Money Management For Lawyers And Clients

Give your students the essential background all attorneys need for handling financial affairs-whether their own or their clients'. MONEY MANAGEMENT FOR LAWYERS AND CLIENTS: ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS by business authority Robert Hamilton clearly and realistically explains the fundamentals of financial transactions and provides an excellent orientation for law students with limited experience in personal finance. Practical and concise, this inexpensive paperback focuses on basic principles and financial transactions that average individuals commonly face: purchasing residential real estate, automobiles, and life insurance evaluating employer-provided retirement plans handling and investing funds establishing systematic savings plans for person living on fixed incomes planning for retirement borrowing funds at the most favorable rate solutions for those in debt due to misuse of credit strategies For The employee who is unexpectedly laid off or fired Assign or recommend this handy resource For The following courses-real estate transactions or finance, consumer law, and insurance law. it will help your students with their coursework now and serve them throughout their careers.

Too few lawyers know the financial principles and practices that make for personal and professional success. Lawyers are very good at many things necessary for law practice. They know the law and have the skills and identity to put the law to good use for their clients. They sometimes overlook, though, that their personal and professional finances can determine how long and effectively they are able to serve those clients. Finances can determine the success and failure of lawyers and their firms. Personal finances can make and break individual lawyers. When lawyers discern and follow sound financial principles and practices, they gain rewarding and sustaining peace of mind, purpose, stability, and security. Finances can also make and break firms. When the managing members of firms agree on and follow sound professional financial principles and practices, they lay and build a foundation for sustainable practice. This book introduces principles of personal and professional finance for lawyers. For lawyers personally, the subjects include financial statements and budgeting, risk management and insurance planning, and investment and retirement planning. For law firm financial management, the subjects include legal and capital structures, annual financial plans, balance sheets, working capital, operating statements, ratio analyses, and financial targets. Lawyers and law students who read this book should find encouraging confirmation of core commitments that they and others whom they trust have made and followed around finances. The principles and practices this book promotes are not a get-rich-quick scheme. They instead help lawyers prepare, plan, and practice wisely using modern methods made sound with the wisdom of the ages.

This valuable text provides comprehensive and detailed guidance on the law and professional standards and ethics governing the role of lawyers in handling money held for a client, with a particular focus on lawyers' trust account management. It covers all Australian jurisdictions, and includes the Legal Profession Uniform Law now in force in New South Wales and Victoria.As the security of trust money rests significantly on how lawyers account for trust account transactions, the accounting required by law is explained and examples are given to illustrate how accounts are to be kept. The more general legal responsibilities relating to handling of others' money are also discussed, including those arising in contract, tort and under fiduciary and trustees' duties. The author also addresses the statutory powers that underpin civil remedies such as the ordering of accounts and appointment of receivers.The scope and depth of coverage of this work make it essential reading for legal practitioners, students and graduates undertaking practical legal training.Features· Comprehensive coverage Australia-wide of trust account requirements · Identifies the underlying ethical responsibility of practitioners in managing client funds· Ensures appropriate awareness of the consequences of breach· Includes plentiful accounting examples· Clear, accessible explanations Related TitlesEbejer, LexisNexis Questions and Answers: Legal Practice and Ethics, 2nd ed, 2016MacFarlane & Ross, Ethics, Professional Responsibility and Legal Practice, 2017Ross, Ethics in Law: Lawyers' Responsibility and Accountability, 6th ed, 2014

Are you ready to go beyond advising and planning to actively advocating the interests of your elderly clients? You can be, with this two volume handbook from two veteran elder law advocates. In a systematic and practical fashion, the authors address each key practice issue and provide an overview of the basic rules and guiding statutes/regulations, in-depth analysis of elder law practice together with guiding case law, and step-by-step explanation of the advocacy process, revealing how law operates in the real world and where things can go wrong. Plus you'll get their practice-tested minisystem for effective advocacy. After an introductory section explores basic principles, Representing the Elderly Client: Law and Practice addresses the six areas you'll encounter most often: Medicaid Special Needs Trusts Medicare and Managed Care Elder Abuse Nursing Home and LTC Facilities Intra-family and Postmortem Advocacy for Elderly Clients and Heirs. Practice forms, flowcharts, and tables put all essential information at your fingertips. The forms contained in the Author's Advocacy Mini-systems will save you hours of preparation time. Start finding effective solutions to your elderly clients' problems with Representing the Elderly Client: Law and Practice. Along with your Representing the Elderly Client two-volume print set, you'll receive a FREE CD-ROM containing word processing documents used in handling some of elder law's most complex concerns.

