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If you are a lawyer and married to someone in the military, how do you stay licensed with all the moving involved? The Military Spouse JD Network wants to make it possible by dropping bar examination requirements for military spouses, and it is making progress. In February, the ABA decided to support changes in state [...]

Military Spouses Who Are Lawyers Have a Hard Time Practicing Law is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com

The Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 is a document scanner for plowing through piles of documents. It isn’t a personal document scanner like the ScanSnap S1500 or the NeatDesk that is meant to sit on your desk; it is a document scanner for the copy room, to be used by someone whose job is scanning, copying, [...]

Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Scanner Review is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com

Yesterday, I compared the value of law school (cost: $100,000+) to a bar review course (cost: about $3,000). In other words, the purchase price of a 41′ yacht versus less than a month’s salary for a McDonald’s store manager. Today, Bloomberg Law tries to break down the debt numbers and put them in perspective. Putting [...]

Putting Law School Debt in Perspective is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com

Do you really need three years of law school to be a lawyer? There seems to be a general consensus that law school doesn’t really prepare us to practice law. I’m not even convinced it prepares us to pass the bar exam. For that, I think the bar review course I took the summer after [...]

Law School v. a Bar Review Course is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com

An Iowa criminal defense lawyer with a $2,500 minimum fee was suspended for 30 days. After two weeks and only 3.7 hours of work, the state dropped the case when federal authorities filed similar charges. A $2,500 flat fee (or an availability retainer, for that matter) is not necessarily unreasonable, even if it only results [...]

$2,500 Minimum Fee Earns IA Lawyer a 30-Day Suspension is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com

Putting cheap, mediocre forms online is not “disrupting” the legal market. Instead, it serves the same price-conscious, careless or uninformed people that have always bought legal forms from office supply stores and will-drafting software from big box electronics retailers. There is definitely growth, but only because it is a lot easier to buy forms online [...]

Serving the “Middle Market” by Allowing Non-Lawyer Funding & Ownership is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com

Don’t. It’s okay to be inexperienced. It’s not okay to lie about your inexperience. Or fudge. Or avoid the issue. Instead, read Jordan Rushie’s post, Winging It, in which he describes the right way to respond to a client who wants to know how much experience you have, when you don’t have any: Actually, no. [...]

How to Hide Your Inexperience is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com

Toshiba’s mobile monitor is USB-powered so you can plug it into a laptop without worrying about finding an extra power outlet. It’s fine as a display monitor, but not great as a second monitor for productivity. So the question is whether lawyers might find a display monitor useful. Some undoubtedly will, and this is a [...]

Toshiba 14″ USB Mobile LCD Monitor Review is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com

Because Freshbooks and QuickBooks have similar names, people often wonder if they are alternatives. The QuickBooks-Freshbooks difference question just came up in the LAB, in fact. Despite the names and a few overlapping features, Freshbooks and QuickBooks are very different products. Here’s a breakdown of the differences, and when and why you should use each [...]

The Differences Between Freshbooks and QuickBooks is a post from the law firm marketing blog, Lawyerist.com