NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JULY 29, 2019

Most people (me included) will tell you to get on social media because it’s great for marketing your law firm.? Well, it is: that’s still true.? But, there are also ancillary benefits to that. One of the primary additional benefits of being professionally active on social media services is the wide opportunity to meet other professionals.? You’ll want to get to know other professionals on social media because it’s a great way to drive referrals to your law practice from complementary businesses,

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JULY 22, 2019

I know I'm going to get screamed at for this but. You remember the story about the Emperor's New Clothes ? Seems a king was tired of his wardrobe and wanted something "new." So he searched around and found a couple of "new" fashion designers who told him they had come up with a "new" design - something that would just blow him away. The day of the unveiling arrived and out walks the king in his new suit of clothes.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JULY 26, 2019

Legal Talk Network had the privilege of attending the 6th Annual Wolters Kluwer Leading Edge Conference in Riverwoods, Illinois just outside of Chicago. Nestled back into the woods at the conference center, the attendees were welcomed by the organizers from Wolters Kluwer, who could not have been nicer (please see list of organizers below). They took care of all us weary travelers, making sure we ate and were properly introduced to one another.

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LexBlog

JULY 19, 2019

Being a paralegal is a challenging career full of ups and downs. It is a career path that will shake you up and show you what you are made of. It is not a job for everyone, so read closely. I am about to list the top 5 best and worst things about being a paralegal in 2019. Let’s start with the Top 5 Best things about being a paralegal: 1. High Demand.

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ABA Journal

JULY 11, 2019

I hate being on the road too early in the morning; sometimes it’s just you and a long stretch of highway until the sun rises.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JULY 15, 2019

The legendary business book ‘ The E Myth ’ discusses the difference between working ‘in’ a business, and working ‘on’ a business. It turns out that subtle prepositional shift means a whole lot. Those who work ‘in’ a business focus on moving the day-to-day operations of that business forward. You’re getting out the paperwork. You’re tracking and billing for time.

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JULY 29, 2019

My kids love playing tag. Actually, now that I think of it, it's not the act of getting tagged as it is the chase - they love getting chased and caught and then chased, again. They can never get enough. I suspect that's what was going through the head of the young lady who cut in front of EVERYONE on the freeway today. Driving the most gosh awful colored puke green Ford fiesta you have every seen, this lady got on the freeway and proceeded to cut over three lanes to get in the #1 lane.and then s

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LegalTalkNetwork

JULY 23, 2019

Held in Scottsdale, Arizona, the 2019 NALA Conference & Expo was perhaps their hottest conference to date with temperatures clocking in at 112 degrees. But the heat didn’t keep the association from a record attendance. Paralegals were enthusiastically involved and traveled from all over the country to join in on the educational fun. This year’s billing included over 30 sessions and an opportunity to earn up to 13 CLE hours with online options-for-credit for those not able to attend in person

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Open Law Lab

JULY 25, 2019

My sketches of designer/UK Policy Lab leader Andrea Siodmok’s talk at the Digital Citizens conference in Melbourne. She presented on methods and theory of how design and futurist/speculative design methods in particular can be used to make systems change.

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ABA Journal

JULY 11, 2019

I hate being on the road too early in the morning; sometimes it’s just you and a long stretch of highway until the sun rises.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 16, 2019

Last week, a federal District Court ruled that the US Department of Health and Human Services did not have the authority to require that drug manufacturers include pricing information on their television commercials. We wrote about that requirement, here – a requirement that was supposed to go into effect this summer. However, the District Court judge found that there was no statutory authority on which HHS could rely for the adoption of this rule.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JULY 10, 2019

Let me be clear: your job as a lawyer is NOT to be the next Andrew Carnegie. That’s in part because law firms are inherently geographically - limited business es -- in the main. What’s to stop Wal-mart from opening another location across the state line? Essentially nothing. What’s to stop a law firm from doing the same thing? Well, another bar exam passage (or waive-in process), for one.

