Rainmakers score high on test: Q. Which do you like most? a. clients, b. money, c. all of the above

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Toronto's Counseling Consulting Services devised a test to help North American law firms find job candidates with client development skills. This test was originally developed to profile people such as sales workers and entrepreneurs but Counselect employees adapted it for lawyers. The test is graded by computer and consultants help evaluate the results. The test asks similar questions more than once in an attempt to weed out untrue responses. The test was given to five attorney-volunteers and results are discussed.

Analysis, Product information, Attorneys, Client development, Counselect Consulting Services, Inc.

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Judge: poverty lawyers also need a safety net; a New York judge joins effort to rejigger fee award formula and increase pay

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State judges are more commonly authorizing broad challenges to statutory hourly rates paid court-appointed counsel. They are also challenging fees paid counsel in death penalty cases, although because of the publicity these cases tend to receive fees paid are often higher than those in noncapital cases. The economic situation for court-appointed counsel is particularly bad in New York state, although there are also a couple of Southern states where what court-appointed counsel make won't even pay for their overhead.

Economic aspects, Prices and rates, Legal assistance to the poor, Court-appointed counsel, Court appointed counsel

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