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Would You Pay $1,000.00 for CLE and training?

What is the most you would pay to attend a one day training seminar? Just registration.

What is the most you would pay to attend a two day training seminar? Just registration.

Whether or not it would lead to business and legal or consulting work in the future is just one of the considerations for me. I am considering attending a two day healthcare advanced mediation and healthcare arbitration training program. The cost just to register is $1000.00. For registration, hotel, car rental (I am not driving my boat to Chicago) and gas (its 5 to 6 hours drive from Cincinnati to Chicago), I would spend between $1800 to $2100.

I have wanted to attend this training for sometime (at least 5 years) however it bothers me to spend this kind of money on CLE and training. The firm's money is my money and I typically don't attend high priced CLE events.

The training would be beneficial to my law and consulting practices and would without doubt generate business and marketing opportunities for me.

What would you do?

I am An Attorney therefore should I become accustomed to lies, deceit, and deception?

I am frustrated because I have several cases where I suspected a nurse had a chemical dependency however the client denied a dependency issue. These are licensure defense cases where I am representing a nurse before the Board of Nursing based on a complaint filed against her/her license.

How do you deal with clients who provide you false, inaccurate, or untruthful assertions and information?

I will ask bluntly, how you effectively and adequately represent, counsel, and advise a liar?

Everyone is human and we all do things we regret and make mistakes.

What pisses me off are clients who lie to me and I am their attorney of record. There are so many others a client can lie to like their significant other, spouse, parents, children, etc., so why lie to your attorney when its my job to represent, counsel, and advise you in a legal matter that impacts your license, live, and your livelihood!!!!!!!

I apologize for this rant. I was reared and I am a Baptist. I am not religious but I believe in God. I was not allowed to even use the word "lie" until I was 18 and even now my grandmother still looks at me funny when I use the word. My grandmother always told us there is nothing worse than a liar and a thief.

Maybe I am being dramatic as my 19 y/o son tells me I am a drama queen but I am upset about a particular case where a client's untruthful assertions have caused significant harm to his case and I would have represented, counseled, and advised him differently IF he gave me the "skinny" earlier.

Does being an attorney or a defense attorney mean that you have to become accustomed to lies, deceit, and deception? 

Practicing Law and Something Else

I love the Complete Lawyer!

There is an article in the latest edition about practicing law and finding your passion in the practice of law. http://indiana.thecompletelawyer.com/volume4/issue5/article.php?ppaid=11127

When I started practicing law 11 years ago, I was told "you have to be a nurse or an attorney, you cannot do both." I don't like being told I can't do something, I guess its the Gen X in me.

I practiced as a RN one weekend a month while I worked in a law firm firm. After I left the firm and started my own law and consulting practices, I continued to practice as a nurse. I was told again "you can't have a law practice and a consulting practice, the division will not work." You are either an attorney or a consultant. Oh, really...

I built my law practice around my passion, which was advocating for nurses and some 7 years later, I have the law practice I dreamed about. It hasn't been easy starting a niche tri-state law practice from scratch but it has been worth every single minute invested. The long hours, the travel, the writing, etc.

I work full-time defending nurses in licensure matters and counseling and advising nurses in professional nursing practice matters. I also consult for a national nursing professional association on legal projects. I enjoy writing and I have multiple opportunities to write and publish now. I enjoy presenting and speaking to nurses on legal topics and I have the opportunity to do this also.

If I have figured out anything in my brief 11 years of law practice and 15 years of nursing practice, its plot your own course and practice. Listen to the advice of others but dare to be different and dare to be you.

Are You a Certified Specialist in a Specialty area of the law?

Are you a certified specialist in a particular area of law?

Does it help with marketing?

Does your state even allow certified specialists?

Do you recommend being a certified specialist?

Ohio Consumer's Practical Guide to Managing a Relationship with a Lawyer

The Ohio Supreme Court is seeking comments on this proposed guide. The comment period ends September 24, 2008.

See

http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/RuleAmendments/Default.aspx

Proposed Changes to the KY Bar Association Attorney Advertising Rules

This is where practicing law in multiple states really becomes fun. I practice law and advertise and market my services to nurses in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.

Ohio and Indiana of course have rules related to advertising but Kentucky has an Attorney Advertising Commission. Does you state have a commission also? What has been your experiences with attorney advertising? Do you think a commission is needed to "prescreen" certain advertisements?

I understand the public protection argument but its gets ridiculous at times when the state becomes invovled in attorney advertising. You cannot regulate good taste with attorney advertising rules and in my opinion the rules are becoming more and more convoluted in Kentucky.  

See

http://www.kybar.org/documents/advertising/AAC_prop_regs_082808.pdf

RN-JD Risk Management Position

Are you tired of practicing as a RN-JD in a law firm? If so this position may be right for you.

I must admit, I reviewed this position description twice.

RN-JDs have lots of employment options: law firm, nursing college, consulting, coding and billing, risk management, in-house counsel, out-house counsel, etc.

Download program_director_of_risk_management_job_spec1.doc

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