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Rodrigo González Fernández y un grupo de egresados de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad la Republica en Chile ha decidido poner al alcance de todo el mundo de la profesion legal importantes materias en Ingles para ir practicando el trabajo en materia de Tratados internacionales y que nuestra profesión estará en primera linea. Invitamos a todos a opinar, debatir, participar activamente.Es el primer blog legal en inglés de latinoamerica.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Automotive Franchising Opportunity Express Oil Change and Service Center Certified A World-Class Franchise

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Automotive Franchising Opportunity Express Oil Change and Service Center Certified A World-Class Franchise

Automotive franchise Express Oil Change and Service Center has received World-Class Franchise® certification from the Franchise Research Institute® and FranSurvey®.

The recognition comes after an independent survey conducted by the Franchise Research Institute of which 75.8 percent of Express Oil Change and Service Center automotive franchise owners participated. The survey was designed to determine the level of franchisee satisfaction within the Express Oil Change and Service Center franchise system.

"For the past seven years Express Oil Change and Service Center has turned to the Institute to conduct annual surveys of their franchisees to obtain honest feedback about their franchise system," said Jeff Johnson, founder and CEO of Franchise Research Institute. "The company understands that using unbiased, confidential, third-party research is the best way to judge what is working well and what needs to be improved for its franchisees."

The survey asked Express Oil Change and Service Center franchise owners to rate their franchisor through a series of questions in categories such as overall growth potential, quality, support and communication.

Among the most notable responses received from Express Oil Change and Service Center franchisees:

96 percent of franchisees gave a positive rating to the overall quality of the Express Oil Change and Service Center franchise system

96 percent of franchisees stated they would recommend the Express Oil Change and Service Center franchise to a prospective franchisee

96 percent of franchisees agreed with the statement, "My franchisor and I are committed to a long positive, long term relationship"

100 percent gave a positive grade to Express Oil Change and Service Center's initial training

It takes a very strong franchise training and support program to obtain this high level of satisfaction," said Johnson.

Donald Larose, Senior Vice President Of Franchise Development for Express Oil Change and Service Center, agrees with Johnson that the results are exceptional and reinforce that the decisions made at the corporate level are helping franchisees build strong businesses.

Birmingham-based Express Oil Change & Service Center is a recognized leader in the quick-lube and automotive service industry and the largest independent quick-lube chain in the Southeast with both corporate and franchise-owned locations. Express Oil Change has more than 170 locations in ten states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas. More than 100 locations are franchise-owned. Click here for ore information on Express Oil Change and Service Center franchise opportunities.

The Franchise Research Institute has certified the following World-Class Franchises during the past year:

Alphagraphics

Auntie Anne's

BrightStar

City Wide

CMIT Solutions

ComForCare Senior Services

Comfort Keepers

Compound Profit

Express Employment Professionals

Fibrenew

The Goddard School

Great Harvest Bread

The Interface Financial Group

Liquid Capital

Miracle-Ear

Money Mailer

Mosquito Squad

Pop-A-Lock

ReBath Corporation

Speedpro Imaging

Spherion

Spring-Green

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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

FRANQUICIAS Civil Servants Well Placed to Become Successful Franchisees

Civil Servants Well Placed to Become Successful Franchisees

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November 24, 2010 // Franchising.com // Civil Servants are well placed to become successful franchisees, according to leading greeting card publisher and franchisor, Card Connection.

"Despite the downturn, the franchise industry has seen continued growth and in the UK the sector is now estimated to be worth more than £11 billion," explains Andrew Cutler, sales and franchise director of Card Connection. "However, one of the main challenges facing franchise companies today is recruiting quality franchisees. We believe civil servants could be ideally placed to help fulfil this need. Management skills combined with the experience to interact with a diverse group of stakeholders and an ability to get the job done within boundaries of a public sector environment will be valuable when it comes to running a serious franchise operation.

"With many government departments facing cuts, Civil Servants may be re-evaluating their career options," continues Cutler. "For those looking at starting their own business, franchising is worthy of consideration as many provide the opportunity to earn an income from day one. In addition, marketing and training is provided, giving the flexibility of self employment with the support of an established company in the background, which therefore reduces the risk of start-up significantly.

