If you don’t have a plan, you don’t have a chance
POSTED: Sunday, March 11, 2012 at 07:42 PM PTBY: Ed Poll
One of my favorite quotes is from famed UCLA basketball coach John Wooden: “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” Intuitively we know this is true, yet many in business feel that planning is not possible in these volatile times, and that the best any organization can do is a form of white water rafting [...]
Fee-suit exclusions muddy the malpractice waters
POSTED: Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 12:59 PM PTBY: Ed Poll
The cost of malpractice insurance is an issue for every lawyer. Annual malpractice premiums cost thousands of dollars, often straining the ability of small firms and sole practitioners to purchase when premiums approach 10 percent or more of their income on a product they likely will never need. Now, a new issue has made malpractice [...]
The faces of law firm financial impropriety
POSTED: Monday, December 26, 2011 at 05:13 PM PTBY: Ed Poll
Financial fraud should, in theory, never be a concern for a law firm, where ethical considerations must predominate. After all, Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4 states clearly that “[i]t is professional misconduct for a lawyer to … commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer … [...]
