Articles 2024

Undue influence can be difficult to detect in a regular face-to-face client meeting. Detecting such influences through video conferencing may be even more challenging. It is therefore important to adapt to current norms and develop processes and steps to help determine if undue influence is at play in all situations. Following is a helpful checklist fo use during virtual/digital meetings or video conference calls with clients or potential clients.

A short summary of the mental health implications of smartphone addiction and how it impacts a legal practice.

A five-point legal ethics checklist to help avoid impropriety and unintentional ethical breaches when undertaking legal matters.

A short guide to saving time in your practice by improving email and file organization.

Summary and links to helpful limitation period resources provided by LAWPRO.

A short summary of advice for computing timelines in statutes and regulations.

Helpful advice for improving telephone communication skills - including five times it's best to pick up the phone, and six common bad telephone habits (and how to fix them).

A look at how COVID-19 impacts substitute healthcare decisions.

With a surge in the number of new legal tech startups come concerned citizens warning that lawyers will soon be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI). This unwarranted hype around AI is based on the misconception that we have developed a general or autonomous intelligence system - a computer system that mimics human intelligence, replicates human behavior in any context, and recognizes and resolves new problems for which it was not designed.