The Empowered Paralegal
MAY 22, 2019
A personal injury case can be a complicated case. You need to make sure that you know all the strategies to win the case. Unlike other cases, a personal injury case might take, but it is worth the wait. There are certain instances when you can file a personal injury case. You can file a personal injury case after a car accident or even injury at the workplace.
NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
MAY 28, 2019
You know what they say: good people are hard to find. And, if you run a business, you know that it’s true. The most difficult hurdle to law firm growth is staffing up. Managing people is definitely tough; but, so is hiring the right people in the first place. The good news is that hiring well can be a learned skill, too, just like becoming a good manager.
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LegalTalkNetwork
MAY 15, 2019
The ABA Section of Antitrust Law recently recorded a series of podcasts covering the latest developments in competition and consumer protection law. This 12-part installment features some of the specialty’s biggest names discussing the most pressing issues in this practice area today. Among the many topics covered are the following: 67th Antitrust Law Spring Meeting.
CaseFleet
MAY 17, 2019
Facts mean a lot. The who, what, where, when, and why of cases can make all the difference in a case. Aside from finding the facts, there's also the important task of organizing them. If there are many facts, organization is what differentiates a compelling narrative from a tale full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing. That's why we built CaseFleet: to help you build stronger cases on a solid foundation of facts and evidence.
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A Synergistic Approach to eDiscovery In the space of eDiscovery, the convergence of document summarization, sentiment analysis, and chatbots represents a significant change in how legal professionals navigate and manage electronic information. These technologies not only expedite the review process but also empower legal teams with deeper insights into the emotional context and key information within electronic documents.
Strictly Business
MAY 15, 2019
New investment advisers are typically focused on creating marketable investment programs and raising capital. Legal matters are often delegated to outside counsel and the adviser’s investment in operations, staffing and compliance is often kept at a minimum to start. While this strategy may make sense on a budgetary level, new advisers need to devote some attention to inevitable operational issues in order to minimize their cost and disruption.
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Broadcast Law Blog
MAY 30, 2019
The license renewal cycle, about which we have been warning broadcasters for at least the last year (see, for instance, our posts here , here and here ), is now upon us. June 3 is the filing deadline for license renewals for radio stations in Maryland, DC, Virginia and West Virginia. Radio s tations (including FM translators and LPFMs) licensed to any community in any of those states should be filing their renewal applications in the FCC’s Licensing and Management System (LMS) by Monday’s deadli
NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
MAY 19, 2019
First question: Do you have a law firm budget? ? If you answered ‘yes’ — then, good for you!? You’re one of the few, the proud. Second question: When did you last review your law firm budget? ? Okay: now, I can’t be sure of what your response is, but I’m pretty sure I don’t like it. The next (first?) time you review your budget, take a close look at the line items for technology.?
LegalTalkNetwork
MAY 10, 2019
By Rocky Dhir. Host of the State Bar of Texas Podcast and President & CEO of Atlas Legal Research, LP. As a vegetarian, salmon mousse shouldn’t intrigue me, but it does now. I even Googled images of what it looks like, having never eaten it myself. My newfound interest in salmon mousse places me in the company of Ken Starr, Jonathan Rose, and Sandra Day O’Connor.
Parasec
MAY 9, 2019
On Friday, June 7, 2019 an employee recognition luncheon is planned for all personnel in the Department of State Division of Corporations. Staff members will be departing at 11:30 a.m., and there will not be an evening shift. This schedule change will mean: There will be no Priority 3 (same day) or Priority 5 (must approvals) All 30-minute and Priority 1 (one-hour service) must be received by 10 a.m.
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Selecting and implementing CLM technology can be daunting, leading to underutilization or abandonment. Factors like provider differentiation, inadequate planning, and lack of user training contribute to these failures. Recognizing these pitfalls is crucial for successful adoption, ensuring organizations harness the full potential of CLM for streamlined contract management.
NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
MAY 15, 2019
Last time, in this space, we addressed the fact that attorneys can exercise ‘the nuclear option’ on any case referral, at any time: they can keep it for themselves.? That’s why it’s so valuable to also network for referrals from non-attorney professionals, who have to find a lawyer to deliver referrals to. But, if you’re comfortable networking with other attorneys, but not non-attorneys, these strategies should help: -Just as you should find lawyers with complementary practices areas to refer ca
NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
MAY 6, 2019
Lawyers tend to congregate together.? This is as much a fact of lawyer life, as it is a fact of professional life.? Once you’re embedded in a career, you start to develop friends who do the same work that you do, and you generally prefer quality hang with colleagues, since you speak the same language — Latin, in the case of the attorney.? In many ways, this is a completely defensible approach — unless it consumes the work life of a professional, at which point: let me introduce you to the lawyer
NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
MAY 1, 2019
You’ve heard the phrase often from busy lawyers, law firm owners particularly: ‘If only I could clone myself’. It’s wishful thinking; but, it gets to the heart of the one barrier to law firm expansion that you can’t fake: In order to grow your business, to scale it. you have to hire. Of course, that’s a hard thing to do, especially for solos, who’ve never had an employee before, or who have only used contractors previously.
