23 Common Grammar Errors
If you’ve been at your firm for 12 months, are you celebrating your “first-year anniversary?” If you’re moving closer to a target, is it grammatically correct to say y… Read More
Practice of Law
Practice Points with Mark Scruggs – Counting the Statute Of Limitations and Other Time Periods
Have you ever wondered about this as you approached the statute of limitations for filing a personal injury action: Is the statute of limitations counted in days or years? At Lawyers Mutual, w… Read More
Risk Management
Lawyer Disciplined for Billing More Than 3,100 hours
Here’s some risk management advice: if you tell your firm you worked 3,173 billable hours and more than 700 nonbillable hours in a single year – including billing for depositions y… Read More
Risk Management
Hackers Use MS Office Files to Deliver Malware
If you use Microsoft Office, you’re using the vehicle of choice for email hackers. Microsoft Office formats like Word, PowerPoint and Excel are the favored file extensions for transmitt… Read More
Business of Law
14 Tips for Supercharging Your Workday
Don’t look now, but we’re entering the second quarter of 2020. I know, I know. It seems like the year just started, and here we are welcoming the first buds and blossoms of Spring… Read More
Education & Careers
Take This Smartphone Compulsion Test
Try to guess how many times the average person touches their cell phones each day. Five hundred, perhaps? A thousand? Try more than 2,600 times. And when it comes to “extreme” use… Read More
Risk Management
Everyone Loses in Fee Fights with Clients
Here’s a risk management tip: always go the extra mile to resolve fee disputes with your clients without resorting to litigation. If you sue your client to collect the unpaid fee, there… Read More
