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New clients are the lifeblood of legal practice, and a scattershot marketing approach is counterproductive to securing them.

When taking a new case, a smart lawyer crafts a detailed engagement letter that documents the scope of his responsibilities to the client. The document serves a crucial role in spelling out the terms of the representation. Less attention, however, ...

First Amendment cases can be tough. The unpopular opinion gets protected. That's the price of freedom.

Someone sues you and wins a big ruling. Surprised at your loss, you then learn the judge owns shares in a company that will benefit from his decision. That’s supposed to be impartial? There has got to be a rule ...

We all remember that English teacher who asked us to write an essay on how we spent our summer vacation. Every year we were asked the same question, but each summer there were different experiences and adventures that created special ...

Technology may advance rapidly, but the law is generally slow to change. Still, when we take a look at the big picture over the last several years, patent law has undergone several important changes that likely affect the way engineering ...

As France celebrates Bastille Day today, one of its best-known citizens, Roman Polanski of Paris, has a special reason to honor the storming of a prison. Thirty-three years after he raped a 13-year-old girl in Los Angeles, Polanski has been ...

The answer is two.

Once their secrets are revealed, some lawyers leave no doubt that they crossed the line and left it far, far behind. Take Scott Rothstein, who will be spending the next 50 years in a federal prison for running a $1.2 ...

While speaking at a recent conference, I suggested that the successful law firm of the future will use technology to create and enhance its effort at knowledge management. The firm that is able to retrieve its pre-existing knowledge and use ...

The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said he was "disappointed" at the end of Elena Kagan's testimony last week, fearing she would move the U.S. Supreme Court leftward.