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In 2019, long before COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, the World Health Organization designated 2020 as “The Year of the Nurse and Midwife.” In addition, the American Nurses Association has extended their annual “Nurses Week” to take place for ...

Tagged with: Coronavirus Health Care Nursing

Say your client or their spouse has an ownership interest in a business, and that business is marital property. Since the nationwide shutdown began, the value of that business has gone down. What do you do now? Everyone hopes this ...

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If you Google the words “leadership qualities” you will find no shortage of entries. Rather than open those links and write about what others have to say, I decided to offer observations based on my own experience. Show empathy. This ...

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In the blink of an eye, the pandemic changed everything.  Even courts have curtailed their activities.  Yet, the disputes confronting our citizens have not abated. Lawyers have responded to these challenges by using phones, desktops, laptops and tablets to mediate ...

Tagged with: Coronavirus Mediation Technology

By Sharon D. Nelson and John W. Simek © 2020 Sensei Enterprises Inc. The coronavirus pandemic has forced a lot of lawyers to utilize video conferencing to “meet” with co-workers and clients. One of the more popular video conferencing platforms ...

By Nicole Black BridgeTower Media Newswires If cybersecurity isn’t on you firm’s ra­dar this year, then it’s high time you made it a priority. The risk of a breach that could compromise your law firm’s confidential client data is an ...

By Susan Letterman White BridgeTower Media Newswires I recently read that one-third of lawyers in firms of at least 50 attorneys were pessimistic about adapting to the challenges and changes facing them. Many problems lawyers face involve generating sufficient revenue ...

By Nicole Black BridgeTower Media Newswires I started writing about cloud and mobile computing and their potential benefits for the legal profession in 2008. Two years later I began to work on a draft of my book, “Cloud Computing for ...

By Susan Letterman White BridgeTower Media Newswires [Editor’s Note: The Virginia State Bar is currently reviewing whether to make succession planning for lawyers in Virginia mandatory. Comments to the current rules state that lawyers “should” prepare for someone to continue ...

By Stephen Scott BridgeTower Media Newswires If you could have any superpower, what would it be? Many people would perhaps ask for perfect timing, because timing is everything. An individual with perfect timing would be hilarious, an amazing investor, great ...