What's a Primary Care Lawyer?

A primary care lawyer has nothing to do with health care, unless you consider 'peace of mind' a healthy thing. The primary care lawyer is like a primary care physician in that he is the go-to guy for all...

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Top 3 Tips for Pursuing a Novel Litigation Strategy

Being a litigator or trial attorney sometimes means going out on a limb with an untested or novel legal theory. Testing the waters of a new theory, or even a new law, can be scary. Judges will often scrutinize...

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How About a Pop-Up Law Firm?

If you can't get a traditional practice off the ground, maybe it's time to hang your shingle on a kiosk. So what if people think you're an ambulance chaser. Why not just buy an ambulance and cut to the...

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Should I Use Emojis in Court?

An emoji is worth a thousand words, and that's a legal problem. According to a Santa Clara University Law School professor, emojis and emoticons have popped up recently in at least 80 U.S. court opinions. The problem is they...

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Why Are Patent Lawyers Always in Demand?

Patent attorneys are often cast out from the traditional legal community of sharks, rainmakers, and ambulance chasers. But, unlike every other type of lawyer, of which there seems to be too many, there is a constant demand for patent...

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What's in Your Disengagement Letter?

A lawyerly disengagement letter is a bit like a 'Dear John' letter. Attorneys write them at the end of legal engagements, ideally with kindly advice and well wishes. When the relationship ends badly, however, the disengagement letter becomes more...

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How to Capitalize on Media Mentions

So you got your Andy Warhol minutes of fame from a news story, but now what? Start a reality TV show? Hire a crowd? Hang on, we're not going there. That's for politicians. We're lawyers, and we use social...

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