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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Mar 23, 2020
While missed deadlines are always a risk management concern, the significant number of uncertainties brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic only serves to underscore the importance of remaining ever diligent in one’s effort to never miss a critical...
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Mar 18, 2020
Occasionally a lawyer will reach out to me wanting clarification on what should be covered in a letter notifying active clients, whose matters the...
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Mar 4, 2020
I’ll admit that advertising missteps rarely garner much attention from those who enforce the Rules of Professional Conduct. This shouldn’t be much...
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Karen Thalacker: Feb 25, 2020
Guest Blogger Karen Thalacker advocates that sometimes a good, old-fashioned phone call makes the most sense.
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Feb 5, 2020
The ABA’s issuance of Formal Ethics Opinion 482 in September of 2018 finally made it quite clear. Lawyers have an ethical duty to develop a disaster...
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Jan 23, 2020
In this episode of ALPS In Brief, ALPS Risk Manager Mark Bassingthwaighte shares an insightful story of a dream cruise, a freak accident, and an...
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Stacey Smith Claims Manager: Jan 16, 2020
In the Claims world, we love closure letters. Unfortunately, we rarely see them in the files – perhaps that is because attorneys who send closure...
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Jan 15, 2020
Trust, which is built upon a lawyer’s ethical duty to keep all information relating to the representation of a client confidential, is the hallmark...
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Rob Tameler, Claims Manager: Dec 19, 2019
I have been asked to contribute to the ALPS Blog. I am not a blogger. As I tell people who will listen (or read), my first experience with a...
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Dec 18, 2019
I’ve heard all kinds of crazy comments from lawyers over the years. For example, during a CLE event with a state bar’s ethics counsel sitting next...
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Jeffrey H. Bunn: Dec 17, 2019
This is the second in a series of three blog posts on Law Firms and Data Storytelling. Restating the central premise of this, the prior, and the...
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Karen Thalacker: Nov 26, 2019
I get it — you’re busy. But, you should never be too busy to let your good employees know they are appreciated. Here are 3 things you can do to let...
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Nov 6, 2019
Common reasons lawyers close their practices include a medical disability, wanting to retire, a move out-of-state, or a career change. While the...
