Florida Legal Ethics: Ethics Titles, Practice Guides, and Technology Books

Florida Bar CLE information on legal ethics.

This book provides guidance for legal assistants and attorneys as to what ethical rules apply to them in a variety of practice situations.

Florida Legal Malpractice and Attorney Ethics is the "go-to" authority on professional responsibility.  The authors--trial attorney Warren R. Trazenfeld and law professors Timothy P. Chinaris and Robert M. Jarvis--provide a highly useful overview of the field and a ready starting point for whenever questions arise.

This book covers the ethical rule that govern the relationship between attorneys and paralegals.

This guide is a practical resource for those firms that want to provide better client service and at the same time, improve the working environment for both lawyers and staff. It provides strategies to change the climate of the law firm, boost morale, and effectively and efficiently manage the firm. Issues discussed range from leadership and partnership issues to the basics of running the office. Includes a companion CD-ROM with more than 25 model forms, agreements, worksheets, questionnaires, policy forms, and more.

The contributors share time-tested advice on approaches, methods, systems, and perspectives that have resulted in thriving solo and small firm law practices in the real world. This book contains proven solutions for problems and issues that, sooner or later, every practitioner will have to face.

This work addresses the ethical issues for the practitioner in the areas of public relations, operation of multiple-office law firms, and dual professional practice as they have been interpreted by the courts, disciplinary agencies, and ethics advisory committees.

This step-by-step guide is the key to developing a tailor-made office procedures manual, containing everything from client data sheets and docket control systems, to employee benefits and file management policies. In addition, the entire text is included on CD-ROM fr easy customization.

Through practical examples and explanations, this volume explores how to build and manage an environmental law practice. It covers: the specialized business aspects of environmental law practice; developing and maintaining the ideal clientele mix; and the technology, tactics and tools needed.

This book provides advice on how to hire and use top notch paralegals to achieve success in providing clients with quality service.

Practical and engaging introduction to Law Office Management for paralegals. Features: Comprehensive overview of the basics of law office management in today's legal environment. Features real-world examples of law office management issues faced in the law office today. Includes helpful vocabulary, constructive discussion starters, and useful case excerpts underscoring core concepts. All of these help instructor's engage students with the material.

The author takes a fresh look at specific ways to create a client-centric law firm and deliver exceptional client service by differentiating a law firm from other firms, and the specific skills and strategies needed to build effective and productive relationships that result in successful business development. The book provides practical ideas and tactics for addressing the key areas of a law firm-- managing, leading, team building and compensation, client service, and new business development. Writing in an engaging and witty but no-nonsense style, the author speaks directly to the reader, cutting through the stereotypes and misconceived notions that haunt the legal profession and coaching the lawyer to reach beyond the norm.

Biometrics is the most accurate form of identifiers and, when used properly, can greatly simplify life. However, biometrics raise new questions about personal privacy, surveillance, and the effects of government and corporate databases that register and hold fingerprint data and other biometric information. This book covers such topics as ID cards, data theft, authentication, and digital rights management.

The evolving information society is creating new economic, cultural and political opportunities. However, it also brings with it new issues and risks, which pose fresh challenges to every legal system. This collection contains articles, authored by leading scholars in pertinent legal fields from all around the world, analyzing and attempting to meet these challenges. The articles contained in this collection present multifaceted intersections of law, information and information technology in the following fields: The Emerging Legal Field of Information Law Privacy Law Intellectual Property Law Internet Law and Regulation Stock Market Law Authentication of Electronic Messages and its Legal Implications

Technology in the Law Office, 3e builds a strong foundation in technology concepts, applications and vocabulary so students are prepared to work effectively in today's law office. This new edition includes an early chapter on ethics and two chapters devoted to electronic discovery. With a focus on self-reliance, it helps students develop a hands-on understanding of the most popular legal software programs, including AbacusLaw, Tabs3, SmartDrawLegal, LexisNexis CaseMap and TimeMap, and Sanction II. This edition includes new video case studies and more references to Microsoft Office applications, making it an outstanding reference for those studying and working in the legal field.

Richard Susskind is one of the world's leading experts on the application of information technology in the legal field, and an independent consultant to the government, private sector law firms and industry. His previous books, Expert Systems in Law (OUP, 1987) and The Future of Law (OUP,1996), have both served to set the agenda for the serious discussion of the subject. This new volume features major new essays that analyse where the legal marketplace and community has now got to in applying and responding to the new technological possibilities, and examines the key issues thatmust now be tackled (in particular knowledge management and electronic commerce). It also includes eleven of Richard Susskind's most important past essays, on the legal application of IT, each updated to make clear their continued relevance to law and justice today.

This ground-breaking guide introduces lawyers and other professionals to a powerful class of software that supports core aspects of legal work. The author discusses how technologies like practice systems, work product retrieval, document assembly, and interactive checklists help people work smarter. If you are looking to work more effectively, this book provides a clear roadmap, with many concrete examples and thought-provoking ideas.

Broken into four thorough sections--Being a Rainmaker, Brain Basics, Rainmaker Techniques, and Tips from the Front Line--The Associate as Rainmaker contains specific techniques for business development. c The book also includes a business development checklist that contains tips for each year you're an associate, as well as several appendices with exercises, goals sheets, and time management forms.

Legal research has changed dramatically in the past 20 years, first with the development of electronic legal research using Lexis and Westlaw and then with the introduction of the internet which has forever changed the traditional manual approach to legal research into a hybrid of both manual and electronic legal research.