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If you are having difficulties with finances and are considering debt consolidation or bankruptcy, you may also be considering hiring a bankruptcy lawyer. Of course, for those who are in a financial rut or on the verge of financial ruin, coming up with extra funds to pay a bankruptcy lawyer …

Mesothelioma is one kind of a disease and a certain type of cancer that is caused by over or prolonged exposure to asbestos. The most affected areas of the body are the lungs, heart and stomach. Most cases of mesothelioma are those that are acquired while working in places where …

Does your firm’s website have a form link for potential legal clients to send inquires through to your law firm,? If so, you may be wasting your, or your assistant’s, time! I’ll preface this by saying that many of the Internet legal client prospects you deal with in your career …

Asbestos cases are notorious for having fraudulent claims mixed in with the real ones. For companies to help protect these claims through pre-packaged bankruptcy filings to avoid exposure is counterproductive. Asbestos cases that are filed in Federal Court are all transferred to one judge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This federal judge …

An ideal lawyer will not just have a string of impressive credentials or gold lettering on his door. He or she will be caring, concerned, and devoted to their work. You need to think carefully before laying your trust in a lawyer after all in some cases your life, future, …

Professional liability insurance is a necessity for lawyers. Unfortunately, not all lawyers are able to secure the coverage they need in the standard marketplace because they are considered to be a “distressed” risk. The question is, what exactly does “distressed” mean? A “distressed” risk is one that has difficulty securing …

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and sixpence, result misery”. Mr. Micawber’s remarks on debt remain just as true today, perhaps more so with the explosion of credit cards, as they did when Dickens …

Lawyers have several sets of rules to consider when creating advertisements. The FTC regulates all advertising in every state; each state may have its own regulations governing advertising; and the attorney ethics rules of the state in which you are advertising will regulate lawyer advertising. A review of FTC rules …

I get calls every week from lawyers saying they’re not getting calls anymore from yellow page advertising. Having done quite well in the past, they’re afraid to discontinue the advertising. They want to know what’s going on and what to do. Apparently, lawyers are not the only ones. In his …

If you’ve ever dreamed of one day becoming a lawyer but you’ve been hesitant to take the plunge, a viable alternative would be a legal assistant or paralegal. Both are two peas in a pod and thus either one is probably as close as you can get to becoming a …