"The recent increase in the availability of management franchises also now offers an exiting opportunity for ex-Civil Servants," continues Cutler. "As well as the chance to take advantage of corporate experience putting skills such as delegation, people management, planning, budgeting organisation, time management, communication, customer-facing and negotiation skills into play, larger management franchises take advantage of economies of scale and franchisees can capitalise on exponential profit margins as the business grows."

Card Connection has limited UK vacancies for those who are keen to run an expanding business. Successful candidates would ideally have some management experience as, once established, they would be expected to employ a small team, operate a warehouse and have several liveried vans on the road.

Because the franchise networks in the UK and Ireland are complete, the available opportunities now consist of acquiring an already-established territory from an existing franchisee. These vary in price according to their level of development, but start at £20,000 (+ stock) with earnings potential in excess of £50,000 per annum. For further information and for a list of territories for sale see: www.card-connection.co.uk

About Card Connection

Card Connection is one of the UK's most successful card publishers and is the market leader in the franchised distribution of greeting cards.

The company was established in 1992 and became a Full Member of the British Franchise Association in 1995. It now distributes greeting cards to around 15,000 outlets through its network of 85 franchisees.

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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Make Meetings Work: Fight the PowerPoint

11:13 AM Monday October 25, 2010
by Robert C. Pozen and Justin Fox | Comments ( 17)

PowerPoint overload! Hundred-twenty-minute snoozefests! Inconclusive conclusions! We all know how meetings can go wrong. In this fifth in a series of posts on personal productivity, Bob Pozen, chairman emeritus of MFS Investment Management and senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, tells HBR's Justin Fox how to structure meetings that don't waste anybody's time.

JF: What are your rules for meetings?

First, almost every meeting can be completed in one hour or at most 90 minutes. At 90 minutes, people turn off — they get tired and they stop paying attention. If you try to extend a meeting beyond 90 minutes, the diminishing returns are staggering.

Second, you should have meeting materials delivered the day before or the night before by email. All materials should have a one-page executive summary, and the assumption should be that everyone has read at least the summary before the meeting starts.

There are so many meetings at which the presenters just slog through 20 or 30 PowerPoint slides. But they've already sent the material in advance to the participants so this is a terrible waste of time. In my view, the presenter should give a five or 10 minute introduction to set the stage and tee up the key questions, and leave the rest of the time for discussion and formulation of an action plan.

JF: If somebody comes with a PowerPoint presentation, do you just say: "Look, you already gave me those slides, so I don't want to see these PowerPoints?"

Usually, I let them go on for a little while to see if this is just an introduction. But if they start to drone on, I would say, "Look, you've already given us this material, which we've all read. And there's some really excellent analysis in this material. So let's see if you can focus us on the key points we need to discuss and decide upon."

JF: What's your strategy in structuring a meeting?

There are two typical styles for leading meetings, both of which are problematic. One is the very open leader who says, "OK, let's have everyone's ideas about what we should do." But that leader has not given any structure to the conversation, so the participants can waste a lot of time. The other sort of leader is authoritarian. He or she says: "This is my view about where this project should head. And here are the steps I believe we need to take." Then the participants are likely to be afraid to say that this whole plan makes no sense.

I take a third approach, which could be called the rebuttable presumption. It is designed to focus the discussion and encourage debate. I might say, "Here is the area where we really need to do something. But it is a difficult area and there are several ways to address the problems. Now this is my tentative view of the path we should take, but I could be wrong. I want you to feel free to disagree and offer alternatives." And then you have to be willing actually to discard or modify your plan if someone comes up with a better one.

If someone comes up with a truly new idea in a meeting, I embrace it enthusiastically. How many times do you hear a totally innovative idea? If you embrace new ideas, you will attract creative people to work for you because they see that you really value innovative contributions.

JF: Do you have a particular way of closing meetings?

At the end of a meeting, I will always ask, "Where are we going to go from here? What are the to-do's and who's going to do them and when will they be delivered?" I want the meeting participants to agree on a set of deliverables and to set their own timetable. Then they will have an ownership interest in the follow up, rather than just going along with my directions. And they often select a more aggressive timetable than I would have the nerve to suggest.

