All Good Things Must End? Some Bad News, and Some Good

One of the benefits the Practice Management Assistance Program provides to Alabama State Bar members is the Discount Bookstore. Through an arrangement with ABA Publishing, we have been able to offer a 40% discount on any of the great books ABA Publishing and, particularly, the Law Practice Management Section have to offer, such as [...]

Saving Your Legal Research Results: Some Great How-To Suggestions

By helping Alabama lawyers with searches on Casemaker, the ASB’s free legal research system member benefit, I’ve learned that many lawyers would like to save the results of their searches for use in later, similar matters, but often feel like it’s too much trouble because they don’t have a good system for doing so. [...]

Tax Returns? Fascinating? Actually, Yes.

While tax returns are just a once-a-year headache for most people, for lawyers, particularly those who practice family law, they are often a day-in and day-out reality. So I was fascinated to learn that there is a book which will walk you through the individual 1040 federal tax return, line by line, with an [...]

Another Spam Scam! Watch out for Phony Airline Ticket Confirmations

I have a web mail account that I don’t use for much except for ordering things. This helps to keep most of the spam in one place, away from my real correspondence with friends an family. This morning I checked the account for the first time in a couple of weeks, and the [...]