ALPS Attorneys, Kobi, Chris and Mark will share what they believe to be the 10 habits any new lawyer should develop from day one based upon their collective experiences in the world of legal malpractice claims, risk management, and private practice. While practice management tips will play a major role in their discussion, time will also be spent focusing on various personal and professional relationships that can make all the difference.
Few law firms seem to fully appreciate the level of risk attorneys and staff truly represent. As a user of firm technology, any individual’s actions can unintentionally circumvent the security tools IT support has deployed. This program will try to address this problem by focusing on how to secure the users of technology by creating awareness of how social engineering attacks occur and coupling that with passing along knowledge of how the attacks themselves can be circumvented.
Every attorney would probably agree that learning about the law is very different from actually practicing the law. New practitioners have entered a profession where conflict is everywhere and they are trying to manage an assistant, clients, co-workers, opposing counsel, the court, and their personal lives. This program will touch on 10 things that help keep the plates spinning.
Hype is hype and when you spend money you tend to get what you pay for. Legal Malpractice Insurance is no different. (And this isn't a sales pitch!) So here's a list of questions you should always ask when you're shopping around for insurance to protect your firm. Please note this is a free, non-CLE-accredited webinar.
Calling all lawyers! Are you finding it difficult to find or maintain wellness in your personal and professional life? Join us for an eye-opening course designed specifically for lawyers, where you'll learn how to move toward a state of well-being without compromising your career aspirations.
This presentation will focus on ways attorneys can nurture productive attorney-client relationships. Key takeaways will include an awareness of why setting the right impression at the outset of representation is so important, practical tips on how to constructively manage the attorney-client relationship, insight on the value of looking for the learning from problem clients, and an understanding of steps that can be taken to communicate with clients more effectively.
The legal profession, like other industries and professions, has not been able to eradicate sexual harassment and more can be done. This program will discuss a recent study of the issue in the legal profession, the effect on individuals and the profession, and propose some additional tools with which to tackle it, including “active ally actions” and the Rules of Professional Conduct.
According to the ABA's 2023 Legal Technology Survey Report, 29% of U.S. law firms have been breached by cyber criminals. In this non-CLE accredited free webinar, cybersecurity experts from Sensei Enterprises will run through real-world examples of recent attacks to law firms, discuss your law firm's ethical duty to protect client data, and offer some tangible tools and tips to help you do just that.
In this program, two video vignettes will set up ethical issues that will be discussed the faculty panel. Topics will include the use of indemnification provisions in fee agreements, law firms as clients of professional employer organizations, the no-contact rule and pushing ethical boundaries, lawyer mobility in general, switching sides, inadvertent misdelivery, and limited scope representation. This program is offered in partnership with the State Bar of Georgia. Accreditation for this program has only been sought in the state of Georgia.