NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Despite changes to advertising rules, lawyers have marketed themselves in much the same way for generations. You find an office space, you go out and network, you do good work, and more work comes in. But, as consumers have become more discerning, and as law firm choices continue to proliferate, lawyers continue to stick with the same marketing strategy they always have.
The Empowered Paralegal
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Completing law school is just the start of your journey. You need to make sure that you know what it takes to be a reasonable attorney. It is essential to learn how to be a successful lawyer and become one of the best in your field. The best lawyers in the industry have learned how to master the skills over time. It takes training to learn how to be the best.
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LegalTalkNetwork
OCTOBER 17, 2018
On October 11th 2018, the Oklahoma Access to Justice Summit was held at the Oklahoma Bar Association in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Supported and hosted by civic-minded attorneys across the country, this event was designed to raise awareness and address for the “justice gap” defined by the Legal Services Corporation as the difference between the civil legal needs of low-income Americans and the resources available to meet those needs.
Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 2, 2018
Only three weeks ago, we wrote about an application for experimental authority filed by an AM station operator in Arizona, seeking permission to cease operating its AM station for a one year test to operate solely with its paired FM translator. We suggested that this proposal portended much for the AM band. However, the FCC apparently did not see this proposal as that earthshaking, and while we were at the NAB Radio Show last week, it dismissed the request for experimental authority to conduct t
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OCTOBER 22, 2018
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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Modern law firm consumers are an entirely new breed. They have more law firm options than ever before, and aren’t afraid to use them. They are committed to mobile search. They are more cost-sensitive than any consumer base in modern history. Absent a near-instantaneous response from a potential lawyer hire, they will immediately move on to the next attorney on their list.
The Empowered Paralegal
OCTOBER 22, 2018
A family lawyer is a necessary legal profession. You need to make sure that you hire a good lawyer to handle your family issues. Family issues can be very sensitive, and you need to make sure that you hire a lawyer who understands your needs for privacy. A family lawyer will be responsible for most of your family legal issues, and you need to get the right one.
LegalTalkNetwork
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Jack Newton, the CEO of Clio, opened the 2018 Clio Cloud Conference with a thoughtful keynote and a call to action: experience. He called for lawyers to start thinking about the experience their clients are having, promised to continue improving the lawyer’s experience in using the Clio software, and most relevantly, urged attendees at Clio Cloud to make the experience their own.
Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2018
Earlier this year, there was a settlement window for mutually exclusive applications in the FCC’s application window for new FM translators for Class A and B AM stations. The FCC yesterday released a list of the applications that are now grantable as a result of conflict resolutions filed during that settlement window. These applicants must file their “long-form applications,” setting out the technical details of their proposed operations, during a filing window that will open October 4 and clos
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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Do you reuse the same passwords over and over again? Or, do you find yourself creating ever simpler passwords, so they’re easier to remember? Do you instead use really complicated passwords that you keep on sticky notes around the office? In the short run, th ese are easy solution s to password management; but, in the long term, it’s a security loophole that’s bound to come back to bite you.
NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Law firms depend on their websites to generate clients. For most law firms, if the website is not the primary driver of referrals, it’s confirmation to your potential clients that you’re an invested business owner, and is perhaps the first avenue through which you begin to build trust with consumers. But, if you didn’t update your website this Summer, there’s something you should know.
NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Law practice management consulting is, essentially, business management consulting for law firms. That may sound basic, but law practice management consulting is a highly specific genre, that contemplates the special components related to law firm management that do not attach to running other small business, including the ethics rules that lawyers must adhere to.
Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2018
The FCC this week released its draft order proposing to eliminate the requirement that broadcasters file certain contracts relating to ownership and control with the Commission. Instead, the disclosure of these documents will be made simply by observing the current requirement that stations either (1) make those documents available in the station’s online public file, or (2) make available a list of the required documents in the online public file with the documents themselves provided within 7
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Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2018
As we approach Election Day, the political ads seem to be getting more and more frequent, and often more and more nasty. We provided this overview of what a station should do when it gets an attack ad two years ago, and the ads have not become kinder in the intervening period, so we will publish it again (with a few revisions). With the rise in the number of attack ads in this last week before the election , stations are facing more and more demands from candidates who are being attacked, askin
Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 29, 2018
November is perhaps the month with the lightest schedule of routine FCC regulatory filing obligations – with no requirements for EEO Public File Reports, Quarterly Issues Programs or Children’s Television Reports. Nor are there other routine obligations that come up in the course of any year, though during November of 2019, broadcasters will be preparing for next year’s December 1 Biennial Ownership Report deadline.
Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 24, 2018
The FCC yesterday adopted an Order eliminating the requirement that broadcasters file with the Commission copies of certain contracts, agreements and other documents relating to ownership and control – instead relying on the obligations to either upload the documents to a station’s online public file, or to place a list of the documents in the public file (with information listing the parties involved, and the dates of execution and of expiration).
Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 23, 2018
The FCC yesterday released a Public Notice asking for comments on a “ Catalog of Expenses ” that would be reimbursed to licensees of LPTV and TV translator stations, as well as FM broadcasters, who are impacted by the repacking of the TV spectrum following the TV incentive auction. We wrote here about the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking looking to establish rules for that reimbursement process (note that reply comments in that proceeding are due October 26).
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Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Earlier this month, the FCC announced another of its regular EEO audits , though this time it’s just for cable systems and other MVPDs who, like broadcasters, have EEO obligations. The FCC will audit 5% of all broadcasters and cable companies each year to assess their EEO compliance, so be prepared in case you are next. Broadcasters were last audited in June (radio stations only – see our article here ), so their turn will come again.
Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2018
The FCC yesterday announced a two-week extension of time , through October 31, 2018 , for the registration of C-Band earth stations used by many radio and TV stations to receive programming. As we have written before , the FCC is trying to determine what users are in the C-Band (aka the 3.7-4.2 GHz band) as it is trying to maximize its use and may want to consolidate or otherwise modify protections afforded to existing users.
Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Last week, after passage by both chambers of Congress and signature by the President, the ‘‘ Orrin G. Hatch–Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act’’ became law. The law underwent a few changes on its journey to approval, adding new provisions in the Senate to those which we summarized here upon its initial passage by the House. The Act retained its same principal purposes.
Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2018
The FCC this week released its draft order proposing to eliminate the requirement that broadcasters file certain contracts relating to ownership and control with the Commission. Instead, the disclosure of these documents will be made simply by observing the current requirement that stations either (1) make those documents available in the station’s online public file, or (2) make available a list of the required documents in the online public file with the documents themselves provided within 7
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Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2018
Earlier this year, there was a settlement window for mutually exclusive applications in the FCC’s application window for new FM translators for Class A and B AM stations. The FCC yesterday released a list of the applications that are now grantable as a result of conflict resolutions filed during that settlement window. These applicants must file their “long-form applications,” setting out the technical details of their proposed operations, during a filing window that will open October 4 and clos
Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 2, 2018
Only three weeks ago, we wrote about an application for experimental authority filed by an AM station operator in Arizona, seeking permission to cease operating its AM station for a one year test to operate solely with its paired FM translator. We suggested that this proposal portended much for the AM band. However, the FCC apparently did not see this proposal as that earthshaking, and while we were at the NAB Radio Show last week, it dismissed the request for experimental authority to conduct t
Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 11, 2018
Late last week, the FCC issued a “ Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ” in its AM Revitalization Proceeding. The FCC has been taking steps over the last several years to attempt to restore AM radio to health. In last week’s Further Notice, the FCC followed up on ideas that it floated in 2016 in a prior order in the AM revitalization proceeding (see our articles here and here ) suggesting that protections afforded to Class A AM stations be lessened in order to allow increased power by o
Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2018
In this “political” year with Congressional mid-term elections in November, including many hotly contested races for seats in the US House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as many state and local elections, I receive many questions from broadcasters across the country. Perhaps the area in which most questions are received deals with the “political file,” particularly because these files are now available online.
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