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Going to trial is among the most difficult tasks an attorney can be hired to do. It’s not that the actual courtroom presentation is overly challenging, especially if you’ve prepared. It’s more so that the rest of the world does not stop during trial. Taking care of all the logistics of your practice before a […]Read More

During the Gold Rush, many miners went broke because it cost so much to prospect. That’s also how many merchants got rich. One egg cost $25 in today’s dollars. Coffee, $100 per pound. A pair of boots, $2,500. In the legal marketplace today, it’s the niche practitioners who stand to profit as large law firms […]Read More

They say the best things in life are free, but they probably didn’t go to law school. Law school costs a lot of money, and maybe law school isn’t the best thing. But you don’t have to pay for law school if you know how to get a full-ride scholarship. You know already that you […]Read More

There’s an app for everything nowadays. Food delivery? There’s an app for that. Car service? There’s an app for that too. House cleaning? Yard work? Home maintenance? Catching Pokemon? Anything you want delivered? Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. There are more than a few apps for all of this and then some. Some law firms […]Read More

When Verizon bought Yahoo, it had to know that the mega data breach would come back to haunt the company. Yahoo revealed during the acquisition that hackers got into 1.5 billion email accounts, including user information, passwords and other personal information. It translated into a discount purchase price from $4.83 billion to $4.48 billion — […]

Go figure: the vast majority of California attorneys don’t want the state bar exam to get any easier. In a survey that drew responses from nearly 40,000 California lawyers and others, the State Bar said 80 percent of the respondents don’t want to lower the cut score. They generally said the test — which is […]Read More

Letting go of your landline is a little like letting go of a lifeline from a boat. You want to do it, but you don’t feel confident unless your feet are touching the bottom. “What ifs” keep popping up in your mind like shark fins circling you in the water. What you’re really afraid of is […]Read More

When it comes to managing your workforce over the summer, or in warm weather climates, having heat wave related policies can go a long way to keeping employees happy and minimizing your company’s exposure to various hot weather liabilities. Employees that suffer heat exhaustion, or heat stroke, on the job, will likely miss work, cause […]

News broke at the end of last week that the fan favorite judge of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the Honorable Richard Posner, was retiring. Here at FindLaw, we’re big fans of the Pos — after all, he’s perhaps one of the most entertaining judges in U.S. history. To honor one of our all […]Read More

Three defendants in cases pending before the federal district court in the state of Arizona won their appeal to the Ninth Circuit over the district court’s routine shackling of criminal defendants that appear in the courtroom. The IN RE: Rodrigo ZERMENO-GOMEZ decision, however, is less about shackling and more about judicial procedure. A published opinion […]

After all that Charles Murphy suffered at the hands of prison guards, his case is going to the U.S. Supreme Court over another issue: attorney’s fees. The High Court has docketed the case, Murphy v. Smith, to decide whether a portion of a judgment means “up to 25 percent” or “exactly 25 percent” for attorney’s […]Read More

You can find as many reasons as you want to leave your law firm: the boss is a jerk; advancement is unlikely; the hours are killing you, etc. But you better think it through because in the law business, it is easy to go from the frying pan into the fire. That’s because there are […]