Client Management may be the single hardest part of being a lawyer. Talk to any attorney and they will tell you this is true. Law schools do not spend enough time teaching students how to manage clients. The difference between having a happy legal career and a miserable one can come down to how a lawyer deals with their clients. I believe that any lawyer or law student who reads Client Management For Lawyers will find it useful and beneficial. "Alex Benikov has penned a critical work--the importance of client management cannot be understated for the modern legal practitioner."-Criminal defense lawyer John McBee"I am very fortunate to have met Alex Benikov as a professor at Arizona Summit Law School, and to have the chance to read his latest book on client management. Unlike Professor Benikov's law school experience our school did offer a “Client Management course”. However, this course was more based on setting up a law office, and a partnership than the more practical areas that attorneys will overlook until trouble happens. Alex Benikov's newest book “Client Management for Lawyers” is a book I would recommend for anyone in the legal community, this book shares information on a level that anyone would be able to comprehend and follow. The best part of reading “Client Management for Lawyers” is the fact I have personally witnessed Alex Benikov live by these words, and how well he interacts with clients. I highly recommend this book for any attorney who will deal with clients in the practice of law." - Civil and criminal defense lawyer Frank Schreiber "I wholeheartedly recommend this book to law students. Law school does not prepare you for how "challenging" many clients can be. Lawyers need to know how to handle difficult issues involving client management. Mr. Benikov's book will help readers start thinking about how they would deal with such clients." -Civil and criminal lawyer Karen Richman"As a practicing attorney, I have learned that there are few areas more difficult to master than client management. Clients are often intimidated when meeting with an attorney. Mr. Benikov's book lays out very effective methods of interacting with clients. Whether its tips for making clients feel more at ease or methods of taking control of certain situations, there are great approaches in the book. I would recommend the book to all law students who are serious about becoming good attorneys." -Civil lawyer Geoff Malicoat"This book should have been written a long time ago. Law schools do not spend enough time teaching students how to deal with clients. This books shows practical, down to earth approaches that every attorney can use. There is no way to make client management easy but this book will point attorneys in the right direction."-Civil lawyer H.L. Haines

This hands-on, how-to book will provide law firms with budget and financial knowledge they need to make critical financial decisions.

The book provides an overview of the right to counsel and the attorney-client privilege in the following 12 jurisdictions: China, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, UK and USA. The right to counsel is a fundamental right providing the accused access to justice in criminal proceedings. Lawyers can only practice their profession properly if clients have complete trust in their lawyer’s discretion. This trust is safeguarded by the attorney-client privilege, which is an indispensable part of every constitutional state and one of the most important professional duties of a lawyer. It is of particular importance in criminal proceedings regarding the protection of the confidentiality of lawyer-client communications in the different procedural stages, coercive measures as well as the various duties and interests in play. However, the communications protected by attorney-client privilege vary greatly from country to country. With regard to criminal investigations in an increasingly globalised world, where sophisticated tools enable broad digital investigations, there is an urgent need to clarify how this fundamental right is protected at both the national and supranational level. Each chapter explores the regulations, practices and recent developments in each jurisdiction and was written by highly qualified experts in the legal field – from academia and practice alike. It identifies possible solutions and best practices, providing valuable insights for practitioners and law-making bodies alike regarding the actual protection (or lack thereof) of lawyer-client confidentiality in the pretrial and trial stage of criminal proceedings.

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. Discussion questions and case studies are provided at the end of each chapter to reinforce the material. Each chapter includes review checklists and additional resources to help students master the concepts. Students are taught the ethical requirements of the legal business but are also challenged to understand their real-world underpinnings. New to the Second Edition: Updated to reflect changes in the legal profession as clients demand economically viable solutions and technology increasingly allows lawyers to provide them Coverage of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in Chapter 5. Coverage of sustainability in facility management in Chapter 6 More focus on developing demonstrable skills useful in law office management, in the legal field, and beyond Greater emphasis on client relationship management and legal project management by all members of the legal team Career preparation tips in every chapter Chapter outcomes added to the beginning of every chapter Coverage of texts and instant messaging in Chapter 7 New section on Marketing the Law Firm in Chapter 8 Enhanced discussion of social media and its usefulness in law firm marketing