Update: Pozen responds to a question about conference calls in the comments below.

The previous posts in this series were on daily routine, speed reading, speed writing, and prioritization.

More on: Decision making, Managing people, Presentations

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Cómo preparar el mejor café

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Cómo preparar el mejor café

Por: Tomás García

Si eres de quienes disfrutan una buena taza de café, entonces sabes que esta bebida caliente acompaña bien cualquier actividad. Ya sea que estés navegando en Internet, leyendo un libro o trabajando, siempre es un buen momento para tomar café. Es por eso que decidimos hacer una guía sobre la mejor manera de hacer un café, siguiendo unos pasos simples y utilizando granos de café, un molinillo y una prensa francesa, también conocida como cafetera de pistón.

Probablemente te estés preguntando, qué hace una guía para hacer café en un sitio dedicado a la tecnología. Pues es simple: no hay nada mejor que sentarse en el ordenador con una deliciosa taza de buen café. Y nuestro objetivo es que tú consigas esa misma experiencia de la manera más simple y económica posible, ya sea para trabajar o simplemente navegar por Internet. Porque mientras que hacer café con granos ya molidos en una cafetera de filtro está bien, puedes sacar mucho mejor sabor de una manera más veloz y sin gastar mucho más dinero. Está más que claro que esta nota apunta a quienes buscan invertir un poco más, a favor de un mucho mejor café.

De esta manera, a continuación explicaremos cómo hacer una excelente taza de café utilizando café en granos, un molinillo eléctrico y una prensa francesa. Luego también explicaremos cómo hacer leche con espuma en la misma prensa francesa, en caso de que tomes el tuyo con leche. Lo bueno de este método, es que aunque no tengas las herramientas necesarias, como el molinillo o la prensa francesa, pueden conseguirse por un precio muy económico en cualquier tienda del mundo.

Café en granos, un molinillo y una prensa francesa es lo único que necesitas.

Introducción al Café

Ahora bien, si comenzamos desde el principio, debemos decir que el café por lo general se consigue de dos plantas diferentes: Robusta y Arabica. Mientras que la primera tiene un sabor más amargo y mayor nivel de cafeína, la Arabica tiene un sabor más liviano y menos cafeína. Es por eso que, por lo general, la Robusta se utiliza para el café envasado. Esta información es importante más que nada porque cuando estés por comprar los granos, saber con qué planta se hizo te ayudará a saber cómo será el resultado final.

Los granos conservan el sabor y aroma y garantizan un mejor café.

Granos de Café

La razón por la que se usan granos de café sin moler, es porque al momento que se muelen comienzan a perder el sabor y el aroma, de modo que aquella bolsa que tienes guardada en tu alacena está descomponiéndose cada vez más rápido. Lo más recomendable es comprar una buena mezcla de granos de café, guardarlos en un recipiente cerrado donde no estén en contacto con la luz o el aire y, si se quiere acelerar el proceso, tener ya molido aquello que se usará en la semana, guardando el resto en un lugar oscuro y fresco. Ahora bien, ¿qué café comprar? Esto es algo que habrá que probar por uno mismo, porque cada país tiene el suyo. Nuestra recomendación son granos sueltos y no alguna marca popular de café envasado en granos.

Los granos en el viejo y confiable molinillo eléctrico. Puedes usar uno manual si quieres.

Molido de los granos

A la hora de moler granos de café se necesita un molinillo, que puede ser manual o eléctrico. Algunos creen que el manual es más adecuado porque te permite tener mejor control sobre el tamaño de los granos, pero en mi experiencia, ambos funcionan igual de bien. Es muy importante conseguir que los granos sean grandes e uniformes, ya que si son muy pequeños pueden entregar menos sabor y filtrarse a la hora de presionar el émbolo de la prensa francesa.

Los granos deben ser uniformes.

