Estate Planners Beware! Medicaid Risk Assessment Is Essential!

For most traditional law school students, Medicaid and its statutory underpinnings are not on the radar. Most law schools offer classes in estate planning, yet most often, Medicaid is not integrated into that training. For that reason, many attorneys are poorly equipped to understand how their client’s estate planning may be undermined or decimated if the […]

3 Steps To Prepare For Unfamiliar Subject Matter

One of your best small business clients calls you one evening and tells you that his son just got arrested for possession of cocaine. He asks you if you will represent him. He wants you to meet with his son at the jail and attend the arraignment and bond hearing the next morning. The last […]

Five Steps To Develop A Niche Practice

There are several ways to develop a niche. It can be subject matter specific, (drone law, equine law, 3d printer law, gun trusts); it could be population specific, (ethnic populations, LGBT populations, age specific groups); finally, it could be service specific (home visit, mobile practice, geared to assist the blind, hearing impaired, children with disabilities). […]

Perfection In Practice?

Crisis Of Confidence I once heard it said that, “I experience a crisis of confidence everyday” from a solo practitioner. If you aren’t challenged and confronted with new, complex, and novel issues everyday, you probably are retired or totally missing what you should be catching. Too many lawyers get into trouble because they freeze when […]