Out-of-the-Box Lawyering

A selected list of past postings

A SELECTED LISTING OF PAST POSTINGS (URLs are listed in case you want to print the list for someone else)

About the site
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000002.html

My bio
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000003.html

Experts: How to find out FOR FREE whether an expert has been named in a state or federal appellate opinion during the last five years
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000004.html

Experts: Do you want to find an expert – cheaply? Let a searching expert do the searching for you
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000006.html

Turning lemons into lemonade: How an attorney turned his client's alcohol and drug addiction into an advantage
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000007.html

Trials: What to do when you need to try your case and the case ahead of yours just won't settle
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000008.html

Phronemophobia: Are your judges or your opponents suffering from phronemophobia?
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000009.html

An out-of-the-box settlement: How a concerned U.S. Attorney's office "settled" a potentially embarrassing prostitution case by allowing a boat to plead guilty. Lawyers can often find out-of-the-box ways to settle their cases. Here's what the U.S. Attorney's office did.
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000010.html

Searching for a treatise?: Are you looking for a prior edition of a book, such as a medical treatise? Or are you trying to find some other publication that was published a few years ago and is no longer in print?
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000011.html

Turning lemons into lemonade: How companies like MCI and Enron will receive money from their overstated earnings
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000012.html

Using retired judges: Here are two out-of-the-box ways that retired appellate judges may be helpful to you
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000013.html

Video depositions: Out-of-the-box uses for video depositions
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000014.html

The SODDI defense – You do know the SODDI defense, don't you?
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000015.html

Looking for a product or an exhibit?: Are you looking for a sample of a product in a products liability case – or any other type of case? Or you can't find something else that you've been looking for to help prove your case? How about searching for it on eBay? It's worked incredibly well for other attorneys
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000017.html

An out-of-the-box way to overturn an appellate loss: The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Ninth Circuit affirmance of the convictions of two defendants because not all of the judges were qualified to sit on the appeal http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000018.html

Let your client help you arrive at a solution when you have an "unsolvable" problem in a case
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000020.html

Finding briefs in other cases: Stop reinventing the wheel – Here's how you can obtain briefs that have been filed in various courts and by various organizations – And maybe also find inconsistent briefs your opponent filed in prior cases
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000021.html

An out-of-the-box sanction: An out-of-the-box sanction is affirmed by the U.S. 9th Circuit – The court affirmed a trial court's award of $5,000 to plaintiff for her public embarrassment due to inadmissible trial testimony regarding her alleged past sexual conduct
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000022.html

Improving client relations: Use a second monitor that your clients can view while you are entering data and considering options in their cases
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000023.html

Using a contract provision to help prevent lawsuits — General counsel or the CEOs of both contracting parties must meet before either may file suit
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000024.html

Disciplinary claims: Legal malpractice policies may pay all or part of an attorney's fees for defending against disciplinary claims
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000025.html

Marketing: An out-of-the-box way to market on the Internet
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000026.html

Alta Vista sometimes beats Google: Sometimes Google is not the best search engine to use – AltaVista has two valuable tools that Google lacks
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000027.html

Humor: You think legal writing is bad? Here are the results of a purposefully bad writing contest. "It's a dark and stormy night" is visited and revisited and revisited.
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000028.html

Ethics: Do you have an ethics question? Here's how to get quick and usually free advice
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000029.html

Consumer law: If you have a consumer law case, this site could be a goldmine for you
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000030.html

A creative law conference: "Preventing and Solving Legal Problems Creatively" — That's the interesting title of an out-of-the-box legal conference that was held in March 2004
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000034.html

Daubert rulings: Do you have a Daubert issue or want to check out whether an expert has been discussed in a Daubert context? Here's a great site!
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000035.html

Humor: This may have been the law-related understatement of the year: "They are not expected to treat him kindly"
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000036.html

Unknown uses for Google: Do you need a photograph, drawing, or other image for a case? Try using Google
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000037.html