Temperatura del agua

La mejor temperatura del agua para hacer café es entre 90 grados y 96 grados centígrados, es decir justo antes del punto de ebullición. Pero si no tienes manera medir la temperatura, que es lo más probable, lo mejor que puedes hacer es hervirla y luego dejarla estar por 10 o 15 segundos, para que la temperatura disminuya hasta el nivel deseado. También se recomienda mojar con agua tibia la prensa francesa, ya que dejar caer agua casi hirviendo en un recipiente de cristal o vidrio no es lo más recomendable.

Si la prensa se empaña cuando viertes el agua, es una buena señal (siempre y cuando no explote).

La Prensa Francesa

¿Por qué usar una prensa francesa para hacer café? Como siempre, todo se trata de gustos, pero la prensa francesa es la opción más económica que a la vez puede hacer el mejor café. Por lo general se utiliza una cafetera tradicional con filtros, pero los filtros mismos le quitan a los granos muchas de las propiedades que le brindan el sabor. Además, generalmente trata con temperaturas más bajas de las recomendadas para hacer un buen café. Y ni hablar de la diferencia de precio, ya que puedes conseguir una prensa francesa por mucho menos de lo que pagas por una cafetera tradicional de buena calidad.

La prensa francesa es económica y puede extraer mucho sabor de los granos de café.

Preparación

Hablar sobre cantidades por agua es muy relativo, porque depende de cómo le guste el café a cada uno y el tipo de café que se utilice. La mejor manera de saber es probar y ver qué tal sale la primera vez, para luego perfeccionar la técnica. Lo ideal serían cuatro cucharadas de café cada 220 centímetros cúbicos de agua. Pero como dijimos, comienza ahí y experimenta con las medidas para obtener el café que mejor le guste a tu paladar. Primero coloca el café en la prensa, luego vierte el agua y revuelve por unos segundos con una cuchara no metálica. Ahora que tienes todos los elementos en su lugar, colócale la tapa, sumerge la prensa medio centímetro sobre el café y, déjalo estar, porque viene la parte más importante.

Maceración

Este es el paso más simple y más importante de hacer un buen café con prensa francesa. Lo que debes hacer es dejarlo estar por 4 minutos de reloj, para que el agua libere el sabor de los granos de café. Ten en cuenta que mientras más tiempo lo dejes, más fuerte saldrá el café, de modo que si por lo general lo tomas liviano, tal vez deberías esperar entre tres minutos y tres y medio. Una vez que el tiempo haya pasado, baja el embolo de manera firme y sin torceduras, ya que podría dejar pasar alguno de los granos de café.

Luego de mezclar el agua y los granos, deja el café estar por 4 minutos.

Leche con espuma

El paso final es tan solo para quienes quieran tomar su café con leche y espuma. Y la única manera de lograr una espuma consistente es con leche hirviendo. Primero debes pasar lo que sobró de café en un termo y limpiar la prensa francesa. Luego, llena una taza de leche y hiérvela, tratando de no quemarte en el proceso. Acto seguido, vierte el contenido en la prensa francesa limpia. Es importante no llenarla ya que con la espuma el nivel de líquido aumentará considerablemente. Una vez que la leche esté dentro y humeante, solo coloca el émbolo y sube y bájalo hasta conseguir espuma. Lo mejor es subir el émbolo sobre la superficie de la leche para obtener la mejor espuma. Entre 10 y 15 repeticiones debería ser suficiente.

Con 10 repeticiones la leche queda así.

Como dijimos varias veces a lo largo de la nota, la mejor manera de sacar un café delicioso es experimentando con los distintos tipos y tamaños de granos y cantidades de café y agua, pero esta es una guía para tener en claro la idea básica de cómo sacar lo mejor de los granos de café y la prensa francesa, una herramienta perfecta para hacer entre una y tres tazas de café en menos de 10 minutos. Nuestra recomendación final sería que luego de perfeccionar la técnica, compres los granos de café más exóticos que veas, porque podrás sacar los mejores sabores de cada uno de ellos.

Resultado Final

¡A disfrutar!

