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LexisNexis February 2010 Coffee Break Webinars Announced

Global Climate Change Law: New Implications for Businesses, Attorneys and Clients Tuesday, February 23 3:00‐3:20pm EST How do new federal and state climate change regulations and legislation impact your practice, your business and your clients’ businesses? In this 20‐minute Webinar, Bradley Marten, Managing Partner of the Seattle based law firm Marten Law PLLC, introduces the LexisNexis Global Climate Change Special Pamphlets—a new series of publications designed to help you understand the latest developments in climate change legislation, regulation and case law—with special emphasis on the implications for corporations, attorneys and clients. Find out how this new series, written by members of the American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL), can help you: • Prepare sound strategies for dealing with climate change—with complete and up‐to‐date legal analysis of federal and state statutory and case law • Receive regulatory compliance guidance from experts in the fields of environmental law and climate change • Understand the implications of climate change on a wide range of practice areas—environment, energy, real estate, insurance, transportation and others • How to plan for the changes ahead! Register now: www.lexisnexis.com/CBPFeb10 Minimizing Financial Risk with LexisNexis® Public Records Wednesday, February 24 12:00‐12:20pm EST Learn how to minimize your client’s or company’s financial risk by utilizing the powerful tools and resources of LexisNexis Public Records. You’ll learn how to unearth hidden connections among people and businesses that you can’t easily find through other providers or the open Web. Find out how LexisNexis Public Records can help you to: • Conduct due diligence more effectively • Locate witnesses, business owners and elusive parties • Gather competitive intelligence and track assets • Reveal business liabilities, foreclosures, judgments, liens and UCCs • Access public records on more than 450 million unique persons • Identify 150 million unique businesses and 2,013 tax assessor counties • Uncover Tax ids/FEIN numbers • And more! Register now: www.lexisnexis.com/CBPFeb10 Net Operating Losses: Research How to Make Them Your Gain Wednesday, February 24 3:00‐3:20pm EST Due to the dramatic downturns in the economy, corporations of all sizes across all industries have sustained losses on an historic scale. Find out how you can stay on top of an ever‐changing and extremely complex series of laws and administrative rules in order to properly advise your clients or company. In this 20‐minute Webinar, learn how to ensure that you are aware of the latest developments on net operating losses and access information that will help you to manage these losses. Topics covered include: • Rules for determining the amount of net operating loss • Rules for governing how to carry back and carry forward unused net operating losses • How to utilize net operating losses acquired from other companies via mergers and acquisitions • The varying state tax law rules on net operating losses—and whether they conform with federal rules • And much more! Register now: www.lexisnexis.com/CBPFeb10

9 February, 10
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Marketing Tip: Take a Client to Lunch

Once a month, take a different client out to lunch or meet them at their business.

15 February, 10
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ABA TECHSHOW 2010 Early Bird Pricing Ends February 19, 2009

State Bar of Wisconsin members can receive a $50.00 special discount. Please use Event Promoter Code EP1020 when registering online or by completing the Event Promoter Registration Form,

16 February, 10
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Get your FREE PDF of the Federal Rules of Evidence 2010

Hat tip to fellow PMA and Blogger Jim Calloway who let me know that you can download a free pdf version of the Federal Rules of Evidence 2010 from the Federal Evidence Review website. This download provides you with a fully searchable pdf of the latest FRE.

18 February, 10
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Marketing Tip: Always Give your Client 2 Business Cards

Happy clients can be some of your best marketing, so give them a card to keep and one to pass on to someone else.

1 March, 10
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Do You Know What Free Legal Research Your State Bar Offers?

The folks over at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog (Toby Brown, Lisa Salazar & Greg Lambert) have a post putting up an interactive map of the US that shows which legal research product the bar associations of each state provides to its members. The map is from the Many Eyes site which I hadn't encountered before but is pretty interesting.

10 March, 10
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Marketing Tip: When you get a business card, don’t just throw it in a drawer!

When you receive a business card from someone, use the back side to write down where you met them and one thing that they seemed to be interested in.

15 March, 10
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Danger Will Robinson: One Email Causes Big Headache for a Small Law Firm

For everyone who remembers t he 1960's SciFi series Lost in Space, the events that recently hit Crosby Higgins LLP would be the point in the show where the robot says Danger, Will Robinson, danger.. Every lawyer should read One Very Small Law Firm; One Extremely Large Computer Virus found at the Wall Street Journal Law Blog. In his post, author Ashby Jones details how this latest scam impacted this firm and the stress placed on it's staff.

18 March, 10
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