LAWYER MARKETING
• Making The Most Of
Client Surveys
• Before Starting to Write: Maximizing the
Potential of Bylined Articles
TOOLS OF THE
TRADE
• Setting Up Your Office: Furniture and
Supplies
• Privacy Apps Have Potential to Help, Hinder
Attorneys
LAWYER LIFESTYLE
• The
Unique Psychological World of Lawyers
• Explorations in
Wine
COURT SIDE
• It's Time for the
Supreme Court's Sony Betamax Decision to Be Reversed
•
"Lawyers.com" Ruled Too Generic to Trademark
• The Supreme Court
as Umpire?: How the Global Warming Decision Illuminates the Role We
Ask the Justices to Play
INSIDER TIPS & SMALL FIRM
NEWS
• Court Order Bans Owner of Rap-A-Lot Records
From 'Harassing' Rival Rap Music Executive
• Illinois
Franchisees File Class Action Suit Against Quiznos Sub
•
Federman & Sherwood Announces That a Securities Class Action
Lawsuit Has Been Filed Against Amgen, Inc.
• Bill
Broadening Prescribing Rights to Psychologists Unsafe and
Unnecessary
• NCRC Calls For a Congressionally-Mandated Stay To
Slow Down ´Foreclosure Mills´ Operated By Law Firms
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LAWYER MARKETING:
MAKING
THE MOST OF CLIENT SURVEYS
(Charles A. Maddock) -
Client surveys have become increasingly popular among law firms. And
with good reason.Properly designed, client surveys can help the firm
in many ways. Read
more...
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Marketing White Papers and More!
BEFORE
STARTING TO WRITE: MAXIMIZING THE POTENTIAL OF BYLINED
ARTICLES
(Steven A. Meyerowitz) - Article writing is
an important business development tool. But to obtain the most value
from an investment of time and money in writing bylined articles,
lawyers should take a number of steps before the writing actually
begins. Read
more...
TOOLS OF THE TRADE:
SETTING
UP YOUR OFFICE: FURNITURE AND SUPPLIES
(FindLaw's
Law Firm Business Center) - Attorneys looking to start up a firm
often look for the best furniture, equipment, and supplies available
so as to impress their prospective clients once the office is open.
However, lawyers just starting out their careers or making a clean,
fresh transition from another practice may have to be more practical
in their considerations. Read
more...
PRIVACY
APPS HAVE POTENTIAL TO HELP, HINDER
ATTORNEYS
(FindLaw's Legal Technology Center) - A
number of scandals in recent years have revealed the power of the
electronic record. From Enron to the Foley page scandal, email and
instant messaging technologies have provided evidence of wrongdoing
long after their users had assumed that the information had
disappeared into the ether. Information stored by web browsers and
on Internet servers can also hold secrets about web-browsing habits
that most users would prefer not to reveal. With this in mind, a
number of developers have created programs and services that protect
privacy by reducing or eliminating the electronic trail that online
communications typically leave behind. Read
more...
LAWYER LIFESTYLE:
THE
UNIQUE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORLD OF LAWYERS
(Ronda Muir) -
A psychological profile of lawyers is strikingly different from that
of Americans generally. That means that, in many ways, entering a
law firm or law department amounts to entering into a world
different from the one "outside," with different majority and
minority attitudes and traits, different expectations and different
ways of making decisions and dealing with conflict. Read
more...
EXPLORATIONS
IN WINE
(FindLaw's Law Firm Business Center) -
You've managed to figure out the basic "red wine with red meat,
white wine with white meat (pork doesn't count)" rule. Now you're
looking to try something a bit more exotic. In fact, you've decided
that if you know a wine's name, it's not good enough for your
palate. You're looking to travel (please don't drink and drive) down
the road less traveled. A few vino suggestions for as you begin your
exploration. Read
more...
