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Divorce clients frequently raise concerns that spouses are hiding assets or income. Often, however, such concerns are the product of the other spouse’s attempts to manipulate the client into staying in the marriage or believing she will ultimately “lose” anyway, ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations

Divorce can be bad business for your client. Mixing a business and its assets with a divorce can become financially and emotionally devastating for the couple and their family, as well as the employees and co-owners. Division of property is ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations

Et tu, Google? The recent shift in Google’s privacy policy has to rank as one of the most significant items in technology news so far this year. Google will now combine all your data from all Google services, and users ...

Tagged with: Social Media Technology

BALTIMORE– Gorgeous gowns, amazing cakes, fabulous florists, luxury limousines: Bridal show vendors typically are focused on making a couple’s wedding day fantasies a reality-show dream come true. At one booth at a recent bridal show in Baltimore, the fantasy took ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Legal Marketing

In litigation, medical records can be a minefield of details. A nurse has scribbled an illegible note in the margin. A page from another patient’s file has slipped into the record. A key handwritten dosage isn’t clear. And when the ...

Tagged with: Practice Tips

Dean Wigmore stated that cross-examination is beyond doubt “the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of the truth.” But, truth is rarely what a skillful trial lawyer seeks to accomplish on cross-examination. Cross-examination is not only a truth-seeking ...

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If 2011 was the year that lawyers finally took notice of Internet-based and mobile technologies — if only because these tools affected evidentiary issues in their practices — then 2012 will be the year that most lawyers not yet using ...

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Wisconsin lawyer Dawn Drellos-Thompson realized a few years ago that her small business owner or minimum-wage earning clients could not afford most mediators. So she started a separate mediation practice, charging half or less of the Milwaukee-area market rate. She ...

Tagged with: ADR

Senior partners want to retire. Emerging leaders want a greater stake in their companies and a say in their direction. Everybody wants some assurance of financial stability now and in the future. In good times, funding retirement and leadership transition ...

Tagged with: Wealth Management

When it comes to association memberships for lawyers, the first thing you must do is join the right organizations, those where your clients, referral sources and prospective clients hang out, and be active in them. It’s that simple, right? There ...