Avoiding a Malpractice Claim: The 2008 Most Popular practicePRO/LAWPRO Downloads

practicePRO, LAWPRO’s risk management and claims prevention initiative, provides lawyers with tools and resources to help them succeed in the practice of law and avoid a malpractice claim (see this article for information on the most common legal malpractice claims).

As we have completed another year we have updated our most popular downloads list. What are other lawyers looking at? The top 5 downloads were as follows:

1 Peg Duncan’s Canadian focused E-Discovery Reading List
2 Rollie Thompson’s article on the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines
3 A LAWPRO Magazine article on The Dangers of Metadata
4 A sample law firm budget spreadsheet in PDF format (XLS format is here)
5 Directions for Enabling Security Features on Wireless Access Point or router

Other top downloads included:

• General retainer letter precedent in PDF format; ( this and several other retainer precedents in DOC and WP format are here)
• Law firm business plan outline in PDF format; (DOC format is here) (from the also popular Managing The Finances Of Your Practice booklet)
• Carole Curtis paper on dealing with difficult clients
• Lawpro magazine articleon new fraud scams
• Law firm employee departure checklist
• Sample associate agreement in PDF format; (DOC format is here)
• Managing the Lawyer/Client Relationship Booklet
• Dr Larry Richard article on lawyer personalities
• Independent legal advice checklist

You can see the full list of the 2008 most popular practicePRO/LAWPRO downloads
here. Many malpractice claims are easily preventable – use these tools and resources to reduce the likelihood you will face a claim.