... its use of multimedia and other emerging technologies to conduct consumer education. In addition, participating in emerging technologies will provide insights to improve the commission's policy and enforcement activities for new media as they evolve. 5. ... create a research agenda on issues of major concern to consumers and consumer protection. Topics for research include how to provide notice about online activities, the growing role of behavioral and experimental economics, and a special role the ...
November 22, 2008 02:15 am

Do You Sincerely Want to be Rich?

(Psychology of Compliance " Due Diligence Law)
... . It would be too good to be true if frauds and scams came with the reliable disclaimer: "I am too good to be true." Providing investors or purchasers of franchises/distributorships with more reliable information does not provide better protection if it induces cognitive dissonance. An old idea, traceable to Socrates in Western Philosophy tradition, is that more information is better: we do not knowingly do wrong or harm. The fault must ...
November 22, 2008 02:08 am
Miramar, Florida - A Broward County car accident left a thirty-six-year old woman dead and her baby seriously injured when the two vehicles involved in the crash collided in the intersection of Pembroke Road and University Drive and then rolled over early Friday morning, officials said. According to Capt. Jeff Levine, a Miramar police spokesman, the woman, Nayfy Gutierrez, was a Pembroke Pines resident and her husband resides in Peru. The crash, which involved Gutierrez's Mazda and a Ford truck ...
November 22, 2008 12:44 am
... in the banking community, the FDIC has acted to protect client funds and assure continued funding for programs that provide legal aid to poor people when economic uncertainties make the need for legal guidance most critical. As a result ... yet, I'm fairly certain that the legislative department of the Pennsylvania Bar Association was key to mobilizing support from Pennsylvania attorneys as well. ========== To return to the main page of the blog, click here. To return to the blog Index, click here.
November 21, 2008 11:54 pm

Principles for Bailout Management

(Truth on the Market)
... at the expense of sound business practice. (b) Don't shoot the messenger. Stop going after short-sellers, always the first ones to ferret out overvaluation, and don't over-regulate hedge funds, whose short-selling often provides the first warning that something's amiss at a company. At the same time, as Jonathan Macey recently argued, companies should be free to respond to manipulative short-selling of their stock by engaging in share repurchases without fearing SEC charges of manipulation. (c) ...
November 21, 2008 11:06 pm
... because I believe that the future success of a law firm depends on its ability to create customer (not "client") teams that develop a deep knowledge of the customer, its business model, and its market so that the team (and therefore the firm) can provide more value to the customer than can currently be done profitably on an hourly-rate billing model. Here is the post: I am currently reading a book I should have read years ago: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. It ...
November 21, 2008 10:56 pm

Jim Mattox - Funeral Details Finalizing

(StandDown Texas Project)
... , Dies at 65 Austin American-Statesman: Self-styled 'people's lawyer' was hard-knuckle fighter in public office Dallas Morning News : Jim Mattox, former Texas AG, lawmaker, 'people's lawyer' dies at 65 Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Former congressman, attorney general Jim Mattox dies at 65 Houston Chronicle: Mattox, self styled 'people's lawyer,' dies at 65 Throughout the last day and a half I've heard from colleagues who are scattered across the country. It's been quite a memory tour looking back ...
November 21, 2008 10:47 pm

Your Genome for $399

(Automating Invention)
Not quite your entire genome, but for $399 the startup company 23andMe will analyze your genome and provide you with personal information including predictions of your risk of developing certain... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit AutomatingInvention.com for full links and other content. ]]
November 21, 2008 10:45 pm

Slides: Troubled Economy and Alternative Fees

(In Search of Perfect Client Service)
DuPage County Bar Association Speech Slides Many thanks to the kind people at the DuPage County Bar Association and the many attorneys who attended my presentation on "The Economy, Legal Fees and Your Future--or--Alternative Fees Will Help You Survive The Economic Downturn." Here are the slides used during my presentation.
November 21, 2008 10:34 pm
On Friday the Women's Legal Service of Queensland held a conference about family law issues. A number of friends attended, including my partner Bruce Provan. I was thinking of attending, but I appeared in court instead. Federal Attorney Robert McClelland did attend, and delivered a speech about the Government's family law priorities. What is evident form the speech is that fmaily law will
November 21, 2008 09:40 pm

