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YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA

YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Last Friday I spoke to the Idaho Trial Lawyer’s Association at their annual convention. On the program was Assistant Chief deputy Attorney General Brian Kane who talked about social media and  how it impacts lawyers. I thought I had a good grasp of the implications, but after listening to Brian decided I needed to talk to my partners about the subject, especially as part of our new client intake process. Brian said  that in 2012 some 800 million people are…

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Developing a case referral office policy

Developing a case referral office policy

If you are contacted about cases that you either can’t or don’t want to accept you should consider a standard office policy on referral of cases. Here is an example of a policy: A GENERAL POLICY 1. There are four types of cases we refer out to other attorneys: (1) Cases involving legal work outside of our area which have sufficient merit to justify a referral to a specific attorney (2) Cases with we don’t feel are substantial enough but…

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I’m much too young to feel this damn old (with apology to garth brooks)

I’m much too young to feel this damn old (with apology to garth brooks)

We just returned home after two weeks of travel in Europe so I am behind in posting to this blog. I haven’t had a chance to develop something for this week so let me share a short story of my start as a lawyer almost half a century ago. It was forty six years ago at a movie theater in down town Spokane. A dozen or so of us gathered on a Saturday in the movie theater with our families…

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