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I’ve recently switched over to using the iPhone as my primary wireless device. I’m posting this directly to the blog from the iPhone. The photo was taken with the iPhone last weekend at the zoo. That is a baby elephant playing and splashing in the background past my daughter and her good buddy. So far,…

For those of you who are like me and get confused calculating birthdays and age, I’ve found a nifty little age calculator. I’m always second guessing myself on when a minor becomes an adult and how that figures into Statute Of Limitations. In NC, a minor’s statute of limitations does not begin until their 18th…

Now that the legal world is moving toward a “paperless” approach to things, I get some questions about the best ways to convert documents into PDF files. Most states moving to “paperless filing” require documents to be submitted in PDF format. Below are a few suggestions on ways to do this: Easiest: Buy Adobe Acrobat…

Well, it finally happened- I’m officially a published author now (and editor!) The NC Lien Manual is now on the shelves, the one I edited and wrote chapters for and that was published by the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers and Lexis. Before you think that I’m pitching my own product, you should know…

For any of you that have a Treo Smart phone (I have a Treo 650), Google now has a really great program you can download for Goggle maps. I have always accessed the Google Maps or MapQuest by going to the internet function on the phone, but that was slow and you could not really…

Tort Reform is a Great Idea, Until YOU Get Hurt You don’t have to look very far on the Web to find websites devoted to eliminating your right to recover fair and just compensation for the carelessness of another individual. Websites like Overlawyered try to convince everyone that almost every law suit filed is frivolous,…

NC Business Court Decision says Email “Conflicts out” Lawyer NC Lawyers Weekly is reporting a recent business court decision by Judge Tennille in the matter ofChemcraft Holdings Corporation v. Shayba (North Carolina Lawyers Weekly No. 06-15-1115, 10 pages) where the Judge disqualified counsel for a prty due to a conflict of interest arising out of…

I’m in the process of having one of my friends from RTP design and build me a custom computer to handle my office needs. (That’s Research Triangle Park for those of you out of state. Also known as the place that has driven housing prices “inside the beltline” through the roof over the last decade…

As lawyers, we have to always worry about “conflict checks” so that we are not allowing an adverse party to disclose their “secrets” when we may represent the “other side.” The Pre-Emptive Conflict Strike This is a most common problem for family law lawyers, especially in smaller towns. What usually happens is that a couple…

I found an interesting website that acts as an aggregator of links that pertain to law and technology. This website is more about actual Intellectual Property Law and Technology Law, and not so much about the use of technology in law. The sub-catagories provide a pretty simple way to browse article to get the “gist”…