Risk Management Newsletters
Risk Alert: Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT: Friend or Foe to the Legal Profession?
ChatGPT is a natural language-based processing tool via a chatbot that allows users to obtain answers to questions and to gain assistance drafting written communications. Additional benefits of ChatGPT include automating repetitive tasks and conducting comprehensive data searches within seconds.
How Law Firms May Avoid Claims in a Bad Economy
Experts may disagree as to whether we are in a recession, but there is no question that our economy has been in a weakened state for a lengthy time period, which may impact professional liability claims for lawyers.
Third Party Vendors and Your Practice: How Allied Vendors Help Streamline Firm Operations
As with every other aspect of our lives, technology continues to redefine how lawyers practice and how firms operate. In view of that basic premise [...]
Professional Liability Fact Sheet: Plaintiffs Personal Injury/Property Damage
The top three allegations in this area of practice are related to calendaring errors. It is imperative that attorneys and legal support staff recognize the crucial role correct calendaring plays in avoiding a legal malpractice allegation. [...]
The Devil is in the Details
It’s late Friday afternoon before a holiday, and you decide to leave early to get a head start on the long weekend. The office mail delivery is behind schedule and arrives after you leave. In your mail is a lengthy settlement demand letter in a personal injury case for which you have recently been retained by an insurance company to represent its insured [...]
Client Intake and Proper Client Selection
Are You Ready to Commit to Client Intake and Proper Client Selection? Client intake should never be dismissed as an unimportant but necessary task when taking on a new client. Creating a thorough client intake process is essential in order to establish a strong foundation for an attorney-client relationship – whether the relationship lasts for […]
The Remote-Ready Law Firm: Managing Long-Distance Relationships
The Remote-Ready Law Firm: Managing Long-Distance Relationships Good lawyers have their best suit at the ready, but may just as often don slippers and sweatpants. Seventy-two percent of lawyers telecommute at least some of the time according to the American Bar Association’s latest Profile of the Legal Profession. As legal technology grows more accessible and […]
Best Practices for Law Firms During a Pandemic
Best Practices for Law Firms During a Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt all aspects of everyday life. As the virus spreads throughout the United States and around the globe, the number of those infected will rise, as will the death rate. Governments have issued quarantines and shelter-in-place orders in an effort to combat […]
