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Whether you are a laid-off lawyer, a recent law school grad discouraged about finding a job in a recession, or a seasoned solo practitioner, you will benefit from reading Solo by Choice by Carolyn Elefant. The book aims at a reader who is opening a new law practice.
Published in January 2008, Carolyn Elefantâs book, Solo by Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be was the most comprehensive book on solo practice in five years. Unique from other how-to guides of the âstarting a firmâ genre, Solo by Choice makes a powerful case for why lawyers might consider starting a law firm and then shows how lawyers can do so by âŚ
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From the blog of James Publishing: " Expert Depositions â 5 Tips to Improve Your Effectiveness ," by Donna Cole.
Looking for a book about trial practice or legal tech? I've reviewed a number on this blog. Some of these reviews can be found in the following posts--
James Publishing, which publishes books for lawyers, has started a new Attorney Education Center on its website. The Education Center provides free books and guides, with new titles added each month. Here's what's available now--
How to Feed a Lawyer (and Other Irreverent Observations from the Legal Underground) is now available at Amazon, in both print and e-book formats.
At Simple Justice, Scott Greenfield reviews Mark Herrmann's new book: Inside Straight: Advice about Lawyering, In-House and Out, That Only the Internet Could Provide --
I'm hard at work on the sixth yearly update to Deposition Checklists and Strategies. My update is due in September and will be out toward the end of the year.
The fifth revision to my book, Deposition Checklists and Strategies, has been published by James Publishing.
Good lawyers have the ability to tell compelling stories. No matter what the complexities of the case, they can capably explain a chain of events to judges and juries so that they understand. The best lawyers are also able to construct narratives that have an emotional impact on their intended audiences.
The legal profession is inherently stressful, but it doesnât have to harm your health. The Anxious Lawyer provides a straightforward 8-week introductory program on meditation and mindfulness, created by lawyers for lawyers.
Covering the what, why, and how of running a client-centered practice, with examples from law firms leading this revolution as well as practical strategies for implementation, The Client-Centered Law Firm is a rallying call to unlock the enormous untapped demand in the legal market by providing client-centered experiences, improving internal processes, and raising the bottom line. Although we may be a tad biased since Jack is Clioâs CEO, with the in-depth implementation strategies included in this book, we promise you wonât regret adding it to your reading list of best books for lawyers.
Want to get the fundamentals of running a law firm in one clear, concise guide? Clioâs lawyer in residence, Joshua Lenon, recommends this ABA bestseller as a great starting point.
While The E-Myth Attorney was popular, one lawyer recommended a different Michael Gerber book insteadâThe E-Myth Revisitedâwhich focuses on the broader context of starting a small business, not just a law firm:
The Checklist Manifesto is a book written by a surgeon on the importance of, well, checklists. It really fits the narrative of getting things done and delegating effectively for a professional.
What makes or breaks a business? Jim Collins did intensive research to find out, studying a set of companies that achieved great results and sustained those results for at least 15 years. His findings may be helpful for those aiming to grow their law firms.
Peter Druckerâ s famous Innovation and Entrepreneurship (1985) provides an accessible intro-. duction to the subject, but perhaps relies more on intuition and experience than on empirical. research. A number of writers have looked at innovation from a process perspective; good.
To manage the changing innovation landscape a key strategic decision for owner-managers of SMEs is the extent to which they adopt open innovation. Extant research however has tended to study open innovation processes in terms of a binary distinction- either open or closed. The purpose of this paper is to move beyond this dichotomous framing and identify the extent of openness in the innovation processes of SMEs in Europe. Furthermore, the study explores the association between internal firm-specific factors related to the capabilities and strategies of the firm and open innovation in SMEs. This study explores if (a) innovation objectives, (b) innovation activities, and (c) innovation expenditures, influence the extent of openness in the innovation process in SMEs. Drawing on data from the 6th Community Innovation Survey (CIS) of 9,949 SMEs from nine European countries, hypotheses are tested using hierarchical multiple regression analysis. The study contributes to the literature by showing that the extent of openness in the innovation process is low for European SMEs. SMEs are more likely to be characterised by higher levels of openness in their innovation if they prioritise product/process innovation objectives, conduct internal R&D, purchase/license external knowledge, and commitment more financial resources to innovation.
