divorce lawyers actually do. Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients suggests that most divorces are marked less by a pattern of aggressive advocacy than by one of inaction and drift. It uncovers reasons why lawyers find divorce practice frustrating and difficult and why clients frequently feel dissatisfied with their lawyers. This new work provides a unique perspective on the dynamics of professionalism. It charts the complex and shifting ways lawyers and clients "negotiate" their relationship as they work out the strategy and tactics of divorce. Sarat and Felstiner show how both lawyers and clients are able to draw on resources of power to set the agenda of their interaction, while neither one is fully in charge. Rather, power shifts between the two parties; where it is achieved, power is found in the ability to have one's understandings of the social and legal worlds of divorce accepted. Power then works through the creation of shared meanings. Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients examines the effort to create such shared meanings about the nature of marriage and why marriages fail, the operation of the legal process, and the best way to bring divorces to closure. It will be fascinating reading for anyone who is going through a divorce, or has gone through one, as well as for lawyers, judges, and scholars of law and society.

Download or read book No Contest written by Ralph Nader and published by Random House. This book was released on 1998-12-22 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legal rights of Americans are threatened as never before. In No Contest, Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith reveal how power lawyers--Kenneth Starr perhaps the most notorious among them--misuse and manipulate the law at the expense of fairness and equity. Nader and Smith document how corporate lawyers File baseless lawsuits Use court secrecy to their unfair advantage Engage in billing fraud Nader and Smith sound the warning that this system-wide abuse is eroding our basic legal rights, and propose a positive, commonsense vision of what should be done to reverse the corporate-inspired corruption of civil justice. Timely, incisive, and highly readable, this is a book for all citizens who believe that prompt access to justice is the backbone of democracy, and a precious right to be reclaimed.

Download or read book Law as a Profession written by State University of Iowa and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Client Science written by Marjorie Corman Aaron and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyers know that client counseling can be the most challenging part of legal practice. Clients question and often resist the complexities and uncertainties inherent in law and legal process. Honest advice from the lawyer can make a client doubt his or her allegiance and zeal. Client backlash may be directed at the lawyer who communicates bad news. Thus, the lawyer may feel torn between the obligation to clearly inform a client about weaknesses in legal positions and fear of damaging the client relationship. Too often, the lawyer struggles to counsel a particularly difficult client, but to no avail. Client Science is written to provide insight and advice to lawyers on how to more effectively communicate with their clients with regard to legal realities and difficult decisions. It will help lawyers with the always-difficult task of delivering "bad news," which will result in better-informed and thus more satisfied clients. The book explains applicable social science research and insights and translates them into plain language relevant to legal practice and client counseling. Marjorie Corman Aaron offers specific suggestions related to a lawyer's ordering, timing, phrasing, and type of explanation, as well as style adjustments for the lawyer's voice, gesture, and body position, all to impact client counseling and to improve the lawyer-client relationship.

Download or read book Games Lawyers Play and Clients Too written by David M Cook J D and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He was lying to you, I said reading with my head down, half listening to her lawyer story in the background."A few years ago, those words slipped out - to a client no less - and have culminated in the writing of this funny, honest, andblunt assessment of the practice of law. David M. Cook shares the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about lawyers, clients and the realities of the legal system. You'll learn: - What the attorneys are really thinking when you meet them forthe first time - Why clients feel compelled to manipulate their stories andactions versus the reality - What's really going on with the judge and how he or she got there - About Bill Collectors - who are these people?- Why it can be so expensive to hire an attorney- What happens when your attorney isn't paying attention to your case- How to interview, hire and fire an attorney Experience an entertaining, compelling, and totally honest view of the legal system, legal clients, and the crazies attracted to the field. In Games Lawyers Play, you'll learn how you can become extremely effective in your interactions with a system that often lacks logic.

Download or read book When a Lawyer Betrays and Abandons His Client written by William Munns and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clients who lost a case because of a procedural requirement mismanaged by their attorney, lawyers and paralegals attempting to assist a client wronged by an attorney, legal scholars, educators, and analysts of the law all may find value in this unique legal reference. The author spent three years researching the issue of attorney malpractice and the legal recourses a client has when an attorney abandons the client and destroys a client's civil case. What is unique about this text is that not only are legal statutes and caselaw presented and analyzed, but the complete casefilings of an example case, from trial court ruling through the court of appeals, and finally petitions for hearing by both the California Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court, all are included for reference. So the reader can see exactly how the subject was argued in briefs and supported by caselaw. Attorney error statutes, malpractice lawsuits, and disbaring an attorney are also covered in detail.When attorney misconduct detrimental to the attorney's own client is the issue, the theory and reality of the matter, what courts should do, and what they actually do, are disturbingly different. Any person concerned with this subject will benefit from the material of this book, and may use the material to navigate this maze toward a better solution for themselves than the author's case received. Educators, scholars and legal writers may also benefit from this detailed examination of the issue of attorney betrayal and abandonment of the client, by comparing the theory and the reality of one example case.

