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Was the Supreme Court's Ruling in Padilla Retroactive or only Prospective? SCOTUS Agrees to Let Us Know.

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:46:50 +0000

Was the Supreme Court's ruling in Padilla v. Kentucky meant to be retroactive or only prospective? This is an important question at the heart of Chaidez v. United States, and the Supreme Court has granted cert in order to answer it.

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Free Legal Technology Training Courses on National Law Day

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:48:04 +0000

Have you made plans on how you will spend Law Day 2012 on May 1? If you don't have any local events you plan to attend, consider getting some free legal technology training online. Affinity Consulting Group's Affinity University is offering complimentary legal training courses for one day only. The free technology courses included in the offer are:

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Can You Get More Work Done By Working Less?

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:11:22 +0000

Lawyers are known for working extremely long hours, sometimes seven days a week. But are they really increasing their productivity by putting in all that extra time? Not according to Geoffrey James in a Time Business article called Stop Working More than 40 Hours a Week.

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Idaho Bar Associations Directory Completed

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:11:42 +0000

Our directory of the state and local bar associations in the State of Idaho is now complete. As with the list for the State of Hawaii, we have combined the state and local groups into one list because there aren't enough groups there to split them into multiple lists.

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Hawaii Bar Associations Directory Completed

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:40:32 +0000

Our directory of the Hawaii Bar Associations is now complete. Because there was such a small number of legal organizations to list for the State of Hawaii, the statewide and local lists have been combined into one list for now.

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Georgia Bar Associations Directories Completed

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:35:28 +0000

Our directories of state and local bar associations in the State of Georgia are now complete. Georgia lawyers can now find groups in their area through the following lists:

Georgia Statewide Bar Associations Directory;
Georgia Local Bar Associations (A-D);
Georgia Local Bar Associations (E-O);
Georgia Local Bar Associations (P-Z).

Did we overlook your group or list something incorrectly? If so, please send me an email to let me know and we'll correct it.

Directory of Georgia Local Bar Associations Added

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:48:15 +0000

In our ongoing quest to create directories of the various national, state, and local bar associations across the country, we are now working on the State of Georgia. In our State Bar Associations Directory you will find a new addition to the Georgia Bar Associations category. We have now added Georgia Local Bar Associations (A-D), with the remaining associations to follow shortly. If you see any information that is incorrect our outdated, or if we have left your group out of our list, please send me an email to let me know so we can correct it.

Will Google Drive Kill Dropbox?

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:28:04 +0000

Readers of this site know that I'm a fan of Dropbox, a great tool for backing up your office files and keeping them synchronized across multiple computers. But today Google announced the long-awaited release of Google Drive, their own online data storage service. From reading about what Google Drive offers, Dropbox may be in trouble.

Google Drive is offering users 5 GB of free storage, whereas Dropbox only gives 2 GB of free storage. Where Dropbox charges $10 per month for 50 GB of storage, Google Drive will only charge $4,99 per month for 100 GB.

I registered to receive a Google Drive account, so once mine is set up I'll post more details on how it compares to Dropbox. I don't yet know whether it is as user-friendly or as easy to use as Dropbox. But my guess is that Dropbox is going to have to start scrambling to offer more features or lower pricing if they want to stay competitive with Google.

To learn more about Dropbox, read my review and our user reviews.

Do criminal pro se defendants do better than those with lawyers?

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:08:56 +0000

A growing number of defendants in the criminal court system seem to want to try to represent themselves on the charges against them. Sometimes this is driven by costs, such as when a person doesn't want to spend the amount of money it costs to hire a good lawyer but isn't poor enough to qualify for a court-appointed lawyer. Other times it arises from a person's belief that they can represent themselves as well or even better than a retained lawyer.

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Improve Productivity Doing One Thing at a Time

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:43:24 +0000

Are you burned out, overwhelmed, or unable to complete your tasks on time? The problem may be that you are dividing your attention between two many things at once.

In an article for Harvard Business Review...

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