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February 20, 2015

Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Friday, February 20, 2015

weekly review for Law Practice Tips and Florida Insurance Law

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!

How To Leave Your Law Firm And Start A Startup
To start a company that grows, you will eventually have to leave your job. But starting companies has never been less expensive. To get the first version of ReplyAll up and running, we spent only $20K on development. It sucked and didn’t gain much traction, but it was something to work with and we were able to use the the first version to iterate and build something a little better. What this means for you is that you can keep your job while having a freelance technical team build a lean version of your idea that you can test on nights and weekends to see if your idea has legs.

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Legal Tech Tips: How lawyers use Dropbox
Dropbox is an online storage vault for your files that syncs with a designated folder on your computer and across mobile devices. It’s increasingly popular with lawyers as the 2014 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report indicates, with 65.3% of lawyers downloading Dropbox in 2014, up from only 15.2% the prior year.

Here are stories from lawyers who use Dropbox. Read more here…

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February 16, 2015

Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Monday, February 16, 2015

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!

Florida Legal News: FL Lawyer Says He Knows How People Can Drive Away Legally From DUI Checkpoints
One Florida attorney says drivers are not required to speak to police at sobriety checkpoints in the state, and he believes he has devised a way to legally prevent police from questioning them.

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Florida Law Updates: Florida considers law to protect digital assets after death
The Florida lawmaker who pushed through a bill to ban the use of biometric data in Florida schools now wants to protect the digital assets of the deceased. Those assets include emails, text messages, online photographs, documents stored in the cloud, electronic bank statements, and social media accounts.

Read more here…

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February 13, 2015

Weekly Review for Veterans and Oral History for Friday, February 13, 2015

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week for U.S. Veterans. Enjoy!

History Makers: “Was it like the old war movies?” Veterans share their stories of WWII
It was the middle of the workday last fall when a colleague brought a gentleman to my office and introduced him to me as the past president of the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge. Retired U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Dillard sat down across from me and we spent some time chatting.

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Machines of History: Mig-3 raised from the bottom of a lake, restored & flies again!
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 was a Soviet fighter aircraft used during World War II. It was a development of the MiG-1 by the OKO of Zavod (Factory) No. 1 to remedy problems that had been found during the MiG-1’s development and operations. It replaced the MiG-1 on the production line at Factory No. 1 on 20 December 1940 and was built in large numbers during 1941 before Factory No. 1 was converted to build the Ilyushin Il-2.

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History Maker: THE REAL BURGER KING- 53 years after the war, WWII veteran receives an unexpected call
After having served in the 667th FAB-Headquarters during the Battle of the Bulge and Rheinland campaign, Corporal E. Frank Sisson from Oklahoma City was promoted as a Line Sergeant and transferred to Berlin where he began working as an investigator for the Military Police.

Christmas day, 1945, would become one of the most memorable days of Frank’s life. Read the rest here…

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February 6, 2015

Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Friday, February 6, 2015

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!

Legal Tech Tools: Wolfram|Alpha iOS App is a Swiss Army Knife for Lawyers
If ever there was a Swiss Army knife of an app for lawyers, it is the Wolfram Lawyer’s Professional Assistant. This multi-function app for iPad and iPhone can perform calendar computations, fee calculations, settlement calculations, interest-rate calculations and more. Use it to research historical weather information or population demographics. Look up legal terms and statutes of limitation. The list of what it can do goes on.

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Legal Tech Tips: Microsoft Readies Launch of Practice Management Product for Lawyers
Microsoft is quietly preparing to formally launch a new practice management product for lawyers in the coming months. The product was scheduled to be announced this month but the announcement has been delayed. It now appears that the product will be rolled out at or around the time of ABA Techshow in April.

Read more here…

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January 26, 2015

Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Monday, January 26, 2015

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, legal marketing and Florida insurance trends. Enjoy!

Legal Tech Tips: How to: Sign a PDF on Android without Printing a Thing
Now that it is 2015 – hell, even dating back to 2012 – you should know how to sign a PDF document without having to print a piece of paper. If you don’t yet, that’s OK, because the inspiration behind this post is the fact that almost the entire Droid Life team had no idea how to do this until a day or so ago (you know who you are). Thankfully, we can teach you in the easiest of ways, because Adobe Reader has signature support built in. Didn’t know that either? Well, good, now you do.

Read more here…

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January 23, 2015

Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Friday, January 23, 2015

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, legal marketing and Florida insurance trends. Enjoy!

Medical marijuana supporters unveil new proposal for 2016
Florida’s medical marijuana initiative is back and, its backers say, new and improved.

The proposed amendment, submitted Thursday to the Florida Secretary of State’s office, closely resembles the 2014 initiative that narrowly failed at the ballot box — however it was rewritten throughout in an attempt to quiet critics who said it had too many loopholes.

