Category: Legal News

After researching trends in lawyer billing rates, you have decided to increase your rates . It can be uncomfortable. We may be reluctant to charge the value we really are worth or feel guilty about raising rates for our long-term clients. While we may have difficulty serving clients in high-rent markets like New York and San Francisco, it… Continue reading Communication with clients: How to explain a rise in your rates

Drug companies are recalling batches of Zantac (Ranitidine) and Axid (Nizatidine) proton-pump inhibitors because of contamination by a cancer-causing impurity. Mylan Pharmaceuticals is conducting a voluntary nationwide recall, to the consumer level, of three lots of Nizatidine Capsules, (including the 150mg and 300mg strengths).Appco Pharma LLC is voluntarily recalling prescription ranitidine hydrochloride capsules.Northwind Pharmaceuticals is… Continue reading Recalls Underway for Zantac and Axid Antacids Because of Cancer Impurity

Casting aside Ethicon’s “broad-spectrum attack on the judgment,” the 7th US Circuit Court upheld a $20 million verdict to a woman who was permanently injured by the company’s Prolift pelvic mesh device. Ethicon appealed in Barbara Kaiser v. Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon, Inc., No. 18-2944. An Indiana state jury had awarded $35 million to… Continue reading 7th Circuit Upholds $20 Million Verdict Against Ethicon in Pelvic Mesh Case

Executives at Juul Labs Inc ignored early signs that their products were hooking teenagers, according to a Reuters investigation published Tuesday. Juul managers reportedly knew that young people were attracted to their products shortly after they went on sale in 2015 when teenagers called in asking where they could buy the device, a former company… Continue reading Juul ignored early signs it was hooking teens

A 10-year-old girl was raped, tortured and beaten as she was sold for sex at two Big Apple motels while staff turned a blind eye to her obvious abuse, a bombshell $10 million lawsuit filed Tuesday claims. The suit, filed in Brooklyn federal court and the first of its kind in New York, claims Wyndham… Continue reading Bombshell $10M suit claims two NYC hotels turned a blind eye to sex trafficking

Clients come to you or your website because they have a problem to solve. No matter how intellectually interesting that problem may be to you, it’s a human and emotional problem to your client (or potential client). Even a contract dispute over the interpretation of a cessation of business clause, excused performance under a force… Continue reading Writing and Editing for Empathy in Legal MarketingDoes your latest COVID-19 blog post meet these re

With significant advancements in automation and artificial intelligence, it’s easier than ever for attorneys to gather and analyze legal data to gain powerful business development and intelligence insights. This article is the second in a three-part series discussing the what, how and why of open legal data. In the first part, we discussed what open… Continue reading How Automation and AI Make Open Data Possible and Valuable for Lawyers

At this stage of your career, you might think reading documents is a baseline skill you’ve mastered just fine, thanks. But, whether you realize it or not, you probably spend more time reading documents in Microsoft Word than actually drafting them — especially if you have gone paperless. Since all that onscreen reading can exhaust… Continue reading Tricks for Reading Documents in Microsoft Word

Storytelling is powerful. There are few things people love more than a good story. Stories inspire; they can evoke powerful emotions and unleash our imaginations. Great Marketers understand the power of storytelling. Great marketers use storytelling as a tactic to build their businesses. In the legal world, this means developing a narrative around your firm… Continue reading Storytelling: Your Most Powerful Connection to New Clients

With so much change and so many unanswered questions, there’s never been a better time to stand out through your thought leadership. Writing and publishing content often feels like tossing a needle into the internet haystack. That’s challenging enough. But if all you’re doing is recycling the same old ideas, and trying to make them… Continue reading Thought Leadership Marketing: Write for Someone, Not Everyone

As much as we like to believe that if we do everything well, our clients will always love us, it’s just not true. Here are 10 steps to soothe an angry client. You know the scenario. It’s the end of the day. The phone rings and you pick it up, knowing you really shouldn’t. You… Continue reading Calming Down an Angry Client

Keeping clients when your firm is changing is a tricky business and involves a lot of reassurance — not just for them, but for you. I vividly remember interviewing a client about his relationship with his law firm, my client. While he was very satisfied with the firm’s work and the people doing it, he… Continue reading Keeping Clients While Managing Extraordinary Change

Remember when working remotely was taboo? awyers working anywhere but a traditional bricks-and-mortar office with their firm name on the door typically glossed over their nontraditional working environment. Over time, the taboo surrounding less traditional work setups began to ease, and early in 2020, when COVID-19 hit the world, the stigma had all but disappeared.… Continue reading Where Do Lawyers Work Today? The Ethics and Acceptance of Working Remotely

Whether you manage your firm’s digital marketing strategy yourself or outsource your marketing, lawyers — especially small law firm owners — need to stay on top of the latest digital marketing advancements to ensure their websites continue to drive potential clients their way. As we round out the month of January, let us take a… Continue reading Top Digital Marketing Trends for Law Firms in 2022

Feeling exhausted? There are many kinds of rest we need to feel well-rested. Of course, we all know sleep is important for both physical and mental stamina. In fact, lack of sleep has serious consequences, such as reducing our immune system’s effectiveness and increasing cravings for simple carbohydrates. But did you know there are at… Continue reading 5 Kinds of Rest: Avoiding Exhaustion Means More Than Getting Enough Sleep

federal jury on Thursday sided with two service members who say they suffered hearing damage from using 3M earplugs, awarding the men $110 million in damages, the largest verdict in the sprawling multidistrict litigation’s bellwether series to date, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs. The Pensacola federal jury awarded U.S. Army veterans William Wayman and… Continue reading 3M Hit With $110M Verdict In Fla. Military Earplug Bellwether

Magistrate judge on Friday quashed GlaxoSmithKline’s subpoenas for more information from pharmacy Valisure LLC in multidistrict litigation over heartburn drug Zantac after finding the information sought in the subpoenas has limited importance to the litigation. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart said he had “serious questions” as to whether the evidence covered by the subpoenas… Continue reading Drugmakers Won’t Get Discovery From Valisure In Zantac MDL

One of the most important steps in mental and emotional health is to be aware of your inner thoughts. Over the past few decades, we have discovered a great deal about how the brain works, including how trauma, stress and anxiety affect our reality. For example, cognitive bias and burnout color how we feel about… Continue reading The Enemy Within: Are Your Thoughts Sabotaging Your Success?

Good lawyer-client relations are less about you knowing the answers and much more about knowing the right questions to ask. It’s one of the fundamentals they drummed into you in law school: It is your job to know the answers. That’s why clients seek your help, right? How you prove you are smart, and why… Continue reading Five Questions to Ask a New Client