Law’s Delay !!!!!! -By Jagruti Dekavadiya Second Year student of B.A.LL.B.(Hons.) Nirma University Ahmedabad.   Introduction According to history, in our country citizens had always access to the king for justice right from the time to Ramayana. Later on right to access justice became the part of constitution because of...

I occasionally talk with associates, in the first few years of practice ranging through senior associate levels, who tell me that they don’t need to pay attention to business development. The reasons vary. Some lawyers feel they’re “too new,” some don’t plan to make partner and think business development is...

Imagine, for a moment, a world in which a lawyer’s work and life are completely separate. No, I’m serious. Pause and imagine it. When I try to envision that world, I get deeply distressed. If work and life are separate, and if life has no part in work, what does...

Generally speaking, law firms use the phrase “client development” to refer to the process of signing clients that the firm will represent in litigation, transactions, etc. I’d like to consider another type of client development associates must consider: internal client development. As an associate, particularly a junior associate who receives...

Most of us experience a steady stream of ideas, concerns and preoccupations—to-do lists, bills and reams of information to digest and act on. As lawyers, we tend to consider the mind a great ally. After all, it churns out all the strategies and arguments that build our businesses and boost...

INTRODUCTION There have been many articles about the ethical decline of lawyers. The current research suggests that practicing attorneys feel all too comfortable overlooking their personal morals and judgment when representing their clients. A survey of younger lawyers showed that most of the respondents resolved ethical dilemmas by “retreating into...

Introduction Collaborative divorce is the new buzz word in family law practice. Its proponents enthuse about better and less costly settlements, greater client satisfaction, fewer accounts receivable, and less stress in the practice of law, than they can achieve through a conventional approach to family law disputes. How realistic are...

As a young African American woman and the first lawyer in my family, I find Justice Thurgood Marshall's life both professionally and personally inspiring. But July 2nd, which would have been Marshall's 100th birthday, is not just personally significant. It is a day where everyone who is passionate about fairness...

Colorado Bar Association Ethics Opinion 115, “Ethical Considerations in the Collaborative and Cooperative Law Contexts,” found per se violations of ethical rules when Collaborative Law involves four-way agreements between lawyers and clients. It also found that similar Cooperative Law agreements do not violate the ethical rules. Readers may wonder what...

Meditation helps us tune out the stream of information that inundates us at work and at home. It also allows us to access calmness and clarity and to de-stress from the rigors of everyday life. This article will help you start meditating on a regular basis. The beauty of meditation...

Abstract Does anyone actually know whether we produce better lawyers now than in the past? So asked Professor Hugh Brayne, concerning legal education in England and Wales in 1996 (Brayne, 1996). He observed that we certainly give students more legal education, but could not answer the question because there was...