Broadcast Law Blog
MAY 29, 2019
Effective yesterday, May 28, the FCC is accepting applications for television stations to begin to convert to the next generation TV transmission standard – ATSC 3.0 or “NexGen TV.” Last week, the Commission issued a Public Notice announcing that the form ( FCC Form 2100 ) necessary for stations to apply to transition to the new standard is now available for both full-power (Schedule B to Form 2100), low power (Schedule D) and Class A TV stations (Schedule F).
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CLM tools have always strived to push contract management into the digital age for almost 30 years. But the complexities of digitising a legal document are numerous. The current scenarios in business development have shown that having a fully automated CLM has become a mandate for every law firm and in-house legal department. To determine if you need a CLM system, it's essential to clearly identify the on-ground business challenges you aim to solve.
Broadcast Law Blog
MAY 20, 2019
Recently, the Radio Music License Committee sent out a memo to broadcasters about a J uly 8, 2019 SoundExchange payment deadline for pre-1972 sound recordings. As with everything in copyright law, the issues surrounding pre-1972 sound recordings are complicated, and the RMLC notice, while seemingly straightforward, still resulted in our receiving lots of questions.
Broadcast Law Blog
MAY 16, 2019
Perhaps some of the most controversial areas in broadcast advertising are those surrounding the advertising of cannabis products. While many states claim to have legalized marijuana, either for medical or recreational purposes, the Federal government still considers its possession a felony , and has specific laws that criminalize the use of radio frequencies, the Internet, and publications to promote its use.
Broadcast Law Blog
MAY 15, 2019
Last week, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) adopted a new rule mandating, at some point later this year after Paperwork Reduction Act approval, that prescription drug advertising on TV contain certain price information. Specifically, HHS will require TV ads for prescription drugs covered by Medicare or Medicaid to include the list price for a month’s supply or for the usual course of therapy, if that price is $35 or more.
The Rainmaker
MAY 14, 2019
Getting Google to rank your website high is a much harder task than you might imagine. In fact, there is an entire industry that has been created based upon helping businesses get their websites ranked high on the search engines. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a multi-billion dollar industry. There are so many tricks of the trade that it is rarely worth the time for any attorney to attempt to become an expert.
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Broadcast Law Blog
MAY 13, 2019
Looking for a brief explanation of the online public inspection file and Quarterly Issues Programs List , and how they will be viewed in connection with the upcoming license renewal cycle – including the potential fines for violations of the rules? The Indiana Broadcasters has just released this video of me discussing those issues available here. We have written in more depth about these issues, including our discussion of the importance of the online public file for the renewal process ( here a
Broadcast Law Blog
MAY 10, 2019
At its open meeting yesterday, the FCC largely adopted the draft order on changes to its processes for resolving complaints about interference from FM translators to existing FM stations. Its final Report and Order adopting the new rules was released after the meeting yesterday. The general guidelines that we detailed in our summary of the draft order were adopted – so that complaints will generally be considered only when they are from within a primary station’s 45 dBu contour (with a pot
Broadcast Law Blog
MAY 9, 2019
The FCC this week released a Public Notice soliciting comments on the request of Univision, which owns US radio and TV stations, to have foreign ownership that exceeds 50%. As we wrote here , the FCC previously permitted foreign ownership of up to 49% of the company. With a restructuring of its investors, the company is now seeking permission for foreign investors to own up to 70% of the company.
Broadcast Law Blog
MAY 9, 2019
The FCC tomorrow will hold a public forum on Electronic Newsroom Technique (ENT) of captioning live TV programming tomorrow from 1 PM to 4:45 PM Eastern Time (see the agenda here ). The forum will be available for viewing online (go to the FCC webpage here for information about connecting). This forum may provide a good refresher for stations still using ENT to caption live programming to make sure that they are providing the quality captioning that the FCC expects as outlined in its orders on c
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Broadcast Law Blog
MAY 31, 2019
The 2020 presidential elections already loom large, with one of the over 20 Democratic candidates for the Presidential nomination seemingly appearing on whatever TV talk show you tune into on your TV set. With the first debate among these candidates scheduled for late June, it seems like we have a real election already underway – and it is time for broadcasters to start thinking about their political broadcasting obligations under FCC rules and the Communications Act , and beginning to make plan
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