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Marketing, sales and overall practice development issues rank on the top 10 list of practice-management concerns among most legal practitioners today. Why is it that the legal profession continues to fall short of the target when it comes to “professionalizing” ...

BlackBerry users breathed a sigh of relief last week when U.S. District Court Judge James Spencer did not order a shutdown of the popular e-mail service. A patent-holding company, NTP, claims that the Blackberry system uses technology that infringes upon ...

There is a difference between being religious and being spiritual. Essentially, it is this: Being religious often requires one to follow the followers; being spiritual, on the other hand, frees one to follow the original message. I wonder how much ...

Hospitals, physicians, ambulance companies, and other health care providers are often called upon to treat people before the provider is able to learn much information about the individuals. Providers often learn, once the appropriate care has been given, that the ...

The next time someone asks me why I spend so much time at the office I’m going to have a really good answer: It’s safer there. According to the National Safety Council, workplace death rates have fallen 17 percent since ...

How do you spend your lunch hour at work? More and more employers are expanding employee benefits by offering their employees opportunities during their lunch hour to meet the needs of the whole person. As employers address diversity issues with ...

We are continuing to talk about the last area of the five areas that make up every business in the world, this fifth area is “collecting.” As you will remember, the other four areas that make up every business in ...

We all remember horror stories of that proverbial attorney who inadvertently waived attorney-client privilege by discussing a client matter on an elevator, plane, train or bus. Now, thanks to the explosion of electronic communication, an attorney no longer has to ...

Gina was in trouble. She had a huge brief to write, which was due in two days, and she hadn’t even started. Then there were the e-mails she had not yet responded to plus numerous phone calls. She had, however, ...

Responsibilities for members of corporate audit committees are increasing as a result of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and a series of executive management fraud cases totaling billions of dollars in losses. I recently attended an American Institute of Certified Public Accountants ...

The conflict continues between NTP, Inc. and the BlackBerry maker Research In Motion as the threat of a court-ordered shutdown of the BlackBerry e-mail service is ever looming. NTP owns multiple U.S. Patents relating to electronic mail systems that wirelessly ...