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A suggested blog: A blog that reports cases that hold laws or rules unconstitutional or invalid for some other reason

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 [...]

An out-of-the-box way to find someone’s hidden bank accounts

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 [...]

Metadata in photos: There’is a lot of hidden information in digital photos

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 [...]

Today’s Wall Street Journal - June 18 - has a great 12-page section on “All Things 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 [...]

How to automatically update “See page ____” cross-references in your briefs and memos

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 [...]

Finding evacuee doctors


Suggestions for documenting Katrina losses


Katrina - How to find lawyers who had to leave their offices


Katrina-related legal info - A Katrina manual for attorneys and other information


Katrina - Entergy gives stats of which zip codes have or will have power