When You Go to Heaven…

…will your practice go to Hell? That’s the question that my friend Courtney Kennaday with the South Carolina Bar asks in a recent post complete with pictures of what can happen when a solo practitioner dies without a plan in place to handle unexpected death or disability. The post links to an article [...]

ABA TECHSHOW: An Affordable Investment – Particularly in a Down Economy

I have to disclose right up front that I might be just a little bit biased since I’m chairing this year’s ABA TECHSHOW, presented by the ABA Law Practice Management Section (April 2-4), but even if I weren’t, I’d still feel this is one of the best CLE investments any lawyer can make given the [...]

Crisis Averted! – IOLTA Accounts Now Fully Covered

On Friday the FDIC issued a final rule which now classifies IOLTA accounts as non-interest bearing accounts for the purposes of the Transaction Account Guarantee Program. So, why is this important to Alabama lawyers?
Recently, a few very smart lawyers who had taken the time to think about it realized that under the interim rules [...]