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The Lenovo IdeaCentre Q180 is a small, beautiful HTPC (home theater PC) that looks perfect sitting next to your television. That is, unfortunately, all it is good for. The Q180 is poorly constructed, under-powered, and a huge disappointment. Don’t buy it. A few years ago, I plugged an old Windows PC into our television, and [...]
Review: Lenovo IdeaCentre Q180 Home Theater PC is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has started looking into regulating non-bank financial industries now that it has a chief. For starters, it is looking at debt collectors and credit reporting agencies. Says CFPB chief Richard Cordray, “Our proposed rule would mean that those debt collectors and credit reporting agencies that qualify as larger participants are [...]
CFPB Plans to Regulate Debt Collectors & Credit Reporting Agencies is a post from Caveat Emptor
Payday lending traditionally happens in seedy storefronts, often in low-income neighborhoods and around military bases. Not any more! Eager to get in on the next big subprime lending bubble before it bursts, big banks are brushing up on their loan shark chops and opening payday lending divisions. So what’s the problem, here? Well, payday loans [...]
Big Banks Jump on the Payday Loan Train is a post from Caveat Emptor
Scott Greenfield starting writing Simple Justice only a month after Lawyerist’s first post (I think there were earlier posts I deleted, but the archive is all I have to go on), so we’ve been blogging for about the same length of time. He never had many good things to say about Lawyerist, but Simple Justice [...]
Scott Greenfield Shutters Simple Justice is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com
Lawyers are egregious when it comes to mixing up which and that—probably because the former sounds more lawyer-y. But most could use a good refresher on whether and if, too. And nor and farther v. further and … well, just read this. (Hat tip to Lifehacker.) 20 Grammar Mistakes You Should Stop Making is a [...]
20 Grammar Mistakes You Should Stop Making is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com
Today, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton vetoed a package of tort-reform bills passed by the state legislature earlier this week. I was particularly happy to see his reasons for vetoing SF 429, which would have rendered many consumer and civil rights statutes effectively unenforceable in Minnesota. Here’s a choice excerpt from Governor Dayton’s veto letter for [...]
Governor Dayton Vetoes Misguided “Tort Reform” Bills is a post from Caveat Emptor
The Doxie Go is one of the best gadgets I have reviewed (despite the fact that I have no clear need for one), and it just got exponentially better with the addition of Eye-Fi for wireless file transfer. I show you exactly what that means in the video above, but here’s the gist: You run [...]
Review: Doxie Go with Eye-Fi is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com
Across the country, legislators (mostly Republicans) are pushing for so-called “voter ID” laws that would require every voter to present a photo ID before casting his or her vote. This requirement is ostensibly meant to reduce voting fraud. In fact, it would do no such thing. Nearly all reports of voter fraud turn out to [...]
Voter ID Won’t Prevent Fraud, but Will Prevent Votes is a post from Caveat Emptor
I’ve been following the progress of several Minnesota “tort reform” measures. I put that in quotation marks because most of the bills in question don’t just reform the law of tort; they also eviscerate a raft of consumer laws, robbing consumers of important protections. These are laws designed to prevent fraud, harassment, and abuse. If [...]
Minnesota Legislature Passes Several “Tort Reform” Measures is a post from Caveat Emptor
The latest Google Docs update goes a long way towards making Google Docs a viable alternative to desktop software, at least for the adventurous. Until now, my primary gripe about Google Docs has been the need to custom format everything. Now, you can set custom paragraph styles, which makes formatting much easier. I’d like to [...]
Google Docs Adds Custom Styles! is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com