Being on the clock – it’s a term that lawyers know all well. For decades, attorneys have maintained that legal work is too unpredictable to price on a project basis. That’s why the by-the-hour billing structure prevails. However, clients have called the billable hour services scheme everything from “needlessly punitive” to “inefficient.” In some cases, […]
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If you didn’t learn much about digital marketing in law school, you are not alone. They didn’t teach it in business or medical schools either. Savvy attorneys are digging in to tap into the power of digital to grow their firms because it’s the most cost-efficient way to do so. Marketing done well answers three
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COVID-19 did more than popularize new phrases such as social distancing, universal masking and WFM (work from home). It’s not a stretch to say that COVID-19 revolutionized where attorneys work. With the pandemic risk beginning to wane, some firms are returning full force to their existing offices, others are scaling back on space as lawyers
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April 29 is the Nationwide Day of Second Chances which is part of Second Chance® Month, a special observance to call attention to the “second prison” that those with a criminal record often face. While there is no federal data pinpointing the number of Americans who have a criminal record, estimates put the number at
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When you’re in jail, the bail bond company you choose matters. While the “nuts and bolts” of being arrested and jailed are the same in Cobb County, DeKalb County, Fulton County and Gwinnett County, how a jail and its systems functions can be very different. “Because we know, in detail, how each county’s judicial system
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In the late 1990s, when Daniel Matalon was a teenager, he began a drug habit that could have destroyed his life. Instead, after a succession of failed treatment attempts, he found a recovery center that worked—and in the process discovered his entrepreneurial spirit. That spirit, along with business mentoring from a family friend, enabled Matalon
Most years are filled with celebrations – birthdays, holidays, anniversaries and other milestone events. For the last year, we’ve had to come up with new ways to mark these milestones – without traditional celebrations, without loved ones, with masks and from a distance. Now, we are at another significant juncture – one year into the
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With approximately 40 percent of the workforce still operating from home, reliance on video conferencing is essential for many professionals. Our calendars include hours of back-to-back video meetings and we wonder why we are exhausted at the end of the day. Concentrating on a tiny square on a small screen for hours at a time
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By Jesse Fellabaum Most people who are arrested want to get out of jail as quickly as possible. However, the different types of bond that can make your release happen can be confusing. Pre-issued or scheduled bond; bond set or denied by a judge; bond set or denied by a Superior Court judge during a
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If your clients were looking forward to putting their legal issues behind them with post-New Year’s jury trials, you’ll need to break it to them that trials have been suspended – again. Chief Justice Harold Melton of the state’s Supreme Court credited the recent surge in Georgia’s COVID cases with the unexpected and indefinite pause,
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