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LexBlog

JULY 19, 2019

Being a paralegal is a challenging career full of ups and downs. It is a career path that will shake you up and show you what you are made of. It is not a job for everyone, so read closely. I am about to list the top 5 best and worst things about being a paralegal in 2019. Let’s start with the Top 5 Best things about being a paralegal: 1. High Demand.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JULY 3, 2019

Held annually and put on by LegalShield, Elevate is a conference dedicated to connecting and empowering lawyers who strive to close the Access-to-Justice Gap. This year’s gathering was held at the Grand Hyatt in Denver, Colorado. In addition to river rafting, Elevate 2019 offered at least 10 hours of state-approved CLE for those in live attendance. The educational sessions were aimed at small to large-sized firms and covered topics like r educing costs, improving processes, artificial intelligen

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Open Law Lab

JULY 25, 2019

A sketch of Arjuna Dibley and Rachelle Cole’s talk on how we might conceive of government/public data not as private goods or public goods, but as club goods. From the Digital Citizens Conference at Melbourne.

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JULY 11, 2019

Effective July 1, (pursuant to Senate Bill 1043) the filing fee for documents filed with the county recorder has been changed to a flat fee of $30 per recording document (except plats and surveys) in the state of Arizona. The flat fee eliminates the need to determine recording fees, which were previously based on a variety of factors including: number of pages, indexing categories, additional referencing recordation numbers, and more.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 9, 2019

In a very important proceeding we summarized here , the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division is reviewing the antitrust consent decrees that govern ASCAP and BMI – the decrees that require that these performing rights organizations treat similarly situated licensees (and artists) in the same way and which allow a Court to review the reasonableness of the rates that ASCAP and BMI propose.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JULY 2, 2019

What would you say if you randomly came upon someone asking you what you do for work? Will you stumble across your words, or have something coherent to say instead, that even serve s to drive new business? If it’s the former, it’s time to develop your elevator pitch. You know what this is : It’s your thirty second business pitch, theoretically offered up on a short elevator trip , during wh ich you’re compelled to access a new business opportunity.

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LexBlog

JULY 17, 2019

First, what is a podcast? In case you’ve never heard of a ‘podcast’ let me very quickly explain what it is and why you should be listening to them if you’re not already. Podcasts are mostly audio(sometimes video), regularly released episodes covering specific topics. In reality they should be known as ‘Netcasts’ as they are generically audio episodes ‘cast’ over the internet, however, Apple coined the term very early as the majority of listeners us

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LegalTalkNetwork

JULY 3, 2019

This year was the 69th anniversary of The Florida Bar’s Annual Convention which was held in Boca Raton, Florida at the beautiful Boca Raton Resort and Club. Attendees had a cornucopia of special events and sessions to choose from, including 83 credits worth of CLE programming and a luncheon featuring Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The ever thoughtful convention planners even arranged to have discounted spa services and child care available for those in need. .

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Open Law Lab

JULY 25, 2019

Another sketch from Andrea Siodmok, of the UK Policy Lab, about how a design approach to policy work, as opposed to more traditional or bureaucratic approach.

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Parasec

JULY 10, 2019

Effective July 1, 2019, the New Mexico Secretary of State no longer requires original/”wet” signatures for corporate or LLC business filings. Limited Partnerships filings, however, still require an original signature.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 2, 2019

We have written several articles (see our articles here and here ) about the regulation of CBD and the risks inherent in the broadcast of advertisements for these products. CBD is in a legal limbo, as the Farm Act of 2018 took hemp products with less than.3% THC off the list of prohibited drugs on Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, but the production of these products is still subject to rules that have not yet been written by the USDA.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JULY 20, 2019

When most lawyers think about niche practice, their notion is that of a practice limited to one, or a few, practice areas. And, that’s one of the chief reasons that attorneys approach the notion of a niche practice with s ome combination of trepidation and dread. Because selling out on one or a few practice areas brings with it risk. It could work out famously -- or, not so much -- which would necessitate a shift in the entire practice to resolve.

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JULY 17, 2019

First, what is a podcast? In case you’ve never heard of a ‘podcast’ let me very quickly explain what it is and why you should be listening to them if you’re not already. Podcasts are mostly audio(sometimes video), regularly released episodes covering specific topics. In reality they should be known as ‘Netcasts’ as they are generically audio episodes ‘cast’ over the internet, however, Apple coined the term very early as the majority of listeners us

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