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The severe storms that struck southern and central Wisconsin in early June left hundreds of homes, roads and businesses under several feet of water. The misery was compounded when many home and business owners, including law offices, found themselves without insurance coverage for their losses. Standard property insurance policies cover damage to property caused by such things as fire, tornado, wind, lightning and hail, but they generally do not cover damage caused by floods and certain other perils. Madison Attorney Gordon Davenport outlines options to help lawyers fully protect their businesses in the event of floods and other risks.
For lawyers who are required to travel due to their type of practice or even lawyers who are travelling for leisure, trying to navigate the rocks and shoals of rules, regulations, restrictions and “convenience charges†can be rough sailing. There are a number of websites that can assist with selecting flights such as Kayak or AirfareWatchdog or SmarterTravel , or determining if the seat you’ve selected is a good one at Seatguru .
Putting aside any potential privacy issues with using Gmail as your primary email for your law office, one still cannot overlook the profound impact that Gmail has had on email.
Excel is one of those programs that has a thousand and one uses in a law office, but getting the most out of it can sometime be a challenge. I am always on the lookout for ways to do more, easier with Excel
RocketMatter, bills itself as "The web generation of legal software" and began offering it's online online practice management product has reached out to lawyers displaced by this summers floods.
The ISBA Mutual Insurance Company recently posted an article on their website titled 'Debt Be Not Proud' providing an introduction to the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act. As a former collections attorney, I saw how easy it can be for attorneys to be guilty of a technical violation and to have a defendant's attorney file suit in federal court for such a violation.
LA provides the Legal Management Resource Center (LMRC ) which contains terrific articles and other materials many of which are free and don’t require an ALA Membership. One such article is Put On a Happy Face (and Mean It). Ponder these Points to Make Your Firm a More Pleasant Place to Workhttp://thesource.alanet.org/imageserver/plumtree/portal/public/img/sp.gif . The article’s author, Kriss Will, tried to convey the concept that office managers need to stop looking at attorneys as the “enemy†and stop the habit of bashing the attorneys. According to the author:
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