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LAWPRO Magazine: Changing Direction: Thinking Differently About Your Law Practice

By Dan Pinnington

The latest issue of LAWPRO Magazine – Changing Direction: Thinking Differently About Your Law Practice – is in the mail and on the web. Download entire magazine here (PDF format, size: 3.27MB)

Our cover stories this month all ask the question: Which kind of lawyer will you be? Legal guru Richard Susskind describes the five lawyer types he predicts will be in future demand. Karen Bell examines how some lawyers are innovating and resetting the legal services model. This article also contains a series of checklists to guide lawyers on the new skills and tools lawyers can use. In Strategic Resourcing: Outsourcing two outsourcing providers discuss their services, there are discussions with virtual associates and risk management tips when you outsource work. Technology opens doors to new thinking contains profiles of two firms who did interesting things with technology: one outsourced IT, the other innovated on the back of technology.

There are several other feature articles including:

• Fraud-related claims are contributing to increased claims numbers and costs – putting pressure on insurance premiums. There is an article recapping the types of frauds LAWPRO is seeing, and more importantly, some risk management tips to help you avoid being conned. We also summarized how our recent fraud alerts help prevent 18 Ontario lawyers from being victimized.
• Changes to Land Title Assurance Fund in which former Government Services Minister Ted McMeekin discusses the new fraud prevention/consumer protection measures implemented in Ontario?s land registration system.
• Debra Rolph?s Casebook column challenges retired lawyers to consider whether they have enough run-off coverage (the legal malpractice coverage in place after you retire).
• An article on the Home Buyers in Ontario Facebook group just launched by TitlePLUS.
• In our OLAP (Ontario Lawyers Assistance Plan) article this month John Starzynski focuses on recognizing and helping lawyers in distress, and in particular lawyers that might be suicidal.

Download entire magazine here (PDF format, size: 3.27MB).

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on August 10, 2009 (boomark / email).