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Well, let’s start with some plain English, shall we? Webster’s Dictionary says that competency is the “possession of sufficient knowledge or skill.” To do what, it doesn’t say. Insanity, on the other ...

In the Vermont House Judiciary section of the legislative website, two bills dealing with competency are listed. H.251 was ...

Lawyers very often feel that their competency as attorneys is sufficient to protect their practice from errors and omissions liability claims. Actually, and unfortunately, the two elements are often ...

The long-offered and frequently invoked justification for the bar exam is that the public must be protected from legal incompetence. That is a legitimate, worthy, and necessary concern. Incompetent ...

In the last month, COVID-19 has forced more than 10 million Americans to file for unemployment. In the coming weeks, law students will join the surge, as employers begin to postpone employment start ...

As a lead-up to our General Counsel of the Year Awards event May 18, NJBIZ is excerpting a chapter from Princeton Legal Search Group’s “The General Counsel’s Guide to Hiring the Very Best Legal Talent ...

An analysis of recent guidance and emerging best practices on counsel’s ethical duty to be technologically proficient, with a focus on counsel’s obligations in the context of e-discovery and ...