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- Wisconsin Lawyer August 2009: Legal Writing: Be Wise: Revise: Wise writers build extra time into their writing schedules to allow for several attempts at revision, polishing their prose to ensure organized, logical, concise writing. Here are some guidelines for creating your own effective style through revising.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer May 2009: John W. Daniels Jr.: Developing a Firm Culture that Puts People First: John W. Daniels Jr., named one of the 50 most influential minority lawyers in America by the National Law Journal, believes when you value and empower people – “make them feel comfortable in their own skins” – you get their best efforts and the best results, from serving their communities to delivering excellent client service to building collegiality and encouraging a team approach to solving problems.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer March 2009: Technology: Social Media – Building a Rep Online : The social media networking phenomenon is rapidly taking hold in the business world. What started as a trend among teenagers is now competitive with other online marketing efforts of businesses, including law firms and lawyers. As the social media explosion continues to shake out, three platforms have risen to the top: LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer October 2008: Inside the Bar: They Already Know: If you need help handling life stresses, don’t try hiding your problems from your friends or colleagues. They probably already know. Instead, call the trained volunteers at WisLAP. They’re ready 24/7 now to help judges as well as lawyers, law students, and their families.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer September 2008: Law Blogs: The Great Equalizer: A “new” tool advances an "old" marketing method. More lawyers now are using law blogs to enhance their reputations, showcase their expertise, and bring in business the old-fashioned way – by fostering discussion within a network of potential clients.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer September 2008: On your mark, get set, Blog!: Blogs are a hot topic these days: Campaigns have them, prospective clients read them, and professors teach using them so why don't more lawyers have them? The fact is, many lawyers already have blogs and are reaping the rewards of doing so. A blog is an online, reverse chronological record of thoughts.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer July 2005: Inside the Bar: Accept five cases as assigned by the State Public Defender and not only will you be assisting people accused of a crime and helping to make our justice system more accessible, but you also will earn free CLE from the State Bar.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer May 2005: Profile: Throughout his 13-year judicial career, Louis Butler has believed that being a judge involves much more than judging. Now that he's the Wisconsin Supreme Court's newest justice, he still thinks so.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer November 2004: Class Action: Dozens of law practitioners return each spring to the U.W. Law School to help teach the Lawyering Skills Course. Read what motivates these lawyers to share their knowledge and experience with law students.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer November 2004: Class Action: Dozens of law practitioners return each spring to the U.W. Law School to help teach the Lawyering Skills Course. Read what motivates these lawyers to share their knowledge and experience with law students.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer March 2004: Career: Here are 20 ways to develop attorneys' leadership competencies, which will increase attorneys' job satisfaction, and improve business outcomes.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer April 2003: Capitol Training: Wisconsin Lawyers in Congress: Legal training aids Wisconsin's congressional delegates in their work on various committees and across all issues ... from analyzing problems from multiple perspectives to evaluating the effect of laws in the real world. Read what Wisconsin's delegates think lawyers should watch for in the current session.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer February 2003: Writing the Persuasive Brief: The brief is the appellate lawyer's most important tool, because it is the one time when the attention of each deciding judge is independently focused on the lawyer's position in the case. A former appellate judge explains why it is critical that brief writers respect the judges' limited time, and provides tips on how to get - and keep - their attention and interest in your position.
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- Consolidating Law School Debt: Considering whether to consolidate your law school debt? This economics primer for law students and lawyers gives some key facts about federal consolidation loans and information sources you'll need to make that decision.
