As electronic filing becomes more and more common, more and more lawyers have questions about best practices for creating, storing and retrieving digital documents. If you're one of those lawyers,…

Like many people these days, I depend on Google a lot. It's practically my only search engine, and I've pretty much stopped downloading email at home in favor of a…

All the hoopla in the news right now about the "financial crisis" has everyone, lawyers included, on edge about the safety of their retirement assets. Which raises the question of…

That catchy slogan for one of the credit card companies took on a different meaning earlier this week. A friend of mine had out-of-town company visiting and when he went…

The Casemaker Legal Research System was down for a couple of hours one day last week as a result of extensive power outages in Ohio due to the remnants of…

If you think back, you probably remember the recall of Firestone tires in 2000. But it didn't happen until after a critical mass of anecdotes and hard news regarding serious…

The globalization of business has provided many opportunities for lawyers in Alabama to use an Internet web site to attract potential business clients from around the world. Unfortunately, globalization has…

Most successful people have developed the habit of putting work before play. After all, most of us of a certain age were taught that we had to eat all our…

What makes a great law firm? I'll get to that in a minute, but first I need to finish up some old business. The problem with attempting to "live blog"…

Today started off bright and early with a beautiful, cloud-free sky and a coffee bar, the Alabama Law Foundation trustees' breakfast, a senior lawyers' breakfast and an Inns of Court…