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

ABOGADOS, ATENCION ESTUDIOS JURIDICOS: Diez pasos para ser percibido por el mercado

Diez pasos para ser percibido por el mercado

Alessandra Machado Gonçalves & Marco Antonio P. Gonçalves

Publicado na edição n° 39 da revista
Marcasur (outubro-dezembro de 2010)

1. Tener un enfoque de negocios. Usted no puede tomar ninguna acción en términos de marketing sin tener un foco.

2. Escribir artículos. Escribir es una habilidad esencial para cualquier abogado. Hacerlo sin jerga legal con el fin de ser entendido por el lector.

3. Mantener un blog. El punto es que usted debe escribir con cierta regularidad y puede ser una buena idea iniciar un blog. Es una buena manera de iniciar conversaciones con el mercado.

4. Hacer presentaciones. ¡Decir que es tímido no vale de excusa! Hablar en público, a partir de un objetivo y desprovisto de jerga legal, es una gran manera de ser percibido por el mercado como una autoridad en el tema que eligió. Se dice que la palabra hablada crea una percepción de conocimiento entre el público mucho mayor que la palabra escrita.

5. Hacer presentaciones a través de Internet. Luego ir a hablar a través de Internet. Usted puede promover conferencias con diapositivas, vídeo, audio y chat y además, interactuar con los participantes. Por ejemplo: a un grupo selectos de clientes.

6. Grabar podcasts y videocasts. Cualquier persona en posesión de un ordenador con webcam y micrófono, o incluso un teléfono celular puede grabar podcasts (sólo audio) o información vodcasts (vídeo). Los podcasts están disponibles en el sitio de su oficina o idealmente, en su blog. Lo mismo ocurre con los videos y corto, puede ser alojado en YouTube o en otro sitio en el género. Ejemplo: Registrar y difundir videos cortos respondiendo a preguntas comunes sobre la ley del consumidor dirigida a él mismo de los consumidores.

7. Presencia en redes sociales de Internet. Registrarse y participar en alguna red profesional y social.

8. Presencia en los medios de comunicación. La idea es que usted aparece en las noticias como un abogado que referente en un tema específico. Esto genera una gran cantidad de credibilidad en el mercado y es material para que usted pueda proporcionar a sus clientes actuales y potenciales.

9. Práctica regular de contactos. Conocer gente nueva y entablar relaciones con ellos es obligatorio. Estar en contacto.

10. Enfoque obsesivo con el cliente. Nada de lo que se ha dicho antes tiene ningún valor si no se realiza con enfoque en el cliente.

Los autores. Son brasileños. Alessandra es socia ejecutiva de la consultoria Gonçalves & Gonçalves Marketing Jurídico y especialista en marketing y desarrollo de negocios para abogados corporativos. Marco Antonio es administrador de empresas y está especializado en marketing juridico y desarrollo empresarial para abogados de firmas corporativas. Junto com Silvia Hodges (Italia) elaboró la primera investigación sobre la situación del marketing legan en América Latina, patrocinado por la Legal Marketing Association (EUA) y publicada en la edición 30 de Marcasur en el año 2008.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Abogados chilenos dictan seminario sobre manejo de reclamos catastrófico en Londres

Con un panel de distinguidos especialistas extranjeros en el campo del Derecho Marítimo y un enfoque centrado en el manejo de reclamos catastróficos, se realiza este martes el seminario "Dealing with big casualties in foreign jurisdictions" en el Trinity House de Londres, donde participarán como relatores abogados chilenos del estudio Larraín, Rozas, Lackington, Rencoret & Urzúa, L&R Abogados.
La actividad pretende repetir el éxito alcanzado en sus versiones anteriores y continuar consolidándose como uno de los principales foros de esta disciplina a nivel internacional.
Los contenidos que se abordarán en el seminario han generado gran interés entre los profesionales del sector, ya que permitirán analizar casos como el ocurrido recientemente en el Golfo de México tras la explosión de la plataforma Deepwater Horizon de la compañía British Petroleum (BP), y su impacto en la práctica de abogados marítimos, controladores de reclamos, aseguradores, operadores y todos los involucrados en el negocio naviero.
En esta oportunidad, el programa se dividirá en tres sesiones que abarcarán temas de interés común, basándose principalmente en el manejo de grandes catástrofes mundiales e incluyendo diferentes tópicos, como seguros, investigación, limitación y conflictos de leyes, aplicándolos además a experiencias prácticas que se relacionan con la actividad marítima.
Expositores internacionales
Además de la participación de los chilenos, el evento cuenta con el auspicio de importantes firmas legales de diversos países.
Asistirán abogados de Argentina, Brasil, Canadá, Dinamarca, Francia, Alemania, Italia, Japón, España, Estados Unidos y Chile, entre otros, quienes participarán como relatores en esta actividad, que espera congregar a una audiencia compuesta por profesionales provenientes de varios continentes y especialidades vinculadas a la industria naviera.
Por parte de L&R Abogados, expondrá Ricardo Rozas, socio que lidera el equipo naviero y de seguros / reaseguros de la firma. Al respecto, indicó que "estamos muy contentos por la respuesta al seminario. Adelantamos una gran concurrencia de excelente nivel y esperamos contribuir nuevamente a la discusión de temas relevantes desde la óptica de países muy diversos, pero de gran peso e influencia en la industria naviera y del transporte".
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