Attorney Opens New Legal Aid Centre

(Australian Divorce Blog)
Yesterday the Attorney-General Robert McClelland opened the new Family Dispute Resolution Centre for Legal Aid Queensland at 193 North Quay, Brisbane. Legal Aid Queensland has been engaged in family dispute resolution since 1986 ( I am showing my age as a long time Brisbane family lawyer- I appeared for a client in one of those conferences- now two buildings ago), pioneering the process for legal
November 21, 2008 09:40 pm
... 2. The Commission recommends to the Court that it remove Judge Grant W. Hawkins from office. 3. The Commission asks the Court to suspend Judge Hawkins immediately pursuant to Admission and Discipline Rule 25 V B, which provides, "A judicial officer shall be suspended with pay while there is pending before the Supreme Court a recommendation from the Commission... for the removal of the judicial officer." WHEREFORE, the Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications, by counsel, and with the Chief ...
November 21, 2008 09:39 pm
... and twisted off the rails and skidded, which forced the fourth and fifth cars to break away. The two passengers who died were riding in the fourth car, which crashed into a steel bridge. The National Transportation Safety Board blamed the Metra engineer's failure to heed a crucial signal and the commuter rail agency's lack of a system to override human error as key reasons for the derailment. Comments about this post can be directed to Chicago Accident Attorney Chris Hurley at (312) 553-4900.
November 21, 2008 09:33 pm

Listening To Greenbuild

(Green Building Law)
... conference, but rather to try to really listen to what my green industry fellow travellers were saying. So here is what I heard, in reverse order of importance: 10. Green is becoming mainstream. There were lots of green products providers, but the exhibit hall was primarily filled with the usual suspects in the building industry--Turner, Kohler, skanska, etc. 9. Data is becoming available. A lot of the exhibitors brought nice compilations of data on green building stock. The General Services ...
November 21, 2008 09:26 pm

Rightful Discharge

(Legal Profession Blog)
An attorney-shareholder in a law firm organized as a corporation was discharged after acknowledging that he had altered time records in connection with the representation of a firm client. He sued and summary judgment was granted to the defendant-law firm....
November 21, 2008 09:17 pm
... libraries. The comments he devotes to the position of libraries are very insightful, and they apply to law libraries in spades. It is not uncommon for law libraries to have access to multiple versions of the same journal as provided by separate publishers. The overlap is occasioned by the current licencing options available to libraries as they manage various big deals. Our monograph collections are suffering as a result of the duplication of these expensive arrangements. Who suffers? All the ...
November 21, 2008 09:00 pm
The Federal Register has announced the launch of a new Electronic Public Information Desk to Provide free public access to public documents.* To view these documents, go to www.federalregister.gov (link opens in a new window). ... physically located at the Office of the Federal Register in Washington, DC. See Press Release at: [www.archives.gov] _____________________________________ *Thanks to Linda Defendeifer, Research Analyst at Hogan & Hartson in Washington, DC for providing this information.
November 21, 2008 08:59 pm

Your Trust and Its Schedule A.

(Estate Planning Practice Blog)
... is No, do not past go and contact your estate planning attorney now to prepare a Schedule A. If your answer is Yes, stop and review the ... you had a chance to transfer the asset to your trust. It is called a Heggstad Petition among attorneys (named after a case). It is a useful mechanism to avoid probate in some instances. There are ... saying that if you are confused or not sure, consult with your estate planning attorney regarding your living trust and its Schedule A to make sure it is up to date. ...
November 21, 2008 08:31 pm

Is a Due Process hearing mandatory?

(Virginia Condominium " Homeowners Association Lawyer)
... me an audience with the Board of Directors to dispute the matter. I now have a court date and am looking for an attorney. What area of law should I be looking for my situation and should I consider a counter lawsuit? Answer: I believe the statute ... 55-513 "to the extent the declaration or rules and regulations duly adopted pursuant thereto expressly so provide." It may be the case for your association that the declaration or rules and regulations do not give the board authority to impose charges ...
November 21, 2008 08:19 pm
I wonder what convicted tax felon, Wesley Snipes, thinks about this story: The ABA Journal's Law News Now reports in Lawyer Pleads to Tax Misdemeanors; Feds Say He Didn't File Tax Returns Since 1994 that, A Mississippi attorney who allegedly hasn't filed a federal tax return since 1994 has avoided a trial in the felony tax evasion case he initially faced by pleading guilty today to two misdemeanor counts of failing to file. Marshall Sanders, 57, who practices in Vicksburg, agreed to cooperate ...
November 21, 2008 08:13 pm
 
 

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