Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Monday, September 14, 2015

Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Monday, September 14, 2015

Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Monday, September 14, 2015Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!

Playing Politics with our Court System, a really bad idea.
A ruling this week by a Kansas judge put the courts on a collision course with the state legislature and raised the specter of a shutdown of courthouses statewide.
The confrontation stems from budget legislation passed by the Republican-controlled legislature in June containing something akin to a self-destruct button. The provision said that if a Kansas court were to strike down a 2014 law concerning the selection of chief judges, funding for the courts would be “declared null and void.”
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Law Practice Management: Do Not Compete on Price or you will lose
Are you being continually forced to compete for clients based on price? If so, then you need to be aware of what is at the root of this problem: chasing the wrong prospects is the basis of all pricing problems.
Casting a wide net for clients without applying any targeting criteria is dangerous because sometimes it works. The clients you get by doing this are inevitably those that will pound you on price and beat up on your staff as well.
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Law Practice Tips: Fixing Your Bio on Your Webpage
If a client comes to your website homepage, once they confirm that they have in fact come to a lawyer’s website, the first thing they want to know is who they will be working with.
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Florida Legal Updates: Taxi Drivers sue Florida regarding Uber
The spat between taxi companies and Uber-style ride services, already divisive in three counties, got uglier this week.
Taxi firms in Tallahassee and Broward County sued the state, alleging its agencies aren’t requiring Uber and competitor Lyft to prove the way they calculate trip distances, and charges, is accurate, the News Service of Florida reports.
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Florida Fraud Law: Wire Transfer Scams
n May, the North Carolina State Bar and Lawyers Mutual warned about fraudulent activity related to wired funds in real estate transactions. The scam described in those alerts involved communications from a purported seller or realtor asking the attorney to modify the way closing proceeds should be delivered – either changing from a check to a wire, or changing the wire instructions from one bank account to another. In fact, a scammer had gained access to the email account of one of the parties to the transaction. When the lawyer follows the false instructions, funds are delivered to the scammer’s bank account and cannot be retrieved.
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Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Monday, August 17, 2015

Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Monday, August 17, 2015

Weekly Review for Miami Lawyer and Florida Legal News for Monday, August 17, 2015Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week related to law practice management, law technology, and legal marketing. Enjoy!

Legal Practice Tips: Handling the infuriating email
When you’re really angry, sometimes it’s helpful to vent your anger (but do it in a constructive way). Start a new email — making sure to leave the “To” box blank and vent away. Say exactly what you think about the opposing counsel, her client, or whoever you’re pissed off at. Give yourself at least a 24-hour cooling period, go back, and delete the email. (NEVER hit Reply and draft a vent email since you may accidentally send it.)

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Florida Insurance News: Drones being used to spot insurance fraud
Private investigator Paul Colbert have been chasing workers compensation fraud suspects for years the old fashioned way—hours, days and sometimes weeks of stakeouts by his team of undercover sleuths. Now, Colbert’s discovered a new way to play the gotcha game. He’s letting technology do the work with remote robotic cameras and sometimes even drones.

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Florida Law News: Florida lawyers react to reciprocity discussions
Here are some of the comments, pro and con, the Bar has received on the issue of allowing admission by motion in Florida, for those who meet certain conditions, for states that provide the same option for Florida Bar members.

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Florida Legal News: Broward County to revisit Uber ban
Commissioners will now vote at an upcoming meeting to set a public hearing date, then hold a public hearing in September to finalize the changes.

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FL Legal News: Reciprocity admissions for foreign lawyers is under fire despite national trends permitting the same
The newly installed president of the Florida Bar is walking back his suggestion that the state should make it easier for out-of-state lawyers to practice in Florida.

Bar president Ramón Abadin clarified his position after the idea of loosening Florida’s bar admission rules provoked a heated and divided reaction from lawyers in Florida, some of whom fear such a shift would flood the state with out-of-state lawyers and undermine their business.

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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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