LAWYRESCHILE Three Burning Legal Questions »

Three Burning Legal Questions »

'Law Enforcement Against Prohibition' Says California Should Legalize It

Some police departments in California are now stretched so thin that they're already telling citizens straight up, "If you come home to find your house burglarized and you call, we're not coming." So you can imagine how they might feel about the possession and use of small amounts of marijuana: Legalize it.

The Los Angeles Times reports (via Consumerist) that this is the view, at least, of a group called Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, which supports Proposition 19 that will be voted upon by Californians in November. Proposition 19 would make it legal to grow, possess and use up to an ounce of marijuana for personal use.

LEAP says that legalizing marijuana under Proposition 19 will free up the police to focus its efforts on more serious crimes. LEAP members include former Orange County Judge James Gray and former San Jose Police Chief Joseph McNamara. Gray says that only retired law enforcement people like himself are free to speak out honestly on the subject, and that the opposition to Proposition 19 from other law enforcement groups is just a good show: "They have a political job, so they can't tell the truth," he said.

LEAP members say that, among other things, passing Proposition 19 would:

cut down the number of drug arrests made in California by around 60,000 each year;
free up time for police to investigate things like murders and burglaries;
strike a blow against the drug cartels, which are are estimated to get around 60% of their money from illegal pot sales; and
bring in over $1 billion/year in tax revenue.

Posted by Bruce Carton on September 14, 2010

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LAWYERSCHILE: 'Sh*t Law Jobs:' Your Portal to Finding All the Jobs You Do Not Want

'Sh*t Law Jobs:' Your Portal to Finding All the Jobs You Do Not Want

Are you a lawyer looking for a job? Not a good job, mind you -- can't help you with that. We're talking here about that subset of law jobs that "most lawyers likely wouldn't want," but which "beat being unemployed." We're talking about "lawyer jobs that are low-paying with long hours." We're talking, of course, about "Sh*t Law Jobs."

As far as I can tell, Sh*t Law Jobs is a job board for the sorriest lawyer jobs SLJ can find by scouring Craigslist. Since May 2010, SLJ has reproduced Craiglist listings for 64 such jobs, including a "Consumer law attorney job in Ohio" that pays $15/hour (but free parking!) and a "Newly admitted attorney job in New York" that pays the minuscule (but refreshingly simple) amount of $100/day.

Want to follow Sh*t Law Jobs on Twitter or be their friend on Facebook? No problem, they've got that covered for you, as well. And they even have their own snazzy logo depicting a gavel slamming down on a steaming pile of, well, you know.

Posted by Bruce Carton on September 14

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'Sh*t Law Jobs:' Your Portal to Finding All the Jobs You Do Not Want

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'Sh*t Law Jobs:' Your Portal to Finding All the Jobs You Do Not Want

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'Sh*t Law Jobs:' Your Portal to Finding All the Jobs You Do Not Want

Posted by Bruce Carton on September 14

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Thursday, September 09, 2010

The Legal Perils of Memorializing Countless Details of Your Life

The Slaw.ca blog has an interesting post showing one more example of how the rise of social media -- in this case Twitter and a method of uploading photos to the web called "TwitPic" -- can influence legal cases. The matter discussed by Slaw.ca involves none other than Paris Hilton, who appears in legal blogs surprisingly often for someone who doesn't seem to do much other than party.

