NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 28, 2019

Review some law firm logos, and you’ll probably find similar characteristics: prominent use of gavels and/or columns; the logo design will likely be based on the first letters of the last names of the name partners; and, the color scheme will probably be blue/white or gray. What I’m trying to say is that pretty much every law firm logo is the same. In a massively competitive market, like legal, that’s a bad thing, because when you’re scraping for business against every other estate planning law

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 18, 2019

We just completed a co-produced three part series of podcasts with FOX TV and our media partner Above The Law. Each of these episodes orbits around FOX TV’s new show titled ‘ Proven Innocent ’. Set in Chicago, the production follows main character Madeline Scott (played by Rachelle Lefevre), an exonerated-murderer turned innocence lawyer who helps others wrongfully incarcerated for crimes they didn’t commit, especially if they were convicted by the zealously tough-on-crime prosecutor and politic

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 27, 2019

For decades, the FCC has been attempting to solve problems with AM reception – in the 90s looking to protect AMs from each other, and today trying to assist them in overcoming the effects of background “noise” coming from the proliferation of electronic devices in the environment which make AM reception, particularly in urban areas, very difficult. Even a number of car makers have announced plans to remove AM radios from new vehicles – particularly electric ones – given these stations’ susceptib

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ABA Journal

MARCH 8, 2019

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

MARCH 25, 2019

John Marshall Harlan Dissented in Plessy A strong dissenting opinion is something to celebrate. (See e.g., discussion in Part 4a.) But, of course, it is often reason for considerable disappointment that it was not the court's majority.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 17, 2019

If you’re a lawyer, law firm software is everywhere. Make one online search for the term, and you’re caught up in the vortex of SEO -- you’ll be served law firm software advertisements wherever you go online, from now until the end of time. I get how that can be annoying -- but, the point remains that law firms using the right software are more efficient, and make more money.

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 8, 2019

When most of us think about technology, we tend to fixate on our magical products today or dream about the wonders of tomorrow. So often we forget the development steps along the way or how we got things done in the past. Seriously… how did we ever find cheap five-star cuisine two blocks from our hotel without Yelp? Similarly, I bet most legal professionals don’t realize how long ABA TECHSHOW and its mission have been around or the significance of its longevity.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 5, 2019

When is your website or app covered by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and the FTC’s COPPA Rule ? Although there are gray areas under COPPA, one clear way to fall under this law is to know that you’re collecting information from children under the age of 13 online. That’s part of what landed Musical.ly, now known as TikTok, in trouble with the FTC – including a record-setting COPPA fine of $5.7 million.

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ABA Journal

MARCH 8, 2019

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

MARCH 13, 2019

In the last two posts, we looked at the sharp drop in criminal appeals (Criminal Leave Applications [CLA's]) granted at the Court of Appeals in the past few years and at the frequency--and rarity--of grants by each of the Judges. Now let's see how the Court has been deciding those appeals and how each Judge has been voting: pro-prosecution versus pro-accused.

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MARCH 6, 2019

On behalf of Jay S. Rothman & Associates on Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The University of California, Berkeley has suspended a well-known professor over credible allegations of sexual harassment. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a former doctoral student accused the professor of describing his sexual preferences and fantasies to her. Multiple witnesses said they were harassed After reporting the professor, a campus investigator interviewed her and 38 other witnesses.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

Law firms tend to not track things well.? That includes time and billing, where they regularly tend to leave hours on the table.? But, it also extends to other parts of the practice.? So, when was the last time you examined your budget? Lawyers who know their overhead are empowered because they have a baseline idea of what they need to make to keep the lights on, and what they need to make over and above that to earn a comfortable living.?

