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Law Firm Billing: 5 Ways To Ensure Your Clients Pay On Time

Practice Panther

Under this model you establish a monthly rate and charge the client on an ongoing basis before the work is performed via an evergreen trust deposit replenishment. For instance, on the 1st of each month you charge the client a flat, consistent rate via a deposit to your trust account.

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How to Champion New LegalTech: Start Small

The Cloud Court Blog

Since "deposition technology" is a relatively new space, I’ll cover some rules of thumb for evaluating new tools in a future post. A good place to start is to take advantage of new tools (and old rules – e.g., FRCP 30(b)(3) ) [iii] to create your own automated transcription and rough transcripts, versus buying them at “retail.”

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Litigators with a Data Fetish: Moneyballing Testimony

The Cloud Court Blog

I am obsessed with depositions and, in particular, their importance to the outcome of cases. That obsession extends to deposition data as well as to the psychology of the players involved: the attorneys taking and defending depositions; the witnesses being deposed; as well as the court reporters. Why on earth would we do this?

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Drawing Connections: A Guide to Visual Advocacy for Lawyers

WA Bar News

In litigation documents, visuals can focus attention in depositions or simplify data in briefs. Or take a Venn diagram of overlapping retail outlets in a trademark case. Anywhere the audience is making decisions. Across the board, legal documents are rife with opportunities to visually guide your audience.

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Strobel v. Johnson & Johnson: Got a Hearsay Problem? Don't Give Up.

Evidence at Trial

The Court explained that “[b]ecause of this shared geological provenance, asbestos is often found intergrown as an ‘accessory mineral’ within a talc deposit.” Asbestos and talc are distinct minerals, but (1) they are closely related in their geological formation, and thus (2) are often found together in nature.

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Thomas Suh and Ken Block on How LegalMation is Revolutionizing Litigation Efficiency (TGIR Ep. 222)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

That’s the law firm side, the the corporate side, I think it’s a bit different because now corporate, you know, you saw some of the retail announcements of a of a some insurance companies having to restructure and start laying off some professionals and that sort of thing. And, you know, we’ll eventually get there. I think that is possible.