Download or read book Client Attraction Secrets for Lawyers R0 written by David V. Lorenzo and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attracting and retaining more clientsJob number one in every law firm is to attract and retain more clients. But how do you go about that challenging task? How do you know the marketing work in which you are investing scarce hours and dollars will actually pay off?David V. Lorenzo's Client Attraction Secrets provides a practice-proven roadmap to increasing law firm revenue without increasing your hours. His techniques might even allow you to shorten your workweek.Your results will depend on how enthusiastically and creatively you implement Mr. Lorenzo's suggestions, but know beforehand that the techniques detailed have worked for a wide variety of lawyers, in all types of practices, in good economic times and bad.Mr. Lorenzo has helped attorneys in ambitious solo practices, mid-sized firms, and multi-national behemoths. But what he most enjoys is helping lawyers build lifestyle-friendly niche practices that generate a comfortable income while permitting a healthy working/living balance.His book explains how he does it.

Download or read book Client Psychology for Lawyers written by Jens P. Nasstrom and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foundation of any strong law practice is the ability of the attorney to create effective relationships with clients. Yet deal- ing with clients effectively requires more than performing du- ties competently and keeping clients properly informed. Each client is different and each has his or her own needs, desires and predispositions. Compounding client differences are the often emotionally-charged situations that bring the client to the attorney in the first place. To more effectively manage the attorney-client relationship, attorneys need to understand the psychological background of their clients and adapt their inter- actions to suit each client's psychological needs. The result will be higher productivity during your clients' bill- able hours. You'll have the tools you need to avoid backlash from the emotionally unsatisfied whose negative opinions could tarnish the reputation of your practice. When client in- teractions are more fluid, burnout is much less likely. Plus, your client roster can grow! Learn best practices for managing difficult clients, including the angry client, the legal dogmatist, the psychopath, and many other "difficult" client types. Get practical strategies for strengthening and enhancing communication with clients who do not easily accept, or un- derstand, information. Learn the best approaches for working with clients who are under strong pressure, suffer from trauma etc.

Download or read book Representing the Accused written by Jill Paperno and published by Aspatore Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are a law clinic student making your first foray into criminal defense, a newly admitted attorney, a general practitioner, or an attorney whose practice is concentrated in criminal defense, Representing the Accused will provide you with invaluable advice as you navigate your way through a criminal case. Authored by an experienced criminal defense attorney in a large public defenders office who has personally handled thousands of criminal cases, supervised representation in thousands more, and trained scores of attorneys, this book provides insight and guidance on how to efficiently and effectively manage each step in the handling of a criminal case. In order to help you provide quality representation to your clients, this publication offers clear explanations of a criminal attorneys role at every stage, from the arrest through the conclusion of the case.

Download or read book Those Darn Lawyers written by Margaret Maunder and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LAW / SOCIAL ISSUES Had Problems with Lawyers? • Do they ride roughshod over clients’ rights? • Do lawyer-judges favor lawyers? • Consumer protection rules apply to most busi¬nesses. Why do lawyers have free rein, not even an ombudsman for clients’ rights? THESE AND OTHER questions led the author-journalist to write Those Damn Lawyers, citing her own encounters. This well-documented book tells how a law firm was able to dump her in midstream despite a written contract. Going pro se she took the issue to Connecticut’s Appellate Court, with disturbing results. YOU WILL DISCOVER • How lawyers dump clients they don’t want. • How a lawyer-written rule eases withdrawal. • What happens after the client is abandoned. • How the Appellate Court dodged the issue. • How a due process solution could remedy the problem of lawyers’ breach. Those Darn Lawyers is a personal account, not a how-to manual, but its dos and don’ts can help you get a handle on client-lawyer issues and smooth your way through the tangles of the American civil justice system

Download or read book The Trouble with Lawyers written by Murray Teigh Bloom and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trouble with Lawyers shows how the American Middle Class is victimized by a segment of the American legal profession. It is a book of critical importance for anyone involved in an accident case, a divorce, the buying or selling of a home, the sale of a business or the probating of an estate. It should be of equally vital concern to responsible lawyers and judges. The relationship between certain lawyers and their clients grows increasingly more lopsided every year as lawyers make themselves bigger and greedier partners of their middle-class clients. How do they do this? Through minimum fee price-fixing agreements that are supposed to be supported by our courts - the same courts that denounce price-fixing when it's tried by business or industry. In the Trouble with Lawyers Murray Teigh Bloom reveals with names and cases: How crooked or unethical lawyers have the odds overwhelmingly in their favor when disbarment threatens... How lawyer thefts from clients are climbing and why bar associations are afraid to get to the heart of the problem. Why it is almost impossible to sue and collect from a lawyer who has lied to you, given you you expensively bad advice or simply forgotten to take care of your case until it was too late. How the organized bar censors high school texts and TV scripts that show lawyers in an unfavorable light .... How the lawyers have enriched themselves through the court-finagled guardianships over the mentally ill, the aged and our defenseless Indians. How one state finally succeeded in its campaign to "stop the lawyers" ... What can be done - in spite of lawyer domination of Congress and our state legislatures - to give us a better break and fairer fees when we need legal services. .... Mr. Bloom spent three years researching this book, to demonstrate the faults and failures of lawyers and the fear of reform from within. As he writes. "We need our lawyers and, in an increasingly complex world, will need them more and more. But we need them on fairer terms. "