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Legally Speaking: What spring can teach us about active listening
By Kristi Paulson, Special to Minnesota Lawyer Active listening helps lawyers uncover client concerns, motivations, and priorities beyond stated legal positions. Effective listening improves advocacy, negotiation, mediation, witness preparation, and […]
Legally Speaking: The eyes have it in legal settings
In courtrooms, mediation rooms, and chambers across the country, lawyers are trained to listen — to the words, the arguments, the evidence. But some of the most revealing messages in […]
Gov. Josh Stein appoints six legal professionals to state boards
Gov. Josh Stein appointed six legal professionals to serve on North Carolina state boards, including David L. Hayden, Brandon Lofton and Margaret Abrams.
Lawyers face new guidance on AI, tech competence
Lawyers face new ethics guidance on AI use, with New York’s bar associations clarifying technology competence obligations for responsibly adopting generative AI in legal practice.
How lawyers can leverage personal connections to build practices
Lawyers can grow practices by leveraging personal connections. Asking questions, offering help, and identifying the right contacts turn networking into service rather than sales.
Even good lawyers can find themselves sued by clients
In practice for 43 years, M. Dawes Cooke Jr. has defended his share of legal malpractice cases for attorneys, and he knows that simply doing everything right and maintaining proper […]
Firms learn cloud computing is promising, has pitfalls
By Nicole Black ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Years ago, after the American Bar Association published my “Cloud Computing for Lawyers” book, I was often asked to speak to lawyers about the […]
Lawyers named to state panels by governor
Gov. Roy Cooper has named two North Carolina lawyers to state agency panels, including one as a chair. James W. Norment, of New Bern, was appointed chair of the Tryon […]
Phishing attack targets NC lawyers
Courts in North Carolina’s three federal districts are sounding the alarm about phishing attempts using an email that purports to be from the federal court system. Warnings on the websites […]
State sets more training on eCourts system
Virtual and in-person eCourts training sessions are now available as the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts prepares to move another group of counties to the electronic filing system […]
Building a public profile builds a practice
By Ellen Keiley Lawyers who stand out in their community have probably taken the time and diligently worked to build their brand. Visibility has numerous benefits. Lawyers who are known […]
Ethical challenges of representing clients with diminished capacity
By Sari W. Montgomery With an increasingly aging population, more and more lawyers face the prospect of dealing with clients with diminished capacity. While lawyers must maintain a normal attorney-client […]
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