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More Out of Your Lawyer Lifestyle
COURT SIDE:
IT'S TIME
FOR THE SUPREME COURT'S SONY BETAMAX DECISION TO BE
REVERSED
(Marci Hamilton) - Recently, the Wall
Street Journal's front page reported on the new practice of creating
"guerrilla video sites" -- websites that offer menus of links to
illegal video copies of television shows and movies. For obvious
reasons, the television and motion picture industries are not happy
with the sites. For equally obvious reasons, the practice of posting
the links is illegal: a prime example of contributory copyright
infringement. Read
more...
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• FindLaw's Writ: Daily Legal
Commentary
"LAWYERS.COM"
RULED TOO GENERIC TO TRADEMARK
(Kevin Fayle) - A
company seeking to register the "Lawyers.com" mark received some bad
news out of the Federal Circuit recently. The court upheld the
Patent and Trademark Office's determination that the mark was too
generic in relation to the kinds of services offered on the website,
and affirmed the PTO's denial of the registration. Read
more...
THE SUPREME
COURT AS UMPIRE?: HOW THE GLOBAL WARMING DECISION ILLUMINATES THE
ROLE WE ASK THE JUSTICES TO PLAY
Chief Justice John
Roberts gave a memorably smooth performance during his confirmation
hearings. The moment for which his testimony may be most vividly
remembered, is one where he used a metaphor to describe the judicial
role: Judges are like baseball umpires, Roberts said. Their job is
simply to call balls and strikes, applying the strike zone defined
by the Constitution and the laws the Congress enacts. Read
more...
Related Resources
• Read the Decision
(Mass. v. EPA)
INSIDER TIPS & SMALL FIRM NEWS:
COURT
ORDER BANS OWNER OF RAP-A-LOT RECORDS FROM 'HARASSING' RIVAL RAP
MUSIC EXECUTIVE
(PRN) - A Houston-area state
district judge has granted a Temporary Restraining Order against
James Prince a/k/a J. Prince. The order, requested by rival
recording executive Ronnie Bookman, follows allegations that Prince
arranged for Bookman to be severely beaten in a dispute involving
Houston's hip hop industry. Read
more...
Related Resources
• John
Thomas of Hicks Thomas & Lilienstern, Plaintiff's
Counsel
ILLINOIS
FRANCHISEES FILE CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST QUIZNOS
SUB
A class-action lawsuit was filed against Quiznos
Sub today in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
Illinois, alleging that the company has systematically defrauded its
franchisees in a scheme designed to build the brand at the expense
of its operators in the field. Read
more...
Related Resources
• Plaintiff's
Attorney Justin M. Klein's TLR Profile
FEDERMAN
& SHERWOOD ANNOUNCES THAT A SECURITIES CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT HAS
BEEN FILED AGAINST AMGEN, INC.
On April 17, 2007, a
class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court
for the Central District of California against Amgen, Inc. . The
complaint alleges violations of federal securities laws, Sections
10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule
10b-5, including allegations of issuing a series of material
misrepresentations to the market which had the effect of
artificially inflating the market price. The class period is from
May 4, 2005 through March 9, 2007. Read
more...
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About Federman & Sherwood
BILL
BROADENING PRESCRIBING RIGHTS TO PSYCHOLOGISTS UNSAFE AND
UNNECESSARY
(PRN) - Setting the stage for another
legislative battle that puts mental health patients in the middle, a
bill seeking to give licensed psychologists prescribing privileges
for dangerous medications is scheduled to be heard on April 23, 2007
in the Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development
Committee. The bill, SB 993, is the fifth legislative attempt since
1995 to broaden psychologists' scope of practice. Read
more...
NCRC
CALLS FOR A CONGRESSIONALLY-MANDATED STAY TO SLOW DOWN ´FORECLOSURE
MILLS´ OPERATED BY LAW FIRMS
(PRN) - The National
Community Reinvestment Coalition urged lawmakers today to pass
legislation immediately to shut down the "foreclosure mills" being
operated by law firms, racing to kick out financially-troubled
subprime borrowers from their homes. The law firms represent
mortgage servicers, Wall Street investment firms and lenders. Read
more...