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- Consolidating Law School Debt - Figures: Considering whether to consolidate your law school debt? This economics primer for law students and lawyers gives some key facts about federal consolidation loans and information sources you'll need to make that decision.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer April 2002: Career: Balancing Work and Life: The shrinking economy doesn't attenuate our need for work/life balance. Replace a focus on insecurity with a plan to make the business case for balance to your firm or organization. Here's a strategy for demonstrating the equity and profitability of balanced hours.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer August 2001: Annual Report 2001: Fiscal year 2001 (FY01) was defined largely by the efforts of President Gary Bakke and members statewide to discuss and debate the future of the profession. "Seize the Future" is the title of a series of events that focused on the sweeping changes affecting the delivery of legal services to the public.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer August 2001: Leading and Managing Change: To be successful in the future, lawyers must be positioned to quickly adapt their practices to our fast-changing society. Strong leadership, a compelling reason for change, a clear vision of how to achieve change, and team involvement are all factors that lead to successfully implementing change.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer July 2001: Preparing for Practice: As law practice pressures and demands grow, expectations mount as to what law schools must do to prepare tomorrow's lawyers. Seasoned practitioners, new lawyers, and law school deans and educators discuss what law schools currently are doing and what changes might be necessary. One conclusion stands out: Law schools alone can't solve the dilemmas surrounding lawyer preparedness.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer June 2001: Back to Law School: In this article, the first in a two-part series on Wisconsin's law schools, find out who is going to law school, what students are learning, and where they go upon graduation. The second article will explore what law schools must do to prepare tomorrow's lawyers.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer November 2000: Inside the Bar: If you were one of the 19,640 Wisconsin lawyers not logged onto the State Bar's first Web-enhanced CLE program on Oct. 16, you missed history in the making. The two-hour program, "Wisconsin Resources on the Internet," drew 60 registrants; 13 of whom were nonresident lawyers - State Bar members who live and work outside Wisconsin, including Canada.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer October 2000: Seize the Future: Lawyers need to tap into creativity and innovation now to shape their future – or surely the future will seize lawyers. That was the urgent message impressed upon attendees at a national "Seize the Future" conference. Grappling with change and questioning old assumptions were key themes of the conference. Attendees were challenged to innovate to survive and thrive, look through clients' eyes, befriend technology, and revamp legal education, among others.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer June 2000: Legal Writing: Some rules bear repeating: fewer and less, affect and effect, correspond to and correspond with, different from and different than, and oral and verbal are just a few.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer April 1999: In Plain English: Different verb tenses can be coordinated in one passage to express actions that happen at different times, that happen because of each other, or that happen only in the context of another action.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer April 1999: President's Perspective: I don't have to tell you that the practice of law is full of stress, anxiety, and worry. This is true whether you're a transactional lawyer or a litigator, a prosecutor or a probate lawyer, whether you practice alone or in a large firm.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer February 1999: Angus on Jury Selection: Many jurors are so bored by voir dire that they are sick of the case before it starts. This is one reason why we are losing lawyer-conducted voir dire in several states and in most federal courts. But there are some things lawyers can do about it. Here are 12.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer December 1998: Risk Management: Resolve to make 1999 the best year ever for your law practice. Once a week, sample a tip from the following list of resolutions collected from the staff of Wisconsin Lawyers Mutual Insurance Co.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer October 1998: What Will the Folks Say?: Attorneys who make a career change are likely to encounter resistance from family members and friends, warns Deborah Arron, author of What Can You Do with a Law Degree?, who led a July State Bar CLE seminar on job advancement.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer May 1998: WisLAP Combats Career Killers: The Wisconsin Lawyers' Assistance Program's trained volunteers help their colleagues statewide deal with the stresses of lawyering, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, gambling addiction, job loss, procrastination, fatigue anything that can potentially destroy a lawyer's career and personal life while maintaining strict confidentiality.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer April 1998: In Plain English: The following open letter is written to Professor Emeritus John Conway, who taught many of you civil procedure at the U.W. Law School, and who is now retired and frolicking in the sun in Laguna Hills, Calif.
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- Wisconsin Lawyer March 1998: Mentoring: Reaching Out, Giving Back: When Susan Rosenberg (right) was a first-year law student in 1981, she shadowed Justice Shirley Abrahamson for a day. At the end of the day, Rosenberg asked Abrahamson, "'How can you afford to spend an entire day with me?'" She looked at me and said, 'Because I'm investing in the future. Someday you'll do this for someone else.'"
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