While attending an Elderlaw Conference recently, one of the panels discussed the resources available through our Department of Community Health and other agencies for individuals who are developmentally disabled. One of the panel members was the parent of a child who she had brought up to adulthood using some of the resources available through […]

Mediation may be the Answer If you look up Trial Lawyer Magazine for July, 1988 (I believe that was the issue), you will find an article, “Client’s Perceptions of Litigation” which has excellent content and demonstrates why mediation is often a better means of resolving conflict for a client than litigation. One example posed in that […]

What is the difference between a “lawyer” and an “attorney” or is there a difference? Years ago, a student in Georgia told me that he was clerking for a judge. Routinely, the judge would refer to lawyers and attorneys in a manner that seemed to imply that they were different? He didn’t want to share […]

  Publish something in a local newspaper, internet site, or periodical about current events of interest to the public to increase your exposure and reach potential clients. Recently, in an attempt to get my students to try something to promote themselves, I gave them an assignment to write 500 work copy that they might want […]