... I am reposting my good friend, Ben Steven's, post from The Mac Lawyer on the Pros and cons of Web Based Software for Attorneys. Ben Stevens, or The Mac Lawyer, ... you may know him, is an authority on using Macs in a legal practice and is one of the few lawyers who have used Macs since before the Intel switch. Web-based software is ... , and your data, are at the mercy of your vendor. If the vendor suddenly goes out of business or goes offline for any reason, you could find yourself without access to ...
July 3, 2009 09:20 pm

Faulty Break Lead to Truck Accident

(Illinois Truck Accident Lawyer Blog)
... several others. the driver of the tractor-trailer involved in the truck accident has admitted to knowing that his truck had no functioning break at the time of the accident. He had pled guilty to charges of homicide by motor vehicle. Two other defendants are also involved in the case, the owner of the trucking operation and the owner of the auto service business who had sold inspection stickers without properly inspecting vehicles. For more information on this truck accident, click here.
July 3, 2009 07:10 pm

Series 79 Exam

(Hedge Fund Law Blog)
... securities and managing the allocation and stabilization activities of such offerings, or (B) advising on or facilitating mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, financial restructurings, asset sales, divestitures or other corporate reorganizations or business combination transactions, including but not limited to rendering a fairness, solvency or similar opinion. (2) Notwithstanding the foregoing, an associated person shall not be required to register as a Limited Representative-Investment ...
July 3, 2009 05:42 pm

Trial Lawyers College

(South Carolina Criminal Defense Blog)
... month or two, and for the next month or so there will probably be none, but I'll be back to business as usual after that. I'm excited about the Trial Lawyers College and I have no doubt that it will be well worth the sacrifice of getting there and being away from the office for a short while. Laura, the other defense lawyer in our office, attended the National Criminal Defense College (NCDC) in Macon, Georgia, a few weeks ago, and we also regularly ...
July 3, 2009 02:52 pm

Franchising vs. Licensing, continued

(Franchise Lawyer Blog)
... best model for its expansion. Forget the law, don't even talk to your lawyer unless he is able to not miss the forest for the trees. When that business model is clearly established, then apply the tests to determine whether or not it needs to ... model. This is because the three prong tests that we have discussed before identify three elements that most successful business models will want to include. The three prong test identifies (i) a fee as a condition for entry into the business; (ii) the use ...
July 3, 2009 01:41 pm
... , which prohibits sexual harassment outside the employment context by certain vendors / suppliers in various professional business relationships, such as doctors, lawyers, accountants, and trustees. The lower courts and the Supreme Court agreed that the lewd ... "severe," it will be tough to prove a violation of section 51.9 based on occasional interactions with a covered business' employees. (Normally, one will interact in the workplace more frequently than with a third party.) The Court also held ...
July 3, 2009 01:30 pm

FEAR AND DETERRENCE

(Gamso - For the Defense)
... my mind about that, but I want to say a bit more. I addressed an aspect of this a couple of weeks ago (here), after his lawyers filed their sentencing memorandum suggesting that he should get 12 years. Then I was looking at victimology and the ... thoughtful criminals? And there's this. The repeat offenders sort of understand that prison is part of the process and just the price of doing business. Hey, if half your family is in custody and the other half has been or likely will be, it may not seem ...
July 3, 2009 11:59 am

Taser company to soon unveil new Taser X3

(Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog)
Taser International Inc.'s newest law enforcement stun gun is about to be unveiled, but the company is keeping quiet about the technology specifics. The company has been the subject of numerous product liability and wrongful death lawsuits over the use of its stun guns. To read more about the new stun gun.
July 3, 2009 11:34 am
... . By now, these stories probably sound unhappily familiar to homeowners trying to negotiate a loan modification. As Cerritos loan modification lawyers, we hear stories like these all the time from clients who tried to get a loan modification on their own, only ... loan servicer to treat their loan modification requests with respect. Banks listen to us because we are Anaheim loan modification lawyers -- which means we can and will sue a lender that violates our clients' rights. In fact, we start each ...
July 3, 2009 08:01 am

