Per the Massachusetts Rules of Professional Conduct, at Rule 1.8(e), there are specific exceptions to the bar on attorneys providing financial assistance to clients, when it comes to advancing court costs and expenses of litigation. The Board of Bar Overseers…
Unless your name is Sallie Mae or Freddie Mac, you know that (student) loans are no fun. Of course, neither are economic crashes . . . But, it may be that our most recent recession has made it more favorable…
LOMAP has now, for more years than I can count (I can’t count very high), offered free ‘start-up’ meetings for lawyers looking to establish their own law firms. At these two-hour meetings, we dedicate an hour to ‘traps for the…
I’m not ashamed to say that, at the Topsfield Fair not every year, I eat a lot of funnel cake -- like, a lot. And, that’s not just for when the Fair’s going on, though: I’m also partial to deep-fried…
There’s certainly still a lot of apparent appeal to the general practice of law. I mean, if Abraham Lincoln did it, it can’t be half-bad, right? Well, you comb your hair, don’t you? Examine a picture of Abraham Lincoln sometime:…
Three has always been held up as a mystical number: the Trinity; Larry Bird; the titular reworking of the Three Musketeers; etc. It just so happens that you also need three people to market a modern law practice. The good…
It’s springtime again, and that can only mean one thing: Our annual marketing conference is in the offing. The ‘Third Annual Super Marketing Conference: Accelerate Your Marketing’ will focus on web marketing. This year, we have partnered with the Massachusetts…
While my regular podcasting home is the Legal Talk Network (watch for a new episode of the Legal Toolkit later this week, in which I explain my long hiatus and introduce a show co-host), I have been known to dip…
This week’s Massachusetts Bar Association Lawyers E-Journal Law Practice Management Section Featured Practice Tip comes from LOMAP. In this week’s tip, we provide a number of tips on how to get paid for your services. [button link="https://www.massbar.org/publications/e-journal/2013/march/03-21/law-practice-management-tip" window="yes"]Click here to read the tip.[/button]
This is the fourth installment of a four part series on how to build a website for your law firm. Previous parts tackled initial steps (Part I), design and development (Part II), and site metrics (Part III). Likely, you have…