Ten Ways E-mail Can Sabotage Your Deal, published in California Business Law Practitioner (Winter 2004).

Everyone uses e-mail in business these days, it seems. What makes e-mail so convenient, however, also makes it deadly. Here are ten lessons you don’t want to learn the hard way. Each has the potential to reduce the value of your client’s transaction, to destroy your own or your client’s credibility and trustworthiness, and to create serious risks to you and your client if the transaction is ever litigated.

Each of these traps illustrates at least one principle applicable to negotiations in general, whether conducted online or off. And each demonstrates the new challenges that e-mail has created in controlling the two most important factors in any transaction—the information held by each side and the people negotiating the deal…

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Ten Ways Transactional Lawyers Make Litigators Rich, forthcoming in California Business Law Practitioner.

This article discusses actual drafting mistakes seen by Ms. Conroy in her years as a trial lawyer, and more recently in her transactional practice.

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Ten Things They Never Told You in Law School About How to Make A Law Practice Successful, published in Case N’ Point, a publication of Continuing Education of the Bar (California) in Fall 2004.

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Ten Best Practices that will Improve Any Negotiation, forthcoming in Case N’ Point, a publication of Continuing Education of the Bar (California).

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