Hate Your Job? Try These Survival Skills. The New Bachelor of Arts? Why Do Only 52% of JD & LLB “General” Grads Qualify as Lawyers? Hilary Charlesworth: How Universal is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Attract Home Job Clients with an IKEA Gestalt. Sometimes, the transition from your mom’s basement to a more professional office with hot tub, bar, and a vending machine can be a bit hard to do.
Sure, you could coffice sporadically from Starbucks as a transition, but there are better alternatives for the full professional office experience. While many new firms shop at IKEA for furniture and accesssories, most firms stop there and don’t extend the IKEA gestalt to other areas of their practices—including officing at IKEA. That’s too bad. IKEA makes money by buying things in bulk and leaving it up to the consumer to cart things home and build them using wordless instructions and tiny tools. It’s not a tough leap to apply it to your practice, especially to help all the DIY folks who like to practice law as a hobby or buy legal documents at a supermarket. Start Slow It may be exciting to set up shop in a corner of an IKEA store, especially when the Leksvik desk has that “new look” smell and feel. Rename Practice Areas Splurge for Meals C.
Client Intake is Critical to Solo Success. Starting your own solo practice can be an exciting and overwhelming endeavor (just ask Josh).
Things like marketing, a sudden loss of confidence in your legal abilities, and effective time management can easily derail a day or even a week. The multitude of responsibilities can also lead to less focus on a critical element of a successful solo attorney: client intake. Your voice is the first impression According to my unscientific math, at least half of all solo attorneys answer their own phone. That means their voice, their demeanor, and their patience (or lack thereof) will set the tone immediately.
If you are overwhelmed and crabby, that will come across to the potential client. I have a simple rule: if I am in the middle of something important or if I am crabby, I won’t answer my phone. Sure, there is a danger that the client will call someone else, or think that I can’t/won’t answer my phone. Be an active listener and pay attention to details. Google Translate. Allens Arthur Robinson: Publication: Focus: The Independent Media Inquiry: enforced self-regulation for media? Focus: The Independent Media Inquiry: enforced self-regulation for media?
7 March 2012 In brief: The recommendations of The Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Media and Media Regulation, if enacted, are profound. The Report proposes the establishment of a new independent statutory body, the News Media Council, that would have jurisdiction over news media organisations, whether print, online, radio or television. The new regulator would have power to require a news media organisation to publish an apology, correction or afford a right to reply.
Partner Ian McGill (view CV) and Lawyers Maryann Muggleston and Amy Dobbin report on the analysis and recommendations in the Report. How does it affect you? Introduction. Human Rights Law Centre. News.
2012 Constitutional Law Conference and Dinner. Venue: Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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Blogs. Occupy Woo Street. King John, modelling his Magna Carta hair I’m not the man to give you learned commentary on the Court of Appeal’s judgment in the Occupy LSX eviction case.
I don’t think there’s much call for the in house view on public law issues. I am, however, absolutely the man to poke fun at Paul Randle-Jollliffe. ESPI_Perspectives_56. Law Geek Down Under: Reflections on Wotton v Queensland. Earlier today I posted a summary of the High Court’s decision in Wotton v Queensland in which the High Court upheld provisions of the Queensland Corrective Services Act that made it an offence to obtain an interview from a prisoner without the written approval of the chief executive officer of the Department of Corrective Services, and authorised the imposition of conditions upon a parolee, which conditions in the case of Mr Wotton also restricted his ability to speak to the media about matters which, it was accepted, related to political and governmental affairs.
Bitter Lawyer. Criminal law. Asylum seekers & Refugees. Katoomba Municipal Council v The Katoomba & Leura Gas Co Ltd [1917] HCA 39; (1917) 23 CLR 292 (23 August 1917) An Oral History of the Guantánamo Bay Detention Center. Salvos Legal Update: CLE Series in March, Job Opportunity, New Office and Michael Kirby. One law for the rich, no law for the poor. Equality before the law fails in an unequal society. Instead of one legal system, class-ridden Britain now has three. Legal profession.