In this case, Omar Ha-Redeye writes that Hilton was recently charged with felony drug possession after she was allegedly found to be in possession of 0.8 grams of cocaine when a car driven by her boyfriend Cy Waits was pulled over. Hilton quickly claimed that the neither the drugs nor the purse in which it was found were hers ("even though she acknowledged ownership of her asthma medication, credit cards and $1,300 in cash also found inside the purse" -- go figure). Hilton claimed she was carrying the purse (pictured below courtesy of TMZ) for a friend:

Which leads us to the "Incrimination by TwitPic," as Ha-Redeye puts it. It turns out that one month before her arrest, Hilton tweeted, "Love My New Chanel Purse I got Today. :)" (happy face emoticon in original) and she included a photo (below) of the beloved purse that a cynic might say looks just like the purse in which the cocaine was found. Doh!!!

It remains to be seen if the TwitPic will have any effect on Hilton's possession case, but the episode is an interesting reminder that memorializing so many details of your life may be used against you down the road.

Posted by Bruce Carton on September 8, 2010 at 12:19 PM

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Monday, August 30, 2010

LOBBY: Dodd forswears a lobbying career

Dodd forswears a lobbying career

By Deirdre Shesgreen

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chris Dodd says he still doesn't know what he'll do come January 2011, when, for the first time in 36 years, he will no longer be a member of Congress. But he has ruled out one option.

"No lobbying, no lobbying," Dodd said in a recent interview. That Dodd would forgo a trip through Washington's "revolving door," using his policy and political expertise--and a thick Rolodex--to launch a new career in the influence industry, may come as a surprise.

For one thing, more than 300 former House and Senate members have chosen that well-worn, lucrative path, according to a tally by the Center for Responsive Politics. The list of those who have gone from Capitol Hill to K Street includes many from Connecticut, including ex-Reps. Nancy Johnson, Barbara Kennelly, Toby Moffett and Bruce Morrison. Others, such as former Reps. William Ratchford and Ron Sarasin, have worked as lobbyists but are no longer registered.

Even former Republican Rep. Chris Shays, a leading voice in Congress for stronger ethics and campaign finance laws, said he wouldn't close off the possibility of becoming a lobbyist.

Chris Dodd talks to John Larson, but he won't lobby him in retirement. (CT Mirror)

"I made a decision that if I became a lobbyist, I would wait two years," said Shays, who was defeated in the 2008 election. (There's a one-year ban on lawmakers becoming lobbyists, although many work as "strategic consultants" or advisers before that cooling off period ends.)

Shays is currently serving as co-chair of the federal Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, a bipartisan group created to examine U.S. defense contracting policies. Even though lobbying is not something he's actively considering now, Shays said, "I would never rule it out."

In fact, most of the former members of Congress from Connecticut now working as lobbyists said they initially had no intention of taking that path.

"I did not want to stay in Washington. I had no interest," said Moffett, who served in the House from 1975 through 1982 and then, after losing a Senate bid, returned to Connecticut to become a television news anchor. But after several years in the news business followed by an unsuccessful House campaign in 1990, Moffett made his way back to Washington as a lobbyist-in no small part because of the opportunity to make more money.

"I was like 47, and I had six children, five of them little," Moffett said. "I said it's time to do something different. And clearly you're going to make more money, even if you're not that good."

Moffett, of course, says he is good. He and several other former Connecticut lawmakers are raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars for their firms. And despite the negative connotation around their post-Congressional career choice, they all clearly love the lobbying life.

"It's natural," ex-Rep. Barbara Kennelly said of her decision to remain in D.C. and do advocacy work. "I never thought I was going to stay, but you start looking for a job, and what do you know? You know what you have been doing."

After 17 years in Congress and two years in the Clinton Administration, Kennelly jumped to a major Washington law and lobbying firm as a consultant. Then a headhunter sought her out for the top job at the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, a major D.C. advocacy group dedicated to protecting those two federal entitlement programs. It was a perfect fit, she said, because she had focused so much on bolstering those two programs in Congress and at the White House.

