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On the Job: Managing a Department of One?
Lawyers tend to embrace the solitary work style. Marketing professionals, on the other hand, can feel overworked and isolated if they have solo responsibility for shepherding a firm's marketing program. When you are a department of one, how do you manage to get your firm's work done and still preserve your sanity and sense of balance?
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Learning From Client-Driven (Literally) Marketing
Seems like the brand name Segway' keeps popping up in unusual places. According to the company manufacturing them, 'The Segway Human Transporter (HT) is the first of its kind ' a self-balancing, personal transportation device that's designed to operate in any pedestrian environment.' To me, they look like pogo sticks on wheels. How does this relate to law firm marketing? The product's manufacturer is making maximum hay out of non-traditional, client-generated marketing.
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Marketing Campaigns That Stand Out
'Let's hire a dumb lawyer.' Five words you're likely never to hear. Lawyers may come in all shapes and sizes, and their styles may run the gamut from presidential to ruthless litigator, but one thing you expect them all to be is smart. A dimwitted attorney is as desirable as an accountant who's bad with numbers, an architect with poor spatial perception or a management consultant who thinks ROI is the French word for king.
Blogging For Law Firms: Not Why, But When and How
Blogs have made it into the mainstream. Dear Abby, earlier this month, offered her opinion to teens on whether or not to blog. A Google search for 'blogs' garnered 1,680,000 results. A similar search just for 'web logs + law firms' offered 18,100 matches. For law firms, blogs seem a natural progression in using the Web for marketing and communications purposes. Once firms were considered behind-the-times if they didn't have a Web site. Then the next great 'must have' wave brought us e-zines, e-letters and e-mail alerts. Now, the race is on to launch law firm blogs.
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Custody Dispute Reaches International Levels
Courts in Texas and New York became embroiled in an international child custody squabble in which New York's Appellate Division, Third Department, awarded sole custody to the mother, rejecting the lower court, the law guardian, the wishes of the children and a prior custody agreement.
Selling the Marital Residence: What Are the Tax Implications?
The marital residence is frequently the most valuable asset found in most divorce cases. Issues of valuation, possession and sale will all involve tax implications. The residence may include a houseboat, a house trailer or the house or apartment that the taxpayer is entitled to occupy as a tenant-stockholder in a cooperative housing corporation. It does not include personal property that is not a fixture. Treas.Reg. '1.121-1(b). Any gain represented by the difference between the present market value or sales price and the adjusted basis will have tax consequences.
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The IME and the Physician/Patient Privilege
Does a patient lose the right to invoke the physician/patient privilege when he or she has seen a physician for an independent medial examination (IME) rather than for treatment? The question may come up in the aftermath of a workers' compensation or medical malpractice case if questions of possible fraud on the claimant's part surface, and you may be asked to advise your client as to his or her rights.
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