This chapter represents a conceptual study of a new theoretical perspective for understanding how social movements can accelerate post-industrial turn by changing the mental models of customers, entrepreneurs and policymakers. The social movements are examined in the context of a new rural development paradigm which is emerging as a set of responses to the old, agroindustrialization paradigm by several paradigm innovations that can be defined as a radical change in the underlying mental models. The new opportunities for rural regions mostly determine three paradigm innovations: (1) Turning from technological to non-technological drivers of development; (2) Transitioning from product-driven to service-driven business model; (3) Shifting from competitive and exploitative to collaborative and synergistic relationships. Examination of social movements through the prism of three paradigm innovations provides a new systemic tool for understanding drivers of radical non-technological innovations and the role of social movements in innovation processes. The suggested framework offers a new way of understanding and contextualizing why, how and where a new generation of social movements for rural development mobilize for change and maybe an umbrella and fruitful direction for future research on all kinds of contemporary social movements, by explaining their difference in character than movements of the past.
Innovation, generally based on curiosity and intuition, is defined asa discovery, invention and an R&D process that brings solutions to asocial, environmental and technological problem and also that createsvalue and meets communal needs in product, process, market,organizational and socialfields. All over the world, investments are basedon capital accumulation; the idea of having more output with less input is based on production info; and technologies, production volume, the riseof motivation are based on labor force and therefore, they are all acceptedas indicators of economic growth. Capital accumulation, technologicaldevelopments and increase in labor force constitute the main dynamics ofgrowth of the global world economy. Technological progress doesnât only provide high output and productivity but it also creates economicgrowth. Since growth in economic sense corresponds to the rise in toolsand products that are used to meet human needs, innovations create newemployment and business lines at this point. On the other hand;innovations, in social sense, fight against poverty, inequality and alsoexclusion being related to them. Innovations offer technological,effective, productive and sustainable solutions to these problems in socialsense.While developed countries that are more advanced in technologyand economic growth, constitute only one fifth of the world population,they use four of five of the world resources and therefore, the gap between developing countries and them is increasing everyday. Thissituation is seen as an obstacle in front of the aim of a sustainable world.Since the direction of technological innovation is determined by socialand economic needs, innovation types such as radical (disruptive),incremental, contrary, operational and marketing innovations create aneffect of leverage with its niche role in sustainable development. Many problems, which are untouched in economic, social and technologicalsenses and also which are seen desperate to solve, can only be solvedthrough paradigm-shifting and disruptive (radical) innovations thatshould be applied in a way that will break the existing taboos. Disruptiveinnovations create new business lines by bringing radical solutions for the problems that seem unsolvable and stepwise (incremental, staggered)innovations strenghten the sub-innovations in these new businesslines.At this point; opening the way for innovations, attachingimportance to creative ideas to increase efficiency, evaluating the contribution of innovation and also managing the processes well are quiteimportant in innovation management. The authors in this book considerinnovations in different fields by evaluating the effects of innovations onlabor market, society and economy in order to manage the process welland contribute to it.
The solution, according to the author, is the intrapreneur: one who takes a hands-on responsibility for creating innovation within the organization. Using a case study approach, the book analyzes characteristics of intrapreneurs, the intrapreneurial process, and how companies can develop an intrepreneurial culture.
I am a lawyer practicing in a pretty diverse area. I speak English, Sinhala, and Tamil, and I take meetings in all three languages.
I had a client come into my office to deal with her brotherâs estate. Her brother, unmarried and childless, had known he was terminal for almost a year before he died. He chose to spend that year applying for as many credit cards as he could and maxing them all out.