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 5, 2019

Lawyers are funny in that they sometimes treat cloud technology vendors like visitors from another planet , featuring a mixture of awe and fear. ( ‘To Serve Man’ - it’s a cookbook! ) This stems from an unfamiliarity with cloud tools; but, lawyers aren’t dumb -- they’re just occupied business managers whose primary focus is the substantive tasks they need to do.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

MARCH 27, 2019

In the last post, we looked at two dissents that protested majority decisions at New York's highest court that overturned convictions because of errors having nothing to do with guilt or innocence, and where there was no suggestion that the alleged error by the trial judge had caused any prejudice to the defendant. (See Part 4b.) Now we turn to the other two previously previewed dissents that.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

MARCH 22, 2019

There are famous dissents that were right when written and were ultimately vindicated in cherished landmarks. John Marshall Harlan's dissent, condemning "separate but equal" in Plessy v. Ferguson, became the law of the land in Brown v. Board of Education. Louis Brandeis's dissent in Olmstead v. United States, where he urged a less cramped understanding of search and seizure protections, was.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 4, 2019

The PIRATE Act , imposing Federal penalties on pirate radio station operators, was passed last week by the US House of Representatives and referred to the US Senate for consideration. We wrote about versions of this bill introduced in prior Congressional sessions here and here. This bill, among other things, would impose penalties of up to $100,000 a day for violations of the Act, up to a total maximum fine of $2 million.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2019

April, as we wrote last month , begins the start of the radio license renewal process, with stations in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia having to run on the 1 st and 16 th of the month public notices of the planned filing of their license renewals at the beginning of June. As we also noted last month, April also brings a requirement that, by the 10 th of the month, stations add to their online public file Quarterly Issues Programs Lists for the prior quarter, sett

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2019

It’s that time again. If you are planning any on-air pranks on that air on Monday for April Fools’ Day, think twice. As we do every year about this time, we need to play our role as attorneys and ruin the fun by repeating our reminder that broadcasters need to be careful with any on-air pranks, jokes or other bits prepared especially for the day. While a little fun is OK, remember that the FCC does have a rule against on-air hoaxes.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

In the last few months, we probably have had more questions about advertising for CBD products than any other topic. At this point, CBD products seem to be sold in nearly every state in the country, and discussions about CBD’s effectiveness seem to be staples on national and local television talk programs. Broadcasters naturally ask whether they can advertise these seemingly ubiquitous products.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 21, 2019

In a flurry of actions in the last week, the FCC has acted to assist LPTV stations and TV translators displaced by the TV incentive auction. It also adopted rules to assist FM stations (including FM translators and Low Power FM stations) that were adversely affected by tower work caused by the incentive auction on the towers they share with TV stations.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 19, 2019

As we wrote here , the FCC recently adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to consider changes to its rules dealing with applications for new noncommercial educational stations and LPFM stations. The FCC plans to publish that Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register tomorrow , making comments due May 19, 2019 , with replies due on June 18 assuming publication takes place as planned.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

The FCC on Friday issued a Public Notice reminding radio stations that the license renewal cycle begins in June, when all stations in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia are due to electronically file their license renewal applications , along with the Broadcast Equal Employment Opportunity Report on Form 396 (the 396 being required of all full-power stations, even those with fewer than 5 full-time employees).

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2019

In July, we wrote about the FCC’s plan to transfer the responsibility for EEO enforcement f rom the Media Bureau, where it has resided, to the Enforcement Bureau which the FCC suggested would have more resources and experience to aggressively enforce the FCC’s EEO rules and policies. That transfer was effective on Friday (see the FCC public notice here ).

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 15, 2019

Alternate Title: March Madness Trademarks: It’s March Spring and You Do Not Want to Make the NCAA Mad Angry at You. As we have previously reported, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is very serious about taking action against anyone who may try to trade off the goodwill in its March Madness marks — even if the NCAA’s actual marks are not used.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

Earlier this week, the FCC released an order adopting new rules governing the sale of TV stations serving as “satellites” of other stations in their markets – either rebroadcasting the primary station or otherwise operating in conjunction with that parent station, usually serving rural areas where an independent full-service station cannot economically operate.

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