Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Friday, June 26, 2015

Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Friday, June 26, 2015

Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Friday, June 26, 2015Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!

Florida Insurance News: Global climate change predictions
Labor productivity would dwindle as workers wilt in the heat. Summers in Illinois would feel like a Louisiana swamp. Epic downpours and surging seas of the future would leave $5 trillion in losses. And worsening air quality would result in 57,000 premature deaths in 2100.

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Miamilawyer1.com adds David Hagen, Esq. as Miami Personal Injury Lawyer
Dave routinely works on a wide-range of personal injury matters, including roadway construction negligence, wrongful death, auto accidents, products liability, and professional liability. He is committed to protecting the rights of those who have been injured due to the negligence of others, working vigorously to obtain fair and just compensation for them so that they have a chance at returning to a normal life. Additionally, Dave believes holding people and organizations accountable for their negligent acts helps everyone by raising awareness for safety concerns and propelling change for the better.

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Legal Marketing Tips: LegalPad as blogging platform
If you are not already familiar with using blogging platforms like WordPress and/or you just do not want to set up your own blog, LegalPad provides a relatively robust place for your legal writing. It comes with the usual blogging tools: the ability to use create headers, use basic HTML commands, create hotlinks to other websites, and embed documents and photos. However, where LegalPad excels is in its ability to integrate cases and other legal documents. You can bookmark cases already found in Casetext and import them into your post. While in the middle of a post draft, you can consult cases without hopping out. You can highlight quotes from a case and cut and paste them into your post and they will come complete with pincites – just like Westlaw.

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Legal News Update: 6 Decisions Coming from Supreme Court Over Next Few Days
The U.S. Supreme Court is saving the best for last.

The nation’s top court will issue a series of major rulings over the next several days as it closes its nine-month term. In addition to landmark gay-marriage and Obamacare cases, the court will decide on potentially far-reaching disputes involving housing discrimination, redistricting, air pollution and lethal injection.

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Florida Law Updates: GPS tracking devices restricted under Florida Law
The web is full of ads for cheap but powerful tracking devices with lots of suggested uses, like tracking a piece of luggage, a package or a child.
“Put one in your child’s backpack and relax while you track their whereabouts at all times,” says an ad for “Hide and Seek”.

But there’s a dark side to this technology that makes GPS satellites your own personal eye in the sky. A U.S. Justice Department survey last year found one in every 13 stalking cases involved electronic monitoring. Ten states have banned it all together.

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Legal News Updated: Insurance fraud investigation begins at Uber
Transportation for London (TFL) has now launched an insurance fraud investigation into Uber, the app based ride share company, after a person successfully used falsified proof of coverage documents in order to become a driver.

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Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Monday, June 22, 2015

Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Monday, June 22, 2015

Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Monday, June 22, 2015Here 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: Florida Appellate Rules are amended
The Florida Supreme Court, on its own motion, recently adopted amendments to Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.200 (The Record) intended to implement mandatory statewide electronic records on appeal. The Court invites all interested persons to comment on the amendments, which are reproduced in full below, as well as online athttp://www.floridasupremecourt.org/decisions/opinions.shtml. The Court specially requests comments from The Florida Bar’s Appellate Court Rules Committee, the Florida Courts Technology Commission (in consultation with the Appellate Court Technology Committee), the Florida Association of Court Clerks and Comptrollers, and the Florida Court Reporters Association. All comments must be filed with the Court on or before July 13, 2015.

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Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Monday, June 15, 2015

Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Monday, June 15, 2015

Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Monday, June 15, 2015Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!

10 Useful Gmail Labs Features for Lawyers
Gmail is the most widely used web-based email provider, including many companies who, powered by Google, use their domain URLs for professional email addresses. Google continues to roll out improvements to make their email service even better and use Gmail labs as a testing ground for experimental features. Click the gear icon to go your settings, then click on labs to discover more than 20 features you can enable. Here are 10 features that will make your email experience more productive.

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Productivity in Your Browser: Extensions and Add-Ons for Lawyers
Extensions and add-ons increase productivity by adding new features and enhancing the functionality of web browsers and applications. Here are a few that lawyers will find useful. Some are free standing and others work with apps. Some work with only one browser and others work with all the major ones.

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Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Friday, June 12, 2015

weekly review for Law Practice Tips and Florida Insurance Law June 12, 2015

weekly review for Law Practice Tips and Florida Insurance Law June 12, 2015Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!

Social Media Lessons for Law Firms From Law Firms
Last year I attended the second Social Media Marketing for Law Firms Summit in New York City. Much of the focus was on blogging. No surprise there since pioneering blogger and CEO of LexBlog, Kevin O’Keefe, moderated the panel which offered lots of great insight and advice on law firm blogging. At this year’s summit leading law firms shared the lessons learned about how they use social media and content marketing to highlight expertise, build new business and expand relationships with existing clients. This included: how to get buy-in at the firm, establishing a strategy, the return on investment (ROI), and managing the channels. Here are the highlights, and keep in that it’s not a one-size-fits-all strategy.

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Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Monday, June 8, 2015

weekly review for Law Practice Tips and Florida Insurance Law June 8, 2015

weekly review for Law Practice Tips and Florida Insurance Law June 8, 2015Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!

How Lawyers Can Use Evernote to Turn Business Cards Into Contacts With Context
A business card is useless without context. Who gave it you? When? What were the circumstances?

Last year, we published the popular How Lawyers Use Evernote where lawyers shared how they use the note-taking and workspace application. Since then–and through conference seasons–I’ve had a few inquiries on how to use Evernote to store and meaningfully manage business cards. In other words: how to turn them into opportunities for relationships.

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Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Friday, June 5, 2015

Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Friday, June 5, 2015

Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Friday, June 5, 2015Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!

How One Law Firm Went Paperless: An Interview with Andrew Kucera
While putting together the Paperless Law Office E-Book, we thought, who better to learn from than a firm who went through the process? So we interviewed Andrew Kucera who was instrumental in helping move six-person Cuttone & Kucera, PC (now, Cuttone & Associates), a real estate and business law firm in Fresno, California, to a paperless operation.

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Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Friday, May 1, 2015

weekly review for Law Practice Tips and Florida Insurance Law

weekly review for Law Practice Tips and Florida Insurance LawHere are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!

Florida Insurance Law: Effort To Limit 3rd-Party Property Insurance Claims Stalls In Florida
Insurance industry-backed bills aimed at restricting repair contractors’ ability to require homeowners to sign over insurance benefits before repairs can commence likely won’t become law this year, supporters and opponents concede. Read more here… 

Mindfullness: Why Every Lawyer Should Be Practicing Mindfulness (Part I)
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that practicing mindfulness is good for you. It helps to decrease the impact of stress on your body, allows you to manage anxiety better, and lowers blood pressure and a host of stress-related psychosomatic symptoms. The list of what mindfulness can do seems to be growing daily. It increases self-regulation, self-knowledge, as well as self-awareness. (That’s a lot of self-improvement!) Researchers are finding that practicing mindfulness can literally rewire and increase amounts of gray matter in the brain. It appears to impact the parts of the brain responsible for memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. Read more here… 

Mindfullness: Why Every Lawyer Should Be Practicing Mindfulness (Part II)
Continuing the list of why every lawyer should be practicing mindfulness, here are three more reasons. Read more here… 

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