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The Karl Truman Law Office has approximately half the employees it once had. But it has the same number of people working in the office. Confusing? Not really. Truman, a personal-injury attorney who practices in both Kentucky and Indiana, wanted ...

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The coaches (see story, “The merits of outsourcing“) offer several suggestions for law firms or new attorneys struggling with payroll issues: 1. If you’re a solo practitioner or have a small firm, farm payroll functions to a company that specializes in them. ...

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When it comes to payroll and benefits, law-firm coaches Edward Poll and John Olmstead use the same words repeatedly: Outsource, simplify and “do what lawyers do best, practice law.” It’s almost a mantra for Poll, a California attorney and MBA, ...

correction at bottom Statistics show that lawyers who take cases outside their specialties traditionally run a greater risk of being sued for malpractice. That doesn’t bode well for 2009, as industry observers say poor economic conditions are likely to increase ...

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Workers are now required to give notice to an employer of an occupational disease or repetitive trauma, but only once the injury has been diagnosed as work-related, the Court of Appeals has held in a  first interpretation of the new ...

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John D. Anderson met Rex Burlison three decades ago, when the young lawyers were on opposing sides of a tenant-landlord dispute. He doesn’t remember much about the specifics of the case, but he’s been a fan of his opponent ever ...

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It’s not often that a transaction in the Springfield market pushes a local company into the Fortune 500. But that’s what happened in 2008, when Lathrop & Gage attorney Randell D. Wallace helped advise McQueary Bros. Drug Co. in its ...

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John Ammann, director of the Saint Louis University Legal Clinics, didn’t have to go far to find inspiration to serve others. His father, Joseph, a high-school teacher who’s now deceased, gathered the family to deliver food for needy families each ...

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Sponsoring events may not bring new clients to their waiting rooms, but attorneys agree that the publicity can only help a firm’s name recognition or reputation. And benefits accrue, whether it’s a 350-lawyer firm hosting a series of entrepreneurship conferences ...

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The Internet, television spots and phone-book advertising are relatively new tools for marketing law firms, but attorneys say that old standby – referrals – remains their best friend. “Our two big sources of business are former clients and attorney referrals,” ...

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Kelly Caine, the father of a girl who died in a December 2006 house fire in Bates County, declined Tuesday to agree to a settlement proposed before a hearing at the Jackson County Court Annex in Independence. Caine drove all ...

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