Olga Patterson Receives Paralegal of the Year Award at AAJ Annual Conference
The winner of the 2022 American Association for Justice (AAJ) Paralegal of the Year Award, sponsored by Advocate Capital, Inc., was Olga Patterson from the law firm of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A.
We created a video capturing the moments from the award ceremony at AAJ's Annual Convention on July 16-19 in Seattle. As part of the awar...
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Webinar Reminder: Effectively Litigating Against Defective Products With Lance Cooper
Join us for our upcoming webinar, ‘Effectively Litigating Against Defective Products’ with Paul Myers, CEO & Chairman of Advocate Capital, Inc., and Lance Cooper, attorney and founding partner of The Cooper Firm.
Learn how to identify a strong product liability case effectively and what steps are needed to take on large corporate opponents successfull...
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Organizing Your Email With Outlook Rules
Authored By: Candace Whitman
As a lawyer, your email inbox most likely fills up quickly, so email management and organization are important. Did you know you can create customs rules in Outlook that can make that management more automatic?
To create a rule, right-click on an email, hover over "rules" and click "create a rule." From there, there are a vari...
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How to Prepare a Client Who is Anxious About Testifying
Being deposed in a case or testifying in a trial can be nerve-wracking for your client. Everyone handles pressure differently. Some of your clients may do just as well or better than they did during practice while others will struggle on the day of when it is time for them to speak. Alan Fanger provided some tips on preparing anxious clients to testify in...
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Meet America's Top Trial Lawyers Kurt Zaner and Marc Harden
Meet two of America's Top Trial Lawyers, Kurt Zaner and Marc Harden of Zaner Harden Law, as they are interviewed by Donna Jones, President and Director of Associate & Client Experience.
The pair discussed how their client's drunk driving case helped change Colorado law and bring the victim's family justice in the video below.
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Public Justice 2022 Trial Lawyer of the Year
Public Justice’s 2022 Trial Lawyer of the Year award went to a group of attorneys who took on a case that exposed police corruption in North Carolina.
As Public Justice notes in their blog, the award was given to Elliot Sol Abrams of Cheshire Parker Schneider, Elizabeth C. Lockwood of Ali & Lockwood LLP, Catherine E. Stetson, E. Desmond Hogan, and W....
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Website Management Tips for Law Firms
Authored By: Candace Whitman
Your law firm's website is one of your ultimate tools to show potential clients who you are and gather leads. Here are some website design and management tips from Adrian Aguilera of LexBlog to help you make the best impression on your website.
Think about what is important to your clients.
When designing or updating your law...
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Celebrating Debbie Ivey's 20 Years of Service at Advocate Capital
Authored By: Mary Berst and Shirley Johnson
Today, we celebrate Debbie Ivey's 20th anniversary as an Advocate Capital associate. Debbie began her career with Advocate on August 1, 2002.
Debbie started as the first bookkeeper handling the loans and payments of loans, and individually processing client bank transactions and accounts payable. During this tim...
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Lawsuit: Inmates in Indiana bought keys from jailers, raped and assaulted female prison inmates
Authored By: Elizabeth KapamasAccording to Michael Ruiz of Fox News, a group of 28 female inmates in an Indiana state prison claim that correction officers sold female inmates' jail keys to male inmates. Women in the attack have reported being raped, sexually assaulted, and physically assaulted, resulting in one woman contracting herpes, another becoming...
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Podcast: Convenience Store Robbery Responsible for Largest Compensatory Verdict in Washington State with Eric Fong
Authored By: Elizabeth KapamasIn this Cases That Made a Difference® podcast episode, Eric Fong, attorney and owner of Fong Law, joins Donna Jones, President and Director of Associate and Client Experiences, to talk about the largest compensatory verdict won in the state of Washington.
When Fong's plaintiff walked into a Parkland, Washington, convenience s...
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