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Dec 31, 2012

Tech Toolkit: Start the new year with technology planning

For small and midsize businesses, technology purchasing is based on reaction rather than planning. If a laptop breaks or a security breach begins melting the network, then it's time to get shopping.

Dec 28, 2012

Prison dental floss, errant bottle rockets, miffed mistresses — it’s 2012’s memorable suits

The Week magazine has released its list of “America’s 9 craziest lawsuits” for 2012, and as with years past, they provoke quite a few reactions of, “Really?”

Dec 27, 2012

BEV BUTULA: Need a transcript? Start with the source

I was recently asked about possible sources for free TV and radio transcripts or replays. There are a few places you might want to check prior to using a fee-based service.

Dec 26, 2012

FAMILY LAW: Court of Appeals decision creates family law problems

At first blush, a recent Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision doesn’t appear to affect family law cases at all.

Dec 21, 2012

Bringing the Fourth Amendment into the 21st century

The New York Times recently reported that the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a bill “that would strengthen privacy protection for e-mails by requiring law enforcement officials to obtain a warrant from a judge in most cases before gaining access to messages in individual accounts stored electronically.”

Dec 20, 2012

LAWBIZ COACHES CORNER: Selling a practice? Use this checklist

Interest in the sale of law practices continues strong and unabated. This may reflect continued economic stress, the aging of the profession or simply greater desire to look for greener pastures outside the law.

Dec 19, 2012

ON THE DEFENSIVE: Marijuana law should go up in smoke

In November, the voters of Colorado and Washington supported initiatives that legalized marijuana within their states.

Dec 19, 2012

Lemon law lawyer lays an egg

Turns out Vince Megna is himself churning out defective products. Somebody call a lawyer.

Dec 18, 2012

BLAWG LOG: Mazzie on ‘Time for a serious conversation about guns’

No child should have to endure such things. No child. Anywhere.

Dec 18, 2012

LEGAL CENTS: New ABA book offers advice on leading lawyers

Analytical. Skeptical. A high degree of urgency. A preference for autonomy. A lower need for social interaction. Resistant to change. Thin-skinned.

Dec 17, 2012

Editorial: Don’t just sit back and complain

It would be easy to criticize Polk County Judge Jeffrey Anderson for setting a low bail amount for Scott Youngmark less than two weeks before Youngmark allegedly murdered his fiancée, Kari Roberts, on Dec. 1.

Dec 14, 2012

The skinny on iPad mini for attorneys

Lawyers reviewing the latest gadget released by Apple – the junior-sized iPad mini – are focusing on its size, shape, weight and usability, elements of what tech-geeks call its “form factor.”

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