Health Care (Medical) Advocates

(Oregon Legal Research)
... and links. Health care advocates can, among other things, scrutinize your medical bills for errors the same way legal billing auditors do (though mostly for clients with the money to pay to have their bills scrutinized). The average person isn't as likely to wrack up huge legal bills the way the average person can wrack up huge medical bills, so do some research before you call in the lawyers. Legal Aid Services of Oregon (LASO) also has a brochure on Unpaid Consumer Debt (click on Consumer).
July 3, 2009 06:55 am
... this post is about why no one should be surprised that a defendant would refuse to accept responsibility for its actions. As a lawyer that represents people that have been injured as a result of someone else's negligence or misconduct, I see defendants ... 't do so and remain intellectually honest. The simple fact of the matter is that deny, delay, defend and blame is business as usual for defendants in litigation, especially corporate defendants and insurance companies. Sorry, Bozich. Sadly, that's ...
July 3, 2009 06:00 am
... aspirations of the founders and the people they interact with." The essence of thinking like a lawyer is causal reasoning, and not surprisingly, lawyers and entrepreneurs tend to be ships passing in the night. (For a far more scathing assessment of ... mild concurrence.) The scholar referred to in the block quote is Saras Sarasvathy (pictured, left), who is at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and who established her chops working with Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon (he ...
July 3, 2009 05:37 am
... ? The Safe 80 Task Force began in early 2001 after an especially horrible truck accident killed two passing motorists on the busy interstate. Local residents and officials joined forces to look for ways to improve safety. Intensive enforcement by the state police dramatically ... couldn't have stated it any better. Are you sure you guys and gals aren't personal injury lawyers? Let's hope the legislature follows their advice. In a related story Susan Koomar, the Record Senior Managing Editor lists at ...
July 3, 2009 04:31 am
... ). If that had been a European search engine launched by a plucky new start-up, you can bet that its lawyers would have warned them off such a feature. This effectively means that one of the biggest selling points of Microsoft's ... of bounds for any European contender... Perhaps the best solution would be for individual countries in the EU to make themselves more business friendly. The e-commerce directive already allows individual nations to carve out wider exceptions than those listed. Countries ...
July 3, 2009 02:49 am
... etc. but all too often these folks do not grasp how different it is to be great at business development AND be a full time, working lawyer. This struggle leads me to ponder this question, "What are the right qualities of a law firm business ... Period. Understand that lawyers reap more benefit from creating referral relationships than chasing specific buyers. Understand that lawyers are measured and compensated by what they produce (billable hours), not by their effort to create potential billings ( ...
July 2, 2009 10:19 pm
... not mainly fun, find a new gig. Work at that. Many, if not most, lawyers, I am convinced, simply don't even like what they do for a living. ... and failed plans. Happiness, right? That was the main idea. My problem with all that? What business is it of mine that lots of lawyers are miserable? Answer: If you want to have a half-assed life ... don't repel people from entering and staying in the profession who might make fine lawyers except for the bad example set with your defeat, angst and misery because ...
July 2, 2009 09:59 pm
You're minding your own business, when all of a sudden you are rear ended by another driver. You soon find yourself at the hospital where you learn that your injuries ... but there are still some people who don't realize that most personal injury lawyers will take a case on for a contingency fee. This means that you won't have to pay any ... back on the road to health. Call now and speak with an experienced personal injury lawyer regarding you case and get the damages you deserve when a negligent driver ...
July 2, 2009 07:47 pm
... the late 1970's. After three years with the SEC, I've spent the bulk of my 30 years as a lawyer focusing on the capital markets. Most of those years where in private practices in large law firms, although I spent ... . Many others have been made - and others will follow - as the discussion turns from "whether to regulate" to "how to regulate." The nature of the business of hedge funds is trading, and this necessarily requires interaction with the public marketplace - and the larger the investment ...
July 2, 2009 07:06 pm
... payment charges and ATM fees. So maybe the raising of credit card fees has nothing to do with credit cards, specifically, but with attempts to generate money from any available source. An article that might pain students now studying for the bar: Aspiring Lawyer Finds Debt is Bigger Hurdle than Bar Exam, about the New York Appellate Division's denial of a candidate's application to be admitted to the bar because of the failure to make substantial payments on student loans. The candidate's loans ...
July 2, 2009 05:56 pm
... should qualify as 'fair use' under trademark law, but anything more persistent requires permission. The threshold is confusion: If a viewer might infer an endorsement, a college that hasn't signed off can sue. Cautious studio lawyers err on the side of letting colleges peek at the scripts. Administrators often behave like film-ratings boards: They forbid violent or sexually explicit scripts, which could sully an institution's good name. Some colleges are more persnickety, turning away fictional ...
July 2, 2009 03:08 pm
 
 

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