In the Weeds: What You Need to Know About Legal Recreational Marijuana in California
Recreational marijuana is now legal in California. Here are some basics you and your clients should know:
Author: San Diego County Bar Association
Advance Payments Are Not True Retainers Under 3-700(D)(2)
My phone rang one fateful day last week, and I answered to the voice of my ecstatic friend:
The Business Lawyer Dilemma: Providing Legal Advice vs. Providing Business Advice
As a business lawyer, it’s not uncommon to find yourself in the position where a client asks you for – or where you want to give – business advice. As a lawyer, our job is to give legal advice, but in the world of business law, the lines are often blurred between “legal advisor” and “business advisor.” In this article, I discuss the differences between legal and business advice, your duty in providing advice to your client, and potential risks (and benefits) in providing business advice to your client.
Microsoft Word Tips for Attorneys
Skilled word processing staff, particularly for smaller practices and transactional attorneys, are all but gone. Attorneys must increasingly handle their own documents, generally using the not-always-friendly Microsoft WordTM. Battling with automatic numbering is not the highest and best use of your time nor your client’s wallet. With that in mind, I offer a collection of some of my most often used techniques in Microsoft Word.
Tips, Gadgets and Tricks
By Bill Kammer
Encryption Redux
I wrote recently and suggested that 2017 was the year for encryption. Hacking is very much on the minds of Americans, and lawyers and clients are frequently discussing the need for and manner of encryption to protect client confidences from interception by the man in the middle. Clients previously were concerned with encryption in place on lawyers’ servers and systems but are now focusing on ways to ensure that emails being exchanged over the internet are protected from interception and compromise.
