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Way Outside: How to Rebuild Your Law Firm Practices

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

Attorneys seeking inspiration or advice on reconfiguring or revising their business practices often seek out colleagues or friends for advice. Most attorneys maintain other attorneys as colleagues and friends. So, when they’re seeking business advice, they’re getting it from other attorneys. There are a couple of problems with relying on that strategy, however.

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7 Tips for a Better Experience with Debt Collection

Credits Inc

With the fluctuating economy, consumers are having more and more trouble paying their bills. It has been estimated that at least 70 million people across the United States were contacted by a debt collection services company in 2016. If your business needs to reach out to people to get the money they owe you, there are ways to make that process go better.

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Back to Basics: District Court Opinion Serves as a Reminder that Minimum Pleading Standards Must be Met to Stave off Dismissal

Consumer Financial Services Law

By Caren Enloe and Anna Claire Turpin A recent District Court decision serves as a reminder to both Plaintiffs and Defendants to properly scrutinize a complaint for well-pleaded factual allegations. In Walker v. Lyons, Doughty & Veldhuis, P.C., et. al, No. 1:18-cv-513, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 42180 (S.D. Ohio Mar. 15, 2019), the Southern District Court in Ohio held that the Plaintiff did not include well-pleaded factual allegations in her Complaint and therefore granted the Defendants’ 12(b)(6

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Comment on This Is How a 3-Second Pause Kills Live Contact and Invites a Lawsuit by Cinda

Arbeit Software

Thanks for the terrific guide.

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From Complexity to Clarity: Strategies for Effective Compliance and Security Measures

Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.

When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.

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Proceed With Caution! Understanding Ipso Facto Clauses In Bankruptcy

BN Lawyers

The phrase ipso facto is Latin for “by the fact itself.” Ipso facto clauses are sometimes included in lease and purchase contracts, and they assert that if the lessee or purchaser becomes insolvent, or files for bankruptcy protection, then the contract has been breached. In other words, under such a clause the very act of filing for bankruptcy protection constitutes a breach of contract that absolves the other party of any further contract obligations.