January 2009

US Supreme Court Rules in Family Law Case

It’s not very often that a family law related case makes it to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court just issued it’s opinion in a case involving a dispute between an ex-wife and the her ex-husband’s daughter over the proceeds of a pension plan. The decision, Kennedy v. DuPont, has significant impact on the procedures [...]

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Is Twitter a waste of time? I think not!

So many lawyers have told me that Twitter is a waste of their time. I explain it – they reject it. And all the while, I get one referral request after another for North Carolina lawyers. Tweet after tweet requesting a family law attorney, a real estate attorney, a criminal attorney…and you can be sure [...]

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Pipl.com – The most comprehensive people search on the web

Pipl is a people search engine. You can do lookups by name, email address, username or phone number. It will prove useful for doing a search on an expert, a client, opposing party, opposing counsel, job applicant or witness. It really digs in and finds a bunch of stuff. Do a search for yourself and [...]

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SpeakWrite.com – A “Can’t Live Without It” Service

This is another one of those services that I really love and recommend for your consideration. What do they do? They transcribe dictation. That’s all. They do it fast and they do it cheap. I’ve been using them for years. They accept dictation via phone (which is what I do) or via uploaded/emailed audio files. [...]

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Are you the techie everybody turns to for help? Here’s an idea.

You’ve learned how the the I.T. hardware and software works so now you are sentenced to answer tech questions for EVERYBODY ALL DAY LONG. It’s exhausting, especially when you have to answer the same questions over and over (sometimes for the same person). What to do? Record a screencast next time you answer. Save it. [...]

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Seth + Duct Tape

Two of my favorite influencers on marketing are Seth Godin and John Jantsch. Seth writes pretty much daily at his site. John Jantsch writes and podcasts with great frequency. Seth tends to be somewhat philosophical. John has a strong focus on the day-to-day nitty gritty. These two came together recently in a podcast on John’s [...]

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Frontline Economic Report

I just left the Council meeting of the North Carolina Bar Association Law Practice Management section. Among other things, we discussed the state of the economy and it’s impact on our firms. The Council has representation from the smallest firms (solos) to the largest national and international firms. It’s a fascinating mix. The general sense [...]

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Scroogle.org – A site I can’t live without

When you do a search on Google (especially if you are logged in but also, I think, if you have visited previously and have a cookie installed) you get custom results. So, for instance, if you search on “Chicago Divorce Lawyer” once and then do it again, later, your second set of results are influenced [...]

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