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Defendants Benefit from Our Allegiance to the Courts
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 works, we can explain what to expect to our customers,” A 2nd Chance founder and CEO Daniel Matalon said. “Many of them [...]
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 loved ones, with masks and from a distance. Now, we are at another significant juncture – one year into the most pervasive global pandemic in recent times. It’s been one turn around the sun since COVID-19 arrived in America. More than 500,000 [...]
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 at the end of the day. Concentrating on a tiny square on a small screen for hours at a time produces a special kind of “brain lag” called Zoom Fatigue. To be fair, the name should be “Always-on Fatigue” because that’s what’s [...]
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 scheduled bond; bond set or denied by a judge; bond set or denied by a Superior Court judge during a probable cause hearing; and consent bond – each type can get you out of jail but some forms of bond spring you [...]
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 Melton of the state’s Supreme Court credited the recent surge in Georgia’s COVID cases with the unexpected and indefinite pause, which is expected to last through at least February. He had warned attorneys in early December when trials were restarted after a [...]
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 social channels, a great deal of business, including legal referrals, happens on LinkedIn. Would you be surprised to learn that LinkedIn has 690 million users? If you are like most attorneys, you doubt the online power and connectivity of LinkedIn. Just because [...]
