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The Legal Landscape One Year into the Pandemic
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

Video Fatigue: It’s Real and It’s Exhausting
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

Why It Can Take Weeks to See a Judge
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

Jury Trials in Georgia Suspended – Again
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

Social Media: Linking In to New Opportunities
If you think social media is just for keeping up with family and friends, you are missing the boat — the business boat. While Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram are the most social of the

Strange, Weird and Just Plain Crazy Crimes
Everyone agrees that 2020 has been a year like no other. As we wind down this pandemic-lockdown-socially distanced-masked year, crooks, it seems, have been just as confused as the rest of us. Consider these actual

How Bail Bonds Work
Once a person is arrested, they must be booked. This process may take as little as forty-five minutes to several hours. Once a judge sets the amount of the bond, the person, also known as

Beware of Alex Smith: Bail Bonds Scam Hits Home
Beware of “Alex Smith.” He will call you offering to bail one of your loved ones out of jail. He will sound official and even say he is with A 2nd Chance Bail Bonds, a

Pardon That Bird
A commemoration of what was believed to be the first shared meal between the English colonists, or Pilgrims, and the Wampanoag people in 1621, Thanksgiving used to mean turkey, stuffing (or dressing), potatoes, cranberries and
Attorneys’ Cloud Technology Enables Long-Term Work From Home
This year’s multiple crises, including a global pandemic, an economic recession and shelter-in-place lockdowns, caused attorneys and law firms large and small to rethink how they conduct business. Long feared security vulnerabilities had kept most