Tips for lawyer employers re job interviews
The pandemic and lockdown regulations disrupted all law firms. In particular, many law firms had to make changes to operations, including scaling down staff and/or office space.
5 Tips to hire a lawyer
If you are looking for someone to fix your plumbing, will you hire a cook to do it? Probably not! Similarly, how will you know if you are hiring the right lawyer for your specific legal problem or issue?
3 Tips to win Lawyer Stress
Any workplace creates stress. Experts say there are generally mainly 4 stress factors at any work, namely inter-personal relationships, organising, multi-tasking and physical discomfort.
POPIA compliance for South African legal practices
The Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) came into full effect on 1 July 2021. Although lawyers may have been very busy assisting clients to become compliant by the deadline of 30 June 2021, every legal practice also need to comply with POPIA. If you are a lawyer, is your legal practice POPIA compliant?
How to know when to give up your own legal practice?
When I first started my own attorney legal practice in 2004, a law firm owner friend asked me if I was ready to fight.
10 Opportunities for lawyers to increase income
Albert Eistein said: “In the midst of every crisis lies great opportunity”. South Africa is facing a number of crises at this time, including the pandemic, increased unemployment, slow growing economy, GBV, state fraud and corruption.
What are client’s rights to cost estimates when instructing legal practitioners?
The Legal Practice Act 28 of 2014 (LPA) came into force on 1 November 2018. The LPA governs legal practitioners (attorneys and advocates) and prescribes how legal practitioners must give clients upfront cost indications and confirm legal instructions before proceeding with billable legal services.
What are the different forms of legal practices?
Attorneys, Referral Advocates and Trust Account Advocates, who are admitted as such in the High Court of South Africa, and enrolled by the Practice Legal Council, in terms of the Legal Practice act 28 of 2014 (“LPA”), are collectively referred to as “legal practitioners”. The LPA came into force on 1 November 2018.
What are the requirements to become an attorney or advocate in South Africa?
LLB students often wonder about the training and steps it requires to become an admitted attorney or advocate in South Africa. We hope this blog will help provide a checklist of statutory requirements.
How did women lawyer rights develop in South Africa?
Women were first afforded to be admitted as attorneys and advocates in South Africa after promulgation of The Woman Legal Practitioners Act 7 of 1923. The first white woman was admitted as an attorney in 1923, while the first coloured woman was admitted as an advocate in 1962. The first black woman attorney was admitted in 1967.