The importance of proofreading, suggestions, Reader Response and Q&A's In a previous column on formatting, an error was inserted into the paragraph on proofing your documents. The subject was how easily we could mistakenly use a homonym. You remember what homonyms are: those words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings, such as hear/here or there/their. The example I used in my column was to/too/two. However,... (156 views)
Blanche Berkowitz: Paralegal, Schell Bray Aycock Abel & Livingston, PLLC, Greensboro, NC Corporate paralegal Blanche Berkowitz practices her profession at Schell Bray Aycock Abel & Livingston, PLLC, in Greensboro, NC—a law firm that specializes in business/corporate law, including real estate and trusts and estates. There, she handles all aspects of business law support to the attorneys and clients in her firm. Berkowitz has been a corporate paralegal for 23... (171 views)
Martin Delonis: President of the Brooklyn Law Student's Death Penalty Project, Brooklyn, NY Martin Delonis, a graduate of Brooklyn Law School, was a student at Fordham University in the Bronx five years ago on the date of September 11. After graduating from Fordham University, he spent a year working for the Capital Defender Office of New York, which cemented his desire to become a lawyer. (22 views)
Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY September 11, 2001, will forever be remembered as the day that changed America. Since the war on terror began, the country's legal system has undergone significant reconstruction to prevent future atrocities. Many new and controversial laws have since been implemented, creating new legal challenges for lawyers. (287 views)
Too much dependencey on electronic documentation in legal cases creates a mess Starting Dec. 1, in-house counsel will have to contend with the new e-discovery procedural rules detailed in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. (33 views)
The Life and Career of Gerry Spence: Author, The Making of a Country Lawyer With courtroom victories against Kerr-McGee, Penthouse, and McDonald's, among many others, Gerry Spence is a small-town attorney at the very top of his game. (4362 views)
Legal Technology: An Inside Look at Accepting Credit Cards as an Attorney—Without Getting Fleeced Accepting credit cards can be a very intimidating option to consider as a sole practitioner or small-firm attorney-if you deal with collecting retainers from your clients. (19 views)
The Life and Career of Dennis Kennedy: Author,DennisKennedy.blog In a legal field bursting with blogs, Dennis Kennedy is probably most well known for his annual Blawggie Awards. A true technology buff, Kennedy is excited to find out what the future of blogging holds. (30 views)
How do I know when it's time to use a recruiter for my next job or if I should search on my own? Working with a legal recruiter is the smartest decision a good attorney can make. Legal recruiters typically operate in the upper echelon of the legal profession; and for people who are suited for their services, legal recruiters are the absolute best career resources. Legal recruiters will identify the best opportunities for you, counsel you on your move, provide you... (166 views)
Training provides the esteem driving today's workers For the past few years, work force development experts have been batting around the phrase ''lifelong learning.'' (2 views)
Charity, and the law for establishing a religion as per the First Amendment George W. Bush took the presidential oath on that January day in 2001, came home from the Hill, and promptly issued Executive Order No. 13,199. Thus he created, overnight, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. (3 views)
New Scrambler's retro look belies a host of modern improvements Because Harley-Davidson's Sportster is considered such a fabled model from motorcycling's past, it's difficult sometimes for people to remember the Sportster was originally a knock-off of the Triumph Bonneville. (41 views)
Jules Verne's epic journey began in Iceland's frozen volcano Harry Hardwigg got to Iceland's Snaefellsnes peninsula almost 150 years before I did. His narrative reports: ''At 6 o'clock in the evening, we reached Budir, a small town picturesquely situated on the shore of the ocean.'' (174 views)
September 2 2006 Legal Blog Roundup Your buzzword for this week, readers, is ''astroturfing.'' You know that fake too-bright green grass called AstroTurf? You know how spontaneous, non-corporate/government sponsored movements are referred to as ''grassroots?'' What do you call it when there's a formal public relations movement meant to simulate grassroots behavior? (9 views)
Cover letter covers more than the resume itself Cover letters have been debated over the years. Sometimes they are tossed away without being read. Sometimes they are the only document that is read. In any case, we at Attorney Resume recommend them for several reasons. (197 views)
