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Happy New Year! Happy (?) New Laws!
Hopefully, if you’re reading this at all today you’re doing so from the warmth and comfort of your home. No one should be at the office on Sunday, particularly when it’s New Years Day. Nevertheless,...
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ASB Job/Source Goes Live
The ASB has just launched the ASB Job/Source, a retooled version of the online classified ad section of the website, to cater more to job seekers and those looking for staff, including support staff....
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$ave More with New Member Benefit Discounts
The Board of Bar Commissioners recently approved four new member benefit programs offering ASB members discounts on several services that will help you – and help you save and make money – in the...
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Casemaker Is Growing Up
Change can sometimes be difficult, but change also brings wonderful new opportunities. Casemaker, the Alabama State Bar’s FREE legal research member benefit, will be upgraded on Monday, March 5th, to...
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Alabama Child Support Calculation App Now Available
Candace Peeples of Shaw, Anderson & Peeples, LLC in Birmingham has just launched a new app which she hopes will be of use to Alabama lawyers who practice domestic relations law, as well as provide...
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New AmicusCuriae Website is the Lawyer’s Friend, Too!
If you’ve ever wished you knew more about how a judge in another circuit likes for things to go in his or her courtroom, you’ll be delighted to learn about AmicusCuriae, a website, currently still in...
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Are You E-Verifying?
Although the Beason-Hammon immigration act was signed into law over a year ago, questions about it’s requirements continue to come up, as evidenced by a call we received from a lawyer this week, so I...
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CLE – Take Your Office Paperless and More!
If you are struggling to develop the skills and procedures needed to implement the recent order mandating e-filing, or if you just want to improve your existing technology skills, this program is for...
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Pick My Own Judge? Really?
If you have questions about private judges and how this new system to help expedite the resolution of certain types of cases will work, this short article by Judy Keegan of the Alabama Center for...
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Casemaker Mobile Apps Now Available
If you’ve been enjoying Casemaker, the free legal research service which is a benefit of Alabama State Bar membership, you’ll be glad to know that apps for your mobile devices are now available....
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Annual Meeting Schedule Available
The Annual Meeting & Legal Expo 2013 is almost here and things will be getting started down at The Grand Hotel in beautiful Point Clear on Wednesday afternoon of next week. Refreshments will be...
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VLP Honors 2013 Pro Bono Award Winners
The Sky Lounge was fragrant with the smell of blackened shrimp and Baldwin County grits and filled to overflowing with lawyers, their families and guests attending the 17th Annual Volunteer Lawyers...
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Legal Expo Prize Winners Announced
Feeling lucky? Check in on the Announcements page to see the names of the Legal Expo door prize winners. If you are one of the winners, please visit the booth of the exhibitor donating the prize to...
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Formal Ethics Opinion on BP Claims Issued
Most of us would like to forget the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, and all of the damage done to the Gulf of Mexico as a result. Unfortunately, the claims process for compensating those who...
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The Deadline is Approaching – Are You Ready?
Regardless of your feelings about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a/k/a Obamacare, its provisions are slowly but surely being implemented and there is an approaching deadline that law...
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E-filing Giving You Fits? We’ve Got Help!
Unfortunately, e-filing is now mandatory and there’s no going back. If you are struggling to develop the skills and procedures needed to implement e-filing in your office, or if you want to improve...
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Free Paperless Office Webinar
We had a sellout crowd last week for our Tech Tuesday Paperless Office and E-filing training program. Steve Best of Affinity Consulting and Jody Stewart and Jason Hodges from the Administrative Office...
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New Phishing Scam Targets IOLTA Account Holders
Several Alabama lawyers have contacted the Alabama Law Foundation regarding an email phishing scam. The lawyers all received email messages from an individual calling himself Chris Cisneros of National...
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Supreme Court Overturns Bayliss
If you regularly practice family law you probably already know that on October 4th the Alabama Supreme Court overturned Ex parte Bayliss, 550 So.2d 986 (1989) which had held that § 30-3-1 of the Code...
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Ten Items or Less?
Wouldn’t it be great if the circuit courts had an express lane that would let you check out quickly if your case didn’t involve a large sum and more witnesses than the cast of characters in Downton...
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