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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: May 6, 2020
On this episode of ALPS In Brief, at the beginning of Lawyer Wellbeing Week and Mental Health Awareness month, Mark sits down with Liesel Brink, head of HR at ALPS to ask her a loaded question: Why would an employer want to invest time or money in...
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Apr 29, 2020
There are all kinds of finish lines in life. Some of those will be positive, and others won’t. So go ahead and feel what you feel, but remember the...
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Apr 16, 2020
Do you feel like you’re living on another planet right now? There’s a reason. Humans are social animals and social distancing and isolation is not...
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Mar 25, 2020
During a recession, and for the three years following, there has historically been a huge spike in paid claims, which is a number that typically...
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Mar 23, 2020
While missed deadlines are always a risk management concern, the significant number of uncertainties brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic only...
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Mar 18, 2020
Occasionally a lawyer will reach out to me wanting clarification on what should be covered in a letter notifying active clients, whose matters the...
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Mar 4, 2020
I’ll admit that advertising missteps rarely garner much attention from those who enforce the Rules of Professional Conduct. This shouldn’t be much...
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Feb 27, 2020
ALPS Risk Manager Mark Bassingthwaighte shares two real-world stories of attorneys struggling with behaviors that often lead to malpractice claims....
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Feb 14, 2020
ALPS Risk Manager Mark Bassingthwaighte sits down with ALPS CEO David Bell to discuss David’s past, ALPS future, why every company should have a...
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Feb 5, 2020
The ABA’s issuance of Formal Ethics Opinion 482 in September of 2018 finally made it quite clear. Lawyers have an ethical duty to develop a disaster...
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Jan 23, 2020
In this episode of ALPS In Brief, ALPS Risk Manager Mark Bassingthwaighte shares an insightful story of a dream cruise, a freak accident, and an...
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Jan 15, 2020
Trust, which is built upon a lawyer’s ethical duty to keep all information relating to the representation of a client confidential, is the hallmark...
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Mark Bassingthwaighte, Risk Manager: Jan 9, 2020
Prior Acts Coverage With the short history lesson of Part 1 behind us, we can now start to dig into the basics of malpractice insurance. In order to...