Elizabeth Vance: Paralegal, Wyatt Early Harris Wheeler, LLP, High Point, NC Elizabeth Vance comes from a family of law enforcement officers and said that while she was fascinated by the law, she did not want to be in law enforcement and definitely did not want to go to law school. A paralegal career seemed like the perfect blend of behind-the-scenes work and interesting legal issues. She found her current job through a placement agency for legal... (1110 views)
Erika Rivera: President, La Raza Law Student Association, Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA For those of you who are unfamiliar with Santa Clara University School of Law's La Raza Law Student Association, Erika Rivera can inform you. Rivera, who is in her third year at Santa Clara University School of Law, is serving her second year as president of the association. (368 views)
Matthew Wayman: Assistant Director for Law Graduate Employment, Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA Matthew Wayman brings seven years of experience as a transactional attorney to his job as Assistant Director for Law Graduate Employment with Santa Clara University School of Law. Before joining the career services staff at Santa Clara University School of Law in April 2005, Wayman worked as in-house counsel for several Silicon Valley technology companies, including... (122 views)
Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA Santa Clara University School of Law, located in the center of Silicon Valley, CA, has been climbing the ranks as one of the top law schools in the country. The school was ranked 87th among the top-100 law schools in the United States in the U.S. News & World Report 2007 Graduate School Ranking. (1974 views)
Hiring Outside Counsel Corporate Counsel continues its five-year-old tradition. After asking GCs at Fortune 250 companies to name their ''primary'' law firms in four key practice areas, the publication has released its survey results in an August report entitled ''Who Represents America's Biggest Companies.'' (126 views)
Consumer credit counseling agency can help you plan your credit, housing tips, budget and more America's gotten a lot savvier about credit. Now that we can take a free, no-strings-attached gander at our credit reports every year (courtesy of www.annualcreditreport.com), we're more cognizant of the impact bad credit has on our everyday lives. (26 views)
Survival Tips for 1Ls Part 2 Continuing from last week, here are more tips on how to make it through your first year of law school with the least amount of headaches, heartbreaks, and hang-ups. From adopting a pet to joining a student organization, these tried and true stress-busters are sure to make your first year of law school the best that it can be. (169 views)
The Life and Career of Sarah Weddington: Professor, University of Texas at Austin, TX Everyone has heard of Roe vs. Wade; but who exactly was Roe, and who was Wade? Sarah Weddington knows. In fact, as the attorney who represented and won the case on behalf of Roe, Weddington probably knows more about the case than anyone does. (561 views)
Innovative program helps women leave but stay connected In 1993, Deloitte was feeling pretty good about the opportunities it provided for female employees, recognizing that about half of all hires were women. (47 views)
The Case of Providing Shelter to the Homeless and its Adverse Repurcussions The church views its overnight guests as God's children, fallen upon hard times. The city sees them as a bunch of bums who hang around all night and frighten the tourists away. (12 views)
AT&T takes on cable rivals with its Homezone service The much-hyped digital living room in which electronic devices communicate with each other wirelessly has taken one more step toward becoming a reality. (105 views)
Mercedes GL450 SUV a tad too serious to be fun The American-bred sport utility vehicle is a constant frustration to the import imitators.Those brands - the Europeans mostly - tend to take carmaking seriously and want to overthink and overengineer their versions of the SUV. (750 views)
The Smokies' well-known haze won't faze fall-foliage fans If you guessed that Yellowstone is the nation's most-visited national park, you'd be mistaken. Yellowstone was the first and has high name recognition, but the Smokies win the competition. (181 views)
The Journey up the corporate ladder from GC's to C.E.O's The corporate and legal communities received two shocks within the past month: first, when General Counsel Jeffrey Kindler became Pfizer, Inc.'s new CEO, and second, when General Counsel Paul Goldean became Scottish Re's new CEO. (1021 views)
Claim in mail rebates as per Federal Trade Commission During back-to-school shopping season, your newspaper is stuffed with sales circulars promising ''The lowest prices of the season!'' and ''Best prices all year round!'' But many of those bargains aren't in the form of price reductions; instead, they're marked with an asterisk and the eensy-weensy tag-line, ''after mail-in rebate.'' (12 views)