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• Why Can’t We Be Friends?

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  For some lawyers, joining Facebook is a no-brainer. not so for solo Michelle Rozovics. “It was a huge, huge decision,” says Rozovics, whose office is in the Chicago suburb of Crystal Lake.
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• PI Associate Takes Cousin’s Case and Wins in the Supreme Court

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  Personal injury associate J. Craig Smith couldn’t turn down his father’s request to take on the case of his cousin Norman, who was fired from his job as a supervisor in a carpet manufacturer after alleging the company was hiring undocumented aliens. "When my father called me from Georgia [in 2006] about Norman ...
  4 days ago

• Law Firm Trades Library for Xmas Shop, Employs All Hands on Sales Floor

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  Once upon a time, Bayless & Stokes needed a law library. But today it is largely duplicated on the Internet, and members of the small Houston firm began to wonder how it could better use the space. The answer, they decided, was to create Christmas shop selling holiday items on the ground floor of their law firm. ...
  5 days ago

• New Solos Get Cheap Rents and Good Deals, But Will Clients Come?

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  Three Florida lawyers hanging out their own shingle say the bad economy makes it a good time to start a law firm. Rents are cheap, and so is used office furniture, lawyer Maggie Jo Hilliard told the Jacksonville Financial News & Daily Record. Hilliard, a 2005 graduate of the Florida Coastal School of Law, worked ...
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• Law Firm Abandons iPhone After Experts Warn of Security Issues

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  Warnings about potential security risks have spurred one mid-sized law firm to abandon its iPhones, to the disappointment of one of its lawyers who complained. Consultant Sharon Nelson wrote about the unnamed law firm in her blog Ride the Lightning. The disappointed lawyer sent word of the firm’s switch to ...
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• Blagojevich Evidence Stolen in Law Firm Break-in

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  A lawyer for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has reported that evidence in the corruption case was stolen from his Chicago office early this morning. The Chicago Tribune reports that at least one computer containing undercover recordings from the case was taken in a 4 a.m. break-in at the South Side law offices ...
  2 weeks ago

• Smaller Law Firms Struggle with Morale Issues in Bonus Decisions

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  The gossip mill at smaller law firms can lead to morale issues at bonus time. The Connecticut Law Tribune notes the problem. “With just a handful of employees, its hard to keep individual bonus totals a secret,” the story says. “That can leave a subset of employees who might be miffed and thus, distracted, if ...
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• Scalia in Lawyer Free Speech Case: Constitution Doesn’t Ban Stupid Laws

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  Justice Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. appeared to differ yesterday during oral arguments on whether a restriction on bankruptcy advice violates lawyers’ First Amendment rights. A small Minnesota law firm is challenging the 2005 law that prohibits debt relief agencies from advising clients to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Clean & Sober for 6 Years, Lawyer Starts New Solo Practice

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 689
  Although he pleaded guilty in 1992 to misdemeanor cocaine use two years earlier, Terry Nolan didnt realize he had a substance abuse problem. He stopped drinking, for good, in 1998, the Michigan defense attorney tells the Muskegon Chronicle. But, fueled with the funds brought in by his successful law practice, he kept ...
  3 weeks ago

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