LPLC's Engagement Decision Tool helps you develop a more manageable approach to client engagement.
Lawyers can get themselves into hot water when they neglect to go through a thorough client engagement process.
Our handy engagement decision tool can help you develop a more manageable approach.
Make it routine for every client and every matter.
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LPLC has created a very basic, generic File Note template as a MS word (.dotx) file for practitioners and firms to download, adapt and use to create electronic file notes. The template can also be printed to use as a hardcopy, handwritten file note.
Seminar from 2019's Risk Management Intensive. Presented by Stephen Bubb, Risk Manager, LPLC.
Do you have a file that has been sitting unattended for a while? If left for too long, these files can lead to a complaint or a claim. Here are some strategies to keep files out of the too-hard basket.
Creating a file note following every client contact is a habit that every lawyer, particularly early career lawyers, should focus on as a fundamental skill that will stand them in good stead throughout their working lives. Lawyers who have developed this habit do it routinely as part of their work practice. Creating file notes is good risk management, increases file handling efficiency and is critical to avoid, resolve or defend a disputed issue raised by clients.
Failure to carry out crucial risk management practices in a law firm can ultimately lead to unexpected costs. Here is a breakdown of some of the costly consequences of ignoring risk management.
The Legal Practitioners’ Liability Committee is delighted to welcome Justin Graham KC as a new Committee member commencing in March 2025.
The Legal Practitioners' Liability Committee and staff congratulate recent committee member, Adrian Finanzio SC, on his appointment as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Legal practitioners acting in property transactions take note that the foreign resident capital gains withholding (FRCGW) rules are changing on 1 January 2025.
