Credibility: Truth, Lies, and Exaggerations
In every client engagement and resulting matter, a lot is riding on credibility-credibility with your counsel, the jury and the tribunal. It’s the main way that a jury and tribunal evaluate [...]
Three Reasons Why Lawyers Don’t Need Insurance
*Spoiler alert: there aren’t any*; every attorney should have lawyer’s professional liability coverage (“LPL”). Unfortunately, many attorneys labor under common misconceptions about the risk of [...]
Lawyer Trust Accounts—An Ounce of Prevention is Worth More Than a Pound of Cure!
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Benjamin Franklin’s oft-repeated advice from 1735 still rings true 287 years later. Although Franklin was referring to fire prevention methods [...]
Chandler Law and CompassPoint Legal Cybersecurity Seminar coming November 2017
Cybersecurity and Legal Malpractice Prevention 1 Professionalism, 1 Ethics, 2 General 4 Total CLE Hours Douglas Chandler, a Legal Malpractice attorney with Chandler Law, and David Moon, a Legal [...]
Chandler Law’s Top 10 Tips Revisited – Part I
We often get asked to speak at CLE seminars on the topics of Risk Management, Legal Ethics, and Professional Liability. One of the more interactive parts of our presentation is our list of Top 10 [...]
Douglas Chandler, Aubrey Smith, Ben Parks, and David Moon Speak to Rome, Georgia Law Firm
On March 10, 2016, Douglas Chandler of Chandler Law, Aubrey Smith and Ben Parks of the Southern Lawyers Insurance Program, and David Moon of Lan-Tech/Compass Point Legal spoke to lawyers and [...]
Tame the wild E-mail Beast with a retention policy, and other tricks
E-mail—and by that I mean a massive volume of it—is a fact of life for all law firms these days. While there have been some folks, like Sam Glover at Lawyerist.com, who've suggested using other [...]