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Homeowners insurance policies are being dumped by Citizens
Citizens Property Insurance has now received another wave of shedding homeowners insurance policies from regulators, and the company has now revealed that it will be able to reduce its size by more than what it had once thought.

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Florida’s Citizens Settled Almost 70% of Sinkhole Claims in 2014
Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has reached settlement agreements with more than 1,650 Florida homeowners to end litigation on sinkhole repair cases that was delaying critical repairs to their properties.

As of Dec. 15, 2014, Citizens had reached agreements with 1,669 policyholders so work could begin on homes damaged by sinkholes.

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Florida Insurance News: Florida Insurance Commissioner McCarty’s Reappointment in Doubt
Florida’s insurance regulator’s tenure could be coming to an end after more than a decade as the newly re-elected governor looks to shake up his administration by replacing the heads of state agencies.

Read more here…

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January 19, 2015

Weekly Review for U.S. Veterans for Monday, January 19, 2015

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week for U.S. Veterans. Enjoy!

Help a Veteran: Operation Stand Your Back

Retired Disabled Vietnam vet and National Guard retiree’s house goes into foreclosure 1-15-15.

After 3 surgeries in 2014 alone, following several others over the years, Mid Missouri resident, Bob and Sandy Sneller’s home is schedules for foreclosure by mid month. Mr. Sneller’s wife, Sandy, has had two bouts of cancer, numerous other medical problems.

Read more here…

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January 16, 2015

Weekly Review for Law Practice Tips for Friday, January 16, 2015

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!

Legal Tech: NetDocuments Adds Smart Email Management with Recommind’s Decisiv
Decisiv allows NetDocuments to add email management to its already-great document management. And not just email management, but smart email management.

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Former NFL Players Advance Claims Over Images in Madden Video Games
Electronic Arts Inc., maker of the Madden NFL video games, lost a bid to dismiss claims by former Los Angeles Rams quarterback Vince Ferragamo and thousands of other retired professional football players that the company owes them money for depicting them in its products.

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Tech Tips: Five apps for creating timelines
There are many reasons to keep a timeline. You might want to create a chronological map of how a project or company developed, track a family history, or follow your career progress or trajectory. But whatever the reason, you need the right tool to make the timeline easy to work with. You can’t just use a spreadsheet or text document to create a helpful, interactive tool. Instead, you need the right software to do the job.

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January 12, 2015

Weekly Review for Florida Insurance Law for Monday, January 12, 2015

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week for the insurance industry, Florida insurance law, Florida insurance claims, and Florida insurance trends. Enjoy!

Flood insurance rates in Florida to spike for some properties
NON-PRIMARY RESIDENCES ARE GOING TO BE SEEING AN INCREASE IN THEIR PREMIUMS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST FLOODING – Although owners of primary residences have been breathing a sigh of relief over recent flood insurance news, the story for owners of rental properties and vacation homes will soon be quite different.

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Florida’s Citizens Drops Coverage Limits on High-Value Properties
Florida’s state-backed property insurer is lowering the amount of coverage it provides for high-value properties from $1 million to $900,000, per a 2013 law change. Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is implementing the change that will apply to all almost all new and renewal high-value business as of January 1.

Read more here…

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January 9, 2015

Weekly Review for Law Practice Tips for Friday, January 9, 2015

Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!

Law Practice Management Tips: Can Free Consultations Pay Off for Lawyers?
Smooth or crunchy? Sean Connery or Roger Moore? Free consultations or no? These are the debates that characterize our times. Because this is a legal blog, we’re going to have to save the first two for another blog (although, off the record, the answers are “crunchy” and “Roger Moore”).

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Law Practice Tips: 20 Law Practice Empowerment Tips
At the American Bar Association’s annual GPSolo National Solo and Small Firm Conference in October, practice management experts Peggy Gruenke and Alan Klevan presented “60 Practice Empowerment Tips in 60 Minutes” — focused on the nuts-and-bolts of running a successful law practice. We asked the pair to zero in on their favorite practice-boosting pointers.

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Law Practice Tips: How to eliminate 80% of your law firm’s past due accounts
According to a survey by LexisNexis, 73% of law firms report having past due accounts. Lawyers in small firms reported that up to 39% of their total client base is past due. What causes this? And what can be done about it?

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Florida Debt Collection Defense: Debt Collectors Hound Millions of Retired Americans
It may be hard to imagine Grandma unable to pay her bills or Grandpa being hounded by debt collectors. But for millions of Americans, this is the harsh reality of retirement.

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Florida Legal News: Finally, the muzzle is off! Bar drops past results restrictions from lawyer advertising
Amounts that clients have won in lawsuits are again permissible for lawyers to use in television, radio, and billboard advertising.

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Legal Tech Tips: Lawyers Going Google: How to Use and Supercharge Gmail and Calendar
Millions of corporations, small businesses, solo lawyers, large and small law firms, and federal, state, and local governments have “gone Google.”

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