Out-of-the-Box Lawyering

Recent Posts from Out-of-the-Box Lawyering

• Using Facebook, MySpace and Google to collect on judgments

  How about this? The I.R.S. and state tax people are using Facebook and MySpace to collect on back taxes. There are a number of recent articles on the topic, including one from the Wall Street…

• A creative way to use Google street views: Using it to find a cheaper hotel room

  The ABA Techshow was recently held at the Chicago Hilton located at 720 South Michigan Avenue. Even though the ABA got a discount on the normal room rate, it still cost attendees $199 per night. While…

• How to have the Post Office automatically update you on people’s new addresses

  What happens when you send a letter to someone and that person has moved? Your letter will automatically get forwarded for the first 12 months after the service. But you won’t get the person’s new…

• More sites for finding info on jurors, lawyers, and others

  I wrote earlier about using pipl and other sites for finding information about potential jurors and others — including discovering what federal and state political contributions they had made and which parties or candidates received their contributions.  While I…

• Selecting mock juries and focus groups: A very out-of-the-box approach

  The normal approach to selecting members of mock juries and focus groups is to try to obtain a cross-section of the community in which the case is going to be tried. I recently read an…

• How to find information about potential jurors and others — including info about their political contributions

  Do you want to find information about potential jurors and others? Here’s where at no cost you can search multiple sites with one search: Kim Komando (that’s really her name — her site is Komando.com) has listed sites in…

• Here’s an out-of-the-box way for unemployed attorneys to get new clients

  There are now all sorts of articles about how lawyers have lost their positions. Carolyn Elefant has detailed the problem in Legal Blog Watch as has Bruce MacEwen in his Adam Smith, Esq., whom she cited. As they noted,…

• Out-of-the-box uses for Dragon NaturallySpeaking

   All of us – or at least most of us – have heard of Dragon NaturallySpeaking and its use as voice recognition software in law offices.  But there are many more uses for Nuance Corporation’s Dragon!!…

• You can insert videos and sound into PDF documents!!!

  I was reading Ross Kodner’s blog and he described a CLE presentation he had seen where David Ferrell, an attorney, had shown a sample PDF demand letter that had video included in it. Here’s Ross’s accolade:…

• If you’re a lawyer with an iPhone, you need to see the blog iPhone J.D.

  Jeff Richardson, like me a New Orleanian, has a blog that is invaluable for lawyers who are iPhone users. Jeff’s blog is iPhone J.D. — Lawyers Using iPhones, and he includes — with lots of screen shots…