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New Legal Malpractice Case

anti-slapp legal malpractice May 04, 2022

For many years I've provided mentoring to many less experienced California lawyers. Unlike when I started practicing in 1980, today very few new lawyers get mentoring to help them learn how to practice law the right way. To address this need, I've created Lawyer Master Mentoring™ to help lawyers throughout the U.S. learn how to practice law and create their dream civil law practices. I offer both a 12-week online video course and one-on-one Lawyer Master Mentoring™ sessions.

Below, I provide you a sample of one of my short (one paragraph) summaries of an important new California civil case that was published last month.

Legal Malpractice

I've been thinking for years that the anti-SLAP...

Life Tip: Start Your Day Right!

morning routine start the day right Apr 28, 2022

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Life Tip: Start Your Day Right!

Today, most people keep their smart phones near their bed at night and the first thing they do each morning is look at their email, texts and social media accounts. Unfortunately, this starts their day responding to the "emergencies" of others, and often their whole day is consumed by responding to others.

The better approach is for you to control how each new day starts in order to set your agenda...

New CA Arbitration Case

appeals arbitration uim arbitrations Apr 21, 2022

Would You Like to Quickly Develop Your Dream Civil Law Practice?

A great way for lawyers to improve their organization and systems and results is to find a case summary subscription service, like my California Case Summaries™, to enable them to easily keep up with the new case law in their practice areas. Doing this will give them great ideas for working up their cases, and for arguments to make in motions and in trial, which will help them get better results and better referrals to grow their law pract...

Law Tip: Take the Long View!

law practice Apr 14, 2022

Would You Like to Quickly Develop Your Dream Civil Law Practice?

Law Tip: Take the Long View!

The practice of law is not a sprint. It's a marathon. Newly admitted lawyers often make the mistake of taking on as much work as possible in order to make money. But, taking on too many cases doesn't work out well! It can lead to high stress, mistakes and burnout, not great results and satisfaction. In this week's blog video, I discuss the benefit of taking the long view in your law practice.

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New CA Supreme Court Evidence case

evidence hearsay exceptions use of earlier deposition testimony Apr 07, 2022

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New CA Probate Case

Uncategorized Mar 31, 2022

Would You Like to Quickly Develop Your Dream Civil Law Practice?

For many years I've provided mentoring to many less experienced California lawyers. Unlike when I started practicing in 1980, today very few new lawyers get mentoring to help them learn how to practice law the right way. To address this need I've created Lawyer Master Mentoring™ to help lawyers throughout the U.S. learn how to practice law and create their dream civil law practices. I offer both a 12-week online video course and one-on-one Lawyer Master Mentoring™ sessions.

Law Tip: Pick the Right Clients!

Uncategorized Mar 24, 2022

Would You Like to Quickly Develop Your Dream Civil Law Practice?

Law Tip: Pick the Right Clients!

One of the most important things a lawyer needs to do to create their dream law practice is to pick the right clients. To do this well, you need to know which clients to reject! In this week's blog video, I teach you about which clients to reject.

Lawyer Master Mentoring™ Services

Lawyers (whether new or experienced) can rapidly create their dream law practices with the help of a master mentor...

New Ca Arbitration Case

Uncategorized Mar 18, 2022

Would You Like to Quickly Develop Your Dream Civil Law Practice?

For many years I've provided mentoring to many less experienced California lawyers. Unlike when I started practicing in 1980, today very few new lawyers get mentoring to help them learn how to practice law the right way. To address this need I've created Lawyer Master Mentoring™ to help lawyers throughout the U.S. learn how to practice law and create their dream civil law practices. I offer both a 12-week online video course and one-on-one Lawyer Master Mentoring™ sessions.

New Medical Malpractice Case

california supreme court medical malpractice micra Mar 04, 2022

The Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act, commonly known as MICRA, has been on the books in California since 1975. One of its provisions limits non-economic damage awards to a maximum of $250,000. You'd think that California courts would have determined all of the possible MICRA issues, but that's not the case. Just last month, the California Supreme Court issued a new decision regarding MICRA that I discuss in the video above.

Lawyer Master Mentoring™ Services

Lawyers (whether new or experienced) can rapidly create their dream law practices with the help of a master mentor who can help them think deeply, focus on what is essential, avoid distractions, develop their skills, avoid mistakes, answer their questions, and continuously improve their organization and systems. I offer an online video course and individual sessions to provide this much needed master mentoring to attorneys. For my lawyer master mentoring services visit my website at https://montymcintyre-law.com, email me at...

New Employment Law Case

Uncategorized Feb 11, 2022

In addition to helping lawyers with my Lawyer Master Mentoring™ services, I help California lawyers easily keep up with the new case law in their practice areas by publishing California Case Summaries™.

Below is a free sample of a new case summary from the newly published issue of my publication California Case Summaries Monthly™, with summaries of the 43 new California civil and family law cases published in January of 2022.

California Supreme Court
Employment

Lawson v. PPG Architectural Finishes, Inc. (2022) _ Cal.5th _ , 2022 WL 244731: The California Supreme Court, answering a question posed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, determined the proper method for presenting and evaluating a claim of whistleblower retaliation under Labor Code section 1102.5. Once an employee-whistleblower establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that retaliation was a contributing factor in the employee’s termination, demotion, or other adverse action, the employer then bears the burden of ...

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