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Pretty Paper: Modern Lawyers Can Still Use Pen and Paper

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

Just because you want to be a modern lawyer, that doesn’t mean that you have to give up all of your paper. For lawyers, the love of paper persists; it often hearkens back to a prior age of law practice. Many lawyers just like to write on paper, to hold it. In practice, it’s a tactile sensation. Yes, it’s a real ink pen.

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Web Client: Move Beyond Referral Marketing

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

All lawyers have marketed their law firms in the same fashion since time in memoriam. Even as the world around law firms has changed over time, that one constant has not changed. Of course , most of those preferred mechanisms do not align with how attorneys work to acquire and convert leads. We can help.

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Why Every Lawyer And Client Should Be Fighting To Stop The "Meaningful Attorney Involvement" Doctrine From Spreading

FDCPA Defense

Few things are more fundamental in the law than the principle that a lawyer owes a duty of loyalty to the client, a duty to be vigorous advocate within the bounds of the law, and a duty to maintain the client’s confidences and preserve the attorney-client privilege. Your law firm is also named a defendant.

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Attempting Debt Collection Efforts After a Debtor Files for Bankruptcy

FFGN COLLECT NY

If so your collection attorney is exposing you, the law firm, and themselves to personal liability for a money judgment that could far exceed your claim. Make sure when engaging collection counsel, whether it be for demand, mediation, arbitration, foreclosure of mechanics lien, or judgment recovery, they do the right thing.

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What is a Judgment?

Credit Corp

This can include utility companies, medical professionals, cell phone service providers and auto mechanic shops. Speak with a bankruptcy lawyer to learn whether this will help your situation. This includes opening a credit card account, getting a line of credit from your bank and obtaining financing for a big purchase. Privacy Policy.

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Ambiguous Language in Validation Notice Creates Disputed Issue of Material Fact on Meaningful Attorney Involvement Claim

Consumer Financial Services Law

The debtor advanced seven discrete FDCPA claims in connection with the notice, although the law firm defendant successfully moved for summary judgment on six of those claims. The disclosure at issue placed the law firm in a somewhat awkward position. Wolpoff & Abramson, L.L.P. , 3d 292, 301 (2d Cir. Jackson , 988 F.2d

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Searching For The Meaning Of “Meaningful Involvement”

FDCPA Defense

When, if ever, should collection law firms include disclaimers on their collection letters, indicating that no attorney of the firm has reviewed the particular circumstances of the debtor’s file? Jackson, Attorney at Law, General Counsel, NCB Collection Services” – and defendant attorney’s mechanically-reproduced “signature.”