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8 Tips to Get Your Email Read…and Answered.

May 18, 2011 by

If there’s one thing we do a lot of as lawyers, it’s write, and read, a lot of email. Making sure an email is read is as important as the information in it. An unread email might as well not be sent (except for liability reasons, but that’s another blog post…).

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Some tips from a graduate of Utah’s New Lawyer Training Program

January 12, 2011 by

Last year, the Utah Bar Association for the first time implemented the “New Lawyer Training Program,” (NLTP) a requirement for new lawyers in Utah. The goal of the Utah NLTP is to match new lawyers with more experienced lawyers for training during their first year of practice in professionalism, ethics, and civility; to assist new […]

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Law Practice Tip #3: Declining Representation

December 20, 2010 by

If you’re like me, you occasionally get calls from family or friends about legal issues, and not because they want to hire you. Additionally, because you’re a lawyer, you get those occasional legal questions while out and about socially. People making conversation. Or so you think. Until suddenly you get a notice from the court […]

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Law Practice Tip #1: Market Yourself Non-Stop

November 23, 2010 by

One thing they spend very little time teaching in law school, if any at all, is how to make money as a lawyer. Which is ironic, because all of us have heard the jokes about lawyers and their greed. How do you make a penny into a wire? Give it to a lawyer. Or how about this […]

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