Are Law Firms Liable for Serving Booze to Intoxicated Employees?

Where does a law firm cross the line when it provides alcohol to its employees? In a case against the Gladstone Law Group, it wasn't when the firm escorted a paralegal out of the building for being drunk. And...

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The Perils of Copying and Pasting Without Attribution

Copy and paste. It's such a common practice, it's practically one word. Lawyers do it all the time, too. But you can't copy other people's words without attribution. It's not just about copyright and plagiarism; it's about embarrassment....

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3 Lessons From the Dentons Sexual Harassment Scandal

The way things went down at Dentons, #MeToo may soon be a term in Black's Law Dictionary. A business specialist has sued the law firm, alleging a supervisor sexually harassed her. The plaintiff says a managing director propositioned her...

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Why Signs on the Door Matter

If you advise businesses, or run your own brick and mortar practice, you know, the signage on the door, and even in the parking lot, matters. And not just legally, from the customer's perspective, if your door says "push"...

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Should Rural Lawyers Rethink Their Billing Strategies?

If you didn't know, they do things differently in Small Town, U.S.A. Not that every rural community has only one sheriff or three billboards. But you probably won't find a lawyer in places like Zzyxx, California. That could be...

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No Moral Turpitude for Lawyer's Misdemeanor DUIs

Raj Tanden got some good news and some bad news from the California State Bar Court. The good news was that the court's review panel found no moral turpitude for his misdemeanor DUI's. That was huge because moral turpitude can...

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Should You Ghostwrite for a Pro Se Litigant?

For a growing number of legal practitioners and courts, the answer to the title question is a resounding yes. What matters most is how you do it. After all, it would seem contrary to ordinary logic to discourage attorneys...

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