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29 Results: Practice Management
01 March 2007
Keywords: "Business Continuity", Communication, "Engagement Management", "Firm Management", "Limitation Period", "Office Management", "Practice Management", "Retainer Letters"
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Make sure you know how long all completed files should be kept for (expiry of limitation periods), and that they are easily obtainable if necessary. Create inventories of all completed files where possible.
Business Con...
01 December 2006
Keywords: "Case Study", "Client Handling", Communication, "Engagement Management", "Firm Management", "Practice Management"
Advocates and solicitors owe many duties to their clients, but generally do not owe duties to the public while performing their obligations to their clients. It is paramount, therefore, that an advocate and solicitor be able to disting...
01 December 2006
Keywords: "Case Study", "Client Handling", Communication, "Conflict of Interest", "Engagement Management", "Firm Management", "Practice Management"
The Facts
Michelle Law (“Law”) is a lawyer in Kuala Lumpur who’s main area of practice involves medical negligence. Sulaiman Wahab is Law’s client. While on vacation in Sipadan Island, Sabah, Encik Sulaiman ...
01 September 2006
Keywords: "Case Study", Conveyancing, Fraud, "Land Search", "Practice Management"
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The Facts
In early January 2005, Firm A was engaged by a walk-in client, G. G informed Firm A that he had found the home of his dreams and had managed to negotiate a reasonable price of RM800,000 for the property. He n...
01 September 2006
Keywords: "Client Handling", Communication, "Conflict of Interest", Conveyancing, "Firm Management", "Land Search", "Practice Management"
DO’S
Advise the Purchaser on the terms and conditions in the SPA, including the preamble. Do not assume your client is familiar with the clauses. For example, the existence of any encumbrances on the Property.
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01 June 2006
, by Bizibody Technology Pte Ltd
Keywords: Communication, "Firm Management", "Office Management", "Practice Management"
Bizibody Technology is a specialist practice management and technology solution provider to the legal industry in Singapore and Malaysia. As consultants to the Law Society of Singapore in the PRIMELAW Standards and an Approved Trai...
01 June 2006
Keywords: "Client Handling", Communication, "conflicts of interest", "Firm Management", "Practice Management"
Keep your client constantly advised of the status of the case, analysis of the case, expected and incurred fees or expenses, and all clients’ options.
Prior to client repr...
01 March 2006
, by Linda J Ravdin
Keywords: "Business Continuity", "Firm Management", "Office Management", "Practice Management", "Succession Planning"
Linda J. Ravdin is a shareholder in a 13-lawyer firm, Pasternak & Fidis, P.C., in Bethesda, Maryland. She joined the firm after 28 years of practicing as a solo or in small firms of two to five lawyers. She concentrates in domestic re...
01 January 2006
Keywords: "File Management", "Firm Management", "Office Management", "Practice Management"
DID YOU KNOW?
Documentation can save you and your clients time, money and exasperation.
Little Known Fact:
As your practice grows, files could become your biggest headache! Over the years, they can become costly and sometimes cum...