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16 May 2013, 4:01 am
Rule makers around the world on Thursday issued a new proposal on accounting for leases that would require many companies to report vastly larger amounts of assets and liabilities than they do now. [read post]
16 May 2013, 4:00 am
A colleagues writes of what seems like the perfect storm of open access hitting the students with whom she works…
My students and I publish in the journal Evolution: Education and Outreach published by Springer. Great outlet for our work. But, they just went open access (good).The cost to publish for an author now is $1,600 (bad). For grad students, this is prohibitive. I told my dean and she said there is no to support grad student publications. That wasn't surprising. Do the math: 60… [read post]
16 May 2013, 4:00 am
Ed advises: keep track of your work, bill timely, and collect efficiently.
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16 May 2013, 3:14 am
“Representatives of the Law Society and the Bar Council have joined forces with wider practitioner bodies to oppose the Ministry of Justice Consultation on proposed savage cuts to the funding of the Criminal Legal Aid Budget, the introduction of Price Competitive Tendering and other changes to the criminal justice system.”
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The Bar Council, 14th May 2013
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk [read post]
16 May 2013, 3:00 am
Question: Ours is a three-lawyer litigation firm with high-profile experience in a narrow issue. Obviously we don’t have the luxury of an in-house marketing department like the big law firms. But we certainly have the capability to best them in the courtroom. We’re wondering if our small law firm has to invest in a fancy “brand” to compete in the marketplace.
Valerie Nelan: Many sophisticated legal services buyers will tell you they “hire the lawyer, not the… [read post]
16 May 2013, 2:31 am
As the economic times turn around, we are still seeing the results of the mortgage bubble. in Ferreira v Citiwide Real Estate & Mgt. Co. 2013 NY Slip Op 50745(U) Decided on May 8, 2013
Supreme Court, Queens County Kitzes, J. we see a typical issue. What happens when the system spins, and the owner is put on the street? Litigation follows.
Of particular interest is what happens when an attorney negligently or carelessly… [read post]
16 May 2013, 2:11 am
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16 May 2013 - The former Justice Minister in Xanana Gusmao's IV Constitutional Government who was convicted on charges relating to corruption in...
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16 May 2013, 1:16 am
“Too many expert witnesses are being paid to give evidence of little value in family courts, according to the Ministry of Justice which is proposing a fresh round of cuts to legal aid.”
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The Guardian, 16th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk [read post]
16 May 2013, 1:00 am
“It has been dubbed the stampede for ‘the purple lifeboat’ – applications to become judges have more than doubled over the past four years as senior lawyers seek professional sanctuary on the bench.”
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The Guardian, 16th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk [read post]
15 May 2013, 9:34 pm
Ironically, May is Hepatitis Awareness Month and May 19 is Hepatitis Testing Day.
That is coming a bit late for some patrons at the High Hampton Inn restaurant in Cashiers, North Carolina. Public health officials are investigating a report of an isolated case of Hepatitis A in an employee at the High Hampton Inn restaurant in Cashiers, North Carolina.
As a precautionary measure, the Jackson County Department of Public Health is asking any people who ate at the High Hampton Inn restaurant from… [read post]
15 May 2013, 6:08 pm
When may a lawyer copy or "Reply All" to an opposing party, and when is it prohibited? I wrote an article in The Business Lawyer entitled "Ethical Email for In-House Counsel: What the Ethics Committee of the North Carolina State Bar Thinks of Your Use of the "CC" Field and "Reply All" Button" that was published today analyzing the North Carolina State Bar's position on these issues. The audience was in-house counsel, but most of it applies to all lawyers. Here is an excerpt:… [read post]
15 May 2013, 4:56 pm
Police are investigating whether a Utah man was texting while driving when his car ran into three girls walking across a Midvale crosswalk.
Photo: Chris Dlugosz
Cell Phone Use While Driving Can be Dangerous
A new Utah law concerning teen cell phone use while driving went into effect this past Tuesday, but that particular law wouldn’t play a role in this case, since the driver is 28 years old. However, there is a Utah law that makes texting while driving illegal in this state.
A person may not… [read post]
15 May 2013, 4:05 pm
, U.S. Congressman. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Representative George Miller, the ranking member of the House Education Committee reintroduced the Keep All Children Safe Act in the Congress on Thursday of last week. The bill had passed the House of Representatives last year with bipartisan support, but it died in the Senate.
The law would regulate the abuses and misuses of the seclusion and restraint techniques on schoolchildren.… [read post]
15 May 2013, 1:57 pm
Lobbyists for the nation’s biggest banks have persuaded federal regulators to soften a proposed Dodd-Frank rule, a move that is expected to protect Wall Street’s control over the $700 trillion derivatives market. [read post]
15 May 2013, 1:27 pm
The husband-and-wife team that ran a Chinese waste-treatment company agreed on Wednesday to pay $3.75 million to settle accusations that they defrauded American investors. [read post]
15 May 2013, 1:13 pm
The calls keep rolling in to our law firm. I'm proud to say that I'm the lawyer who prospective clients will speak to. And, I can say based on all of my years of in-taking such calls that every body thinks they have an AMAZING case that's worth like a million...no way...5 million...no way....100 million dollars.
Don't get me wrong, multimillion dollar personal injury cases in Ontario do exist, but they are not the norm.
To put it into perspective, your standard Ontario car insurance policy has… [read post]
15 May 2013, 1:02 pm
If marketing is everything we do to get and keep good clients (and it is), then you would assume that building a law practice is a marathon, and you would be right.
It’s all of the little things you do, over time, not big things you do once or twice.
It is your daily habit of sending thank you notes or birthday cards. It is the way you always see clients on time and never make them wait. It is writing a blog or newsletter and consistently delivering valuable information in an interesting way.… [read post]
15 May 2013, 12:51 pm
Last night I participated in a "legal best practices" panel at the new WIN Reactor space (near the Seattle Art Museum Sculpture Park).
I'm just getting to know about the Reactor program. Its head, Chip Hallett, described it as a "launch incubator" for startups in the game industry.
The panel was a mix of lawyers and game company founders/CEOs. As anyone would expect going in, the founders/CEOs were more interesting to hear. (That said, Seattle attorney Scott Warner did an uncommonly good job of… [read post]
15 May 2013, 12:33 pm
The American Lawyer: Most States Saw Lawyer Surplus Grow From 2009 to 2011, by Matt Leichter: [I]n 2011 there were more than two ABA law school graduates and three new lawyers for every job opening in the United States. STATE/BEA REGION No. ABA Law School Graduates No. Bar Admits Ratio... [read post]
15 May 2013, 11:57 am
In the last few years at both the federal and state level there have been deep cuts to providing legal assistance to the poor. This only only makes more pressing and manifest a sad reality: there is and always
will be persistent scarcity in the availability of both criminal and civil legal assistance. Given this persistent scarcity, my new article, Rationing Legal Services just published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Legal Analysis, examines how existing
Legal… [read post]