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... Diane Hamlin, Phyllis Weiss Haserot, Linda Hazelton, Nikki A. Rovito, Sally J. Schmidt, Bob Weiss, and Milton W. Zwicker for winning the Annual Edge Award. ... A Personal View of Legal Marketing's Long, Strange Journey" and Sally Schmidt won a second time for her column, "The New Generation of Lawyers: Planting the Marketing Seed ... do-shouldn't that accomplish the goal without our sacrificing billable hours? Mark Beese responds: Don't confuse marketing with business development. Outside of the legal ...

The recent issue of Law Practice Management Magazine (available online) has some great articles, including 45 Tips for Competitive Intelligence by Ann Lee Gibson, Keeping Up with Marketing -Speak, by Sally Schmidt and a Roundtable on Competitive Intelligence Tools, by a variety of panelists including David Bowerman, Cynthia Cheng Correia, Ann Lee Gibson, Mark Greene, Sabrina Pacifici, Meredith Williams and me.

... facto ban," said Stephen Johnson, CEO of Alpharetta-based consultant T. Stephen Johnson & Associates Inc. "I've never seen a time this difficult to get a charter." The FDIC's regional director in Atlanta, Mark Schmidt, denies that there is a formal or informal ban, then proceeds to all but make the opposite case. Schmidt did acknowledge deposit insurance approval is harder to get, and the FDIC is becoming more discriminating in who it approves nationwide, ...

... 't easily upgrade the discussion board software, and dealing with the database was a clumsier affair than it needed to be. So far the transition has been pretty smooth, although I am noticing a few small glitches (like quotation marks being rendered in some places as question marks). I'll try to sort out all of those nits today or tomorrow. In the mean time, comments are back on, and everything should be working reasonably smoothly. More on the discussion board shortly. Thanks for your patience! ...

... a whopping 46% of the vote, the winner of a DVD set of Seasons 1-3 of The Office and a $100 Starbucks gift card is . . . Nick Schmidt. Here's Nick's winning entry: An applicant walked into the office at 4:45 p.m. and announced, "I'm here for my ... in hearing your funny/dumb workplace stories. If you have a story you'd like to share with the rest of the world, please submit it by clicking on the button on the upper left-hand side of the Blawg. Thanks again for your participation! Mark Share This

Tom, a 1L at the University of Wisconsin, made this inquiry: I am envisioning some set of abbreviations, marks, symbols, etc., that are traditionally used to markup a case or other legal material. I have been sort of developing my own system to label facts, ... about the arguments on each side of the case, and started adjusting my book briefs accordingly. But a true system for marking up cases would be even better. Comments View comments and add your own to this post (no registration required) in ...

Orrick attorneys Clifford Michel, Mark Howitson, and Amira Day discuss the issues behind the National Federation of the Blind v. Target case, in which Target is being sued for not making its website accessible for those with disabilities. They also provide a broad overview of the context of the case and why it matters for companies with an online presence.

... -peck typist, your results may be different. However, there's a problem with the keyboard's software. The F3 and F4 keys don't function properly. There's a lengthy thread about the issue in the Apple Support Discussion, but even though the thread is marked as "answered" the problem still persists. Apple messed this one up. It's not a show-stopper, of course, but it is an annoyance that doesn't suit Apple's usually high software QA standards. I find this keyboard a comfortable alternative to my ...

Mark Fisher wrote a thorough evaluation of Ettore Software's TypeIt4Me app in July. Now version 4.0 is out, and includes a couple of nifty new features. TypeIt4Me now uses the MacOS X native spell-checker. But I'm more excited about Autocue, which lets you set up boilerplate documents in a variety of applications. I saw a beta demo of this capability at MacWorld in January, and it's pretty slick. TypeIt4Me is an excellent way to save time with repetitive typing tasks. If you're working on a ...

Apple Stores are the best place to go for support, with phone support not getting such high marks, but in general Apple is handily beating the competition in computer suppport: Apple's tech support team helped their customers solve problems with their computers more than 80% of the time. Industry-wide, help-desk teams from all companies solved their customers' problems around 60% of the time. Get the full scoop at Network World. Comments View comments and add your own to this post (no ...