Get free news updates from Google — automatically: How you can get the latest news on Google. And how you can you can keep track of what news sources are saying about your clients and your opponents (and maybe even about you)
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000038.html

Legal research: How to find state statutes on the Internet
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000039.html

Helping out in a foreign country: Are you a "senior lawyer" who wants to get out of your law box? Do you want to do something different during your retirement in addition to — or even instead of — playing golf full time? Here's how you can go to foreign countries and help local people
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000040.html

Legal research: Did you know that over 1,400 municipal codes are searchable online? FOR FREE?
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000041.html

Medical malpractice: One out-of-the-box way to reduce medical malpractice suits — Reduce the medical malpractice that leads to the suits — First example (in an ongoing series) — Use of bar codes by hospitals for drugs and for blood and blood products
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000042.html

Scirus – A Search Engine for Scientific Information
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000043.html

Jury trials: An out-of-the-box way to test your case with juror types — And without using either a focus group or a mock trial. Would you believe the juror types are placed in M.R.I. equipment!!! M.R.I. testing is already being used by political consultants!
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000046.html

Income tax savings: This is a real out-of-the-box way to save on income taxes: If you were subject to the alternative minimum tax, you might save money by itemizing your deductions even if your standard deduction was higher that your itemized deductions
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000047.html

How a client might recoup a fine: Here's an out-of-the-box solution for bars that have been fined after under-age drinkers used fake IDs: Sue the fakers!!
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000048.html

An unusual type of appeal: An out-of-the-box solution — maybe — if your high-school senior (or a client's high school senior) has been denied admission by their dream college. Appeal. (That's right: Appeal.)
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000049.html

Google's little-known goldmine for finding information: Google's answers.google.com can be invaluable in finding information for your cases and for almost anything else
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000050.html

More little-known Google uses: Out-of-the-box ways to use Google: How to find more than just the normal web site information using Google
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000052.html

How hospitals are increasing safety and reducing costs by preventing malpractice — How to decrease medical malpractice suits by decreasing malpractice — Posting number 3
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000053.html

The out-of-the-box technique that got Nader on the Virginia ballot — Is the rule that's against you valid?
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000054.html

A potential out-of-the-box defense for an aggressive client: My mother's drinking or her smoking made me do it — Just look — My arms (or legs or ears or feet or whatever) are not symmetrical
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000055.html

Here's how to find wi-fi hotspots wherever you go in the country
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000058.html

Raising out-of-the-box equal protection and related arguments in child custody cases — 41 class actions have been filed
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000059.html

RICO didn't apply to crime-family shootings
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000060.html

A solution for when you have a long trial in a small city and can't find adequate hotel and office space
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000061.html

How to win by NOT filing a winning lawsuit — There are times when you shouldn't file suit even if you think you can win it
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000063.html

Preventing injuries and deaths due to the illegible prescriptions that physicians write — Another way to decrease medical malpractice suits by decreasing the malpractice
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000064.html

Chronic back pain can shrink the gray matter in the sufferer’s brain: An alert for victims of traumatically-caused chronic back pain and their attorneys
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000065.html

How to save calories and help someone else out
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000066.html

An alert for attorneys who handle personal injury cases: Caregivers may age faster due to the stress of their caregiving - Is this a potential item of damage for the spouses and perhaps the parents of victims of trauma?
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000067.html

Google Groups (in Beta)
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000068.html

Making more money: Here's an out-of-the-box way to increase your bottom line
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000069.html

Joy lawyers get from being creative
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000070.html

ATTORNEY MARKETING: How to enhance client relationships and perhaps even get new clients
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000071.html

90,000 patients a year die from hospital-acquired infections - - How to reduce the number of medical malpractice cases by reducing the medical malpractice
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000072.html

Louisiana lawyers can now search Westlaw and more FOR FREE at the Louisiana Supreme Court Law Library
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000073.html

Free Westlaw searching at law libraries around the country — This free searching can include federal and states case — and much more!
http://www.outoftheboxlawyering.com/archives/000076.html