How Lawyers Are Using Social Media for Real Results

The legal profession is not always the most adaptable when it comes to changes in the social or technological world. It was years before lawyers and firms began to move themselves into the realm of television advertising, and once they had they were much more inclined towards marketing for lower-end businesses rather than more prestigious firms. For example, you could see dozens of commercials breaking between daytime talk shows, soap operas and cheery tabloid fare.

But now things have moved more and more towards the digital. The new age is set firmly online, where social media and networking dominate in a way we couldn’t have even dreamed just a decade ago. Changes in how we share information make it a hot place or marketing in any profession, which is why it is a shock that more legal firms have not jumped on board to take advantage of a craze that… Read the rest

4 FINANCE TIPS TO TEACH YOUR CHILDREN

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Teaching our children how to manage their money wisely is one of the greatest things every parent can contribute for their kids’ welfare. Not everyone is capable of doing this since it takes a lot of discipline, patience, and good judgment on how to spend money wisely.

Well, here are four of the best finance tips to teach your children which will definitely help them:
1. Open a Savings Account for your child. The first step to teach your kids how to use their money wisely is to open a savings account for them to teach them the value of saving money for the rainy days. Even if they’re just still kids, you can start teaching them money matters and how important it is to budget their money… Read the rest

Laws for Selling a Car

For the person who is looking to sell used car on their own, it is not as simple as putting a for sale sign in the window and waiting for a buyer to hand over a roll of cash. Depending on the state, there are a number of different requirements and laws that must be followed to properly transfer the car to the new owner. Before I would sell my car , I would definitely research all of the work that needs to be done first.

Regardless of the states, one of the main things that needs to be done is the appropriate transfer of the title. This will usually need to be signed by both parties in the presence of a notary. Some states also require that the odometer reading the recorded at this time. This may be as simple as noting the reading on the title… Read the rest

Is Commercial Real Estate Recovering?

Commercial real estate was hit hard by the property crash that first began from 2005 – 2006 in residential real estate. The Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Price Index (CPPI) shows commercial property values crashed by over 70 percent from the peak of the market in 2007. Obviously, the crash that began in residential properties took time before it started affecting commercial real estate prices. Today, the CPPI is still down by around 3% from August 2010. (1)

Another potential commercial real estate crash may be waiting to occur. In February of 2010, the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP) released a report raising questions about $1.4 trillion in real estate loans coming due between 2010 and 2014. The COP said that the majority of the loans were made at the top of the market in 2007. Since then, the properties attached to these loans have lost 40% of their value, putting them… Read the rest

Car Crash Kills “Jackass” Star

A fiery crash in the early morning hours of Monday, death took Ryan Dunn, the star of the bizarre and popular “Jackass” movies. Another yet to be identified person was also killed with the actor in the deadly inferno of car metal and gas. The police say it occurred near 3am in the Township of West Goshen in Pennsylvania, on New Street and route 322.

The car flew into the woods off the road and plunged into flames that encompassed the Porsche owned by Dunn. There had been some socializing not long before the crash at the Barnaby’s of America bar where he had been drinking and police estimate that the car he was driving when he left the bar was moving at over 100 miles an hour on a 55 mile an hour area.

Film critic Roger Ebert has now tweeted about friends not allowing friends to drive after… Read the rest

Put the Pen Down and No One Will Get Hurt

As a consumer, you may have noticed that when purchasing fast food with your credit card you may not have been required to sign a credit card receipt. Good news, Visa has expanded their CPS/Small Ticket credit card processing program, also known as “No Signature Required” program, to include approximately 98% of all business types. This means there is a very good chance that your business now qualifies for the no signature program and will not have to burden your customers with signing credit card receipts for transactions that are less than $15.00 The expansion is intended to improve card growth through increased card issuing, merchant acceptance and overall program innovation. Imagine a world where you can significantly decrease customer check out times and enhance customer satisfaction at the point of sale. The only rules to qualify are as follows:

• Transaction must be less than $15.00
• Must be

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Drunk Driving in D.C.: Two Decades of Faulty Breath Tests

According to a MyFox DC report back in June 2010, over 300 DWI offenders in D.C. had been convicted based on faulty breathalyzers since 2008. “D.C. Attorney General [at the time] Peter Nickles…notified public defenders and the local trial lawyers association that the Intoxilyzer 5000 had been miscalibrated.”

Police officers and avid drunk drivers alike should be familiar with the Intoxilyzer 5000, the pinnacle of breath-test technology that “has changed the face of DUI law enforcement,” according to the company website.

Alan Suderman at WashingtonCityPaper.com asks, “How come podunk police departments around the country can successfully use breathalyzers and the District can’t? This is not rocket science.” It turns out Suderman is accurate in his assessment: Using the Intoxilyzer 5000 is, in fact, not rocket science. The instrument’s brochure states that it comes “factory-calibrated and does not require periodic calibration adjustments.”… Read the rest

Top 10 Craziest Road Laws in the World

There are hundreds of road laws across the globe that are often overlooked and therefore forgotten about. From the obvious to the downright ridiculous, it beggars belief as to where these laws stemmed from, and what the crackpot authorities were thinking at the time they penned such rules to abide by.

Alabama

The deep south of America is famous for many things – BBQ sauce, segregation during the last century and hillbillies, but they’re just the stereotypes. In truth, Alabama has some very interesting road laws. First off, it is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded. Topping that, however, has to be the fact that it is legal to drive down the wrong way of a one way road if you have a lantern attached to the front of your car.

California

Another U.S. state, and another insane law that could do with a bit of a 21st century… Read the rest

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