I was reading Ross Kodner’s blog and he described a CLE presentation he had seen where David Ferrell, an attorney, had shown a sample PDF demand letter that had video included in it. Here’s Ross’s accolade:
In a demand letter related to personal injuries suffered by a Chinese melamine-laced formula poison infant, the video that popped up [...]
Jeff Richardson, like me a New Orleanian, has a blog that is invaluable for lawyers who are iPhone users.
Jeff’s blog is iPhone J.D. — Lawyers Using iPhones, and he includes — with lots of screen shots – detailed postings of new apps and other useful info for attorneys. Some of his postings include info about Time tracking — online, Time [...]
The New York Times recently had an article on techniques people use to show they were busy so they wouldn’t get fired: “Working Hard To Look Busy.” A lawyer in the New York office of an international firm had a creative approach. Perhaps putting aside other issues, he wanted to have the lights in his office on in the [...]
We’ve all heard about setting fixed fees for certain kinds of litigation. But this is the first time that I’ve seen a site in which an appellate firm lists a schedule of its fees for certain kinds of work.
For instance, the firm, The Bartlett Law Firm, APLC, lists its fee for writing a principal brief [...]
London’s Daily Mail just reported about it in a headline: “Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact - and it’s the plague of our 24/7 age.”
The article continues:
“Millions apparently suffer from ‘no mobile phobia’ which has been given the name nomophobia.
“They have become so dependent on their mobile that discovering it [...]
This is an out-of-the-box suggestion for a new blog, one that I think will interest many readers, and it’is free for the taking.
By way of background, one way of coming up with solutions in your practice is to have many ways to jog your thought processes.
Assume you have a case that involves a statute (state [...]
Do you remember that Sherlock Holmes solved a crime because of a dog that didn’t bark?
Well, in one case reported by CaseMap, an investigator entered all of a husband’s checks into CaseMap’s case preparatiion program. Here’s how, in that out-of-the-box way, the payments that didn’t show up led to the investigator’is discovery of the husband’is [...]
You’ive probably learned about all the metadata that can be found in word processing files. The metadata may show when a document was created, what editing changes were made, and all sorts of other potentially valuable information.
I recently learned that there is also some extremely valuable information hidden away in the digital version of digital [...]
Thes Monday June 18 issue of the Wall Street Journal has a tremendously informative section regarding computers and other digital information.
Particularly pertinent for attorneys are articles entitled:
“Business Solutions: Making Sense of Social Software”
“Social Studies: Companies of all kinds are figuring out which tools work and how to use them” — The article includes information on [...]
Continuing readers of legal blogs such as this one probably know how to create cross-references in their briefs and memos. With that knowledge, they don’t have to manually update their cross-references when they add or delete pages in their briefs and memos, thus changing the cross-referenced pages. Therefore, for most of you, the following is [...]