Kennelly now oversees a sophisticated political operation at the National Committee, which spent more than $1 million on lobbying last year and has doled out another $1 million in political action committee donations so far this election.

Moreover, just as when she was Connecticut's 1st District congresswoman, Kennelly finds herself immersed in the major policy battles of the day, such as the current wrangling over how to rein in federal spending. She is "constantly" attending fundraisers and traveling around the country to make political endorsements or attend events with key lawmakers, many of them her former colleagues.

Ditto for Nancy Johnson, who is as involved with federal health care issues now as when she chaired the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee. A 24-year House veteran, Johnson is now lobbyist at one of Washington's most venerable firms, working the Hill and the Executive Branch on behalf of a bevy of health care companies and other private-sector clients.

As with Kennelly and Moffett, Johnson said she never intended to become a lobbyist. But when the top brass at Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz started courting her, she realized she would love the work, which she says is more "strategic advising" than lobbying. That's Washington-speak for telling businesses how to work the political system in the nation's capital-who the key players are and how to pitch a legislative request.

But Johnson also still spends plenty of time walking the halls of Congress. She is registered to lobby for about a half-dozen clients that have paid her firm nearly $350,000 in the first half of 2010. During the health care reform debate, for example, she took one of her clients, CentriHealth Inc., to meetings with key staff on the House and Senate committees drafting the legislation.

CentriHealth sells information technology systems to health providers so they can create a single digital record for a patient. And the company wanted to make sure the legislation called for "interoperability," the capacity for doctors and hospitals to update a patient's records electronically even if they were working in different offices or provider networks, so its product could become more widespread.

Johnson and her client won key changes to the bill, nixing vague standards on electronic health records in favor of specific ones requiring interoperability. "They didn't realize how far the industry had gone" in technological innovations, Johnson said of the congressional staff writing the bill. "If you don't have interoperability, you won't have an accurate health record."

Johnson said the doors to power in Washington "have all been very open to me," because of her expertise on health care and other issues, not to mention her personal connections to one-time congressional colleagues.

Bruce Morrison said he got into the lobbying business because he felt like it was the best way to "stay engaged in advocating for good policy." He spends about half his time lobbying on financial services issues and the other half on immigration.

In the House, Morrison chaired a House subcommittee on immigration and co-authored the 1990 Immigration Act. Now, he represents the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, pressing lawmakers to ease the entry requirements for Irish citizens coming to the U.S. That effort builds on the 1990 immigration law, which, among other things, set aside 48,000 new visas for people from Ireland. Morrison also lobbies for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., which wants Congress to make it easier for foreign-born engineers to earn green cards-and not temporary visas-when working in the U.S.

His financial service clients include the Norwalk-based Financial Accounting Standards Board and Essent, a new mortgage insurance company. In all, Morrison's firm, which he runs with his wife and one of his former congressional aides, has earned more than $500,000 in fees from about 14 clients, lobbying records show.

Moffett said he chooses his clients to match his political philosophy, which means he only lobbies Democrats. But he often pairs up with other firms who have Republican ties and can press a client's case with GOP lawmakers. His current roster of clients includes the Interactive Gaming Council, a renewable energy company, and the governments of Egypt, Morocco and Kenya.

Moffett said that being a former House member does help him get access, but only so much. "I can get one foot in the door that other people perhaps can't," he said, "but I can't get both feet in the door unless I know what I'm talking about."

He said he loves the work because, "you're in the fast lane of issues," something he also felt when he was in the House.

The downside? That's also the same as when he was an elected official. "The mix between money and politics," he said. "It's obscene. It's just means you get 150 emails and phone calls a day from people begging for money."

Johnson and Kennelly said they, too, still spend a good deal of time going to fundraisers and receptions. But they don't mind that too much.

"I love it," Kennelly said. "I get to see my friends ... And I'm a political animal, there's no doubt about it."

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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

LAWYERSCHILE: Blawger/Candidate Suggests Giving Your Law License to God, but Not Your Vote?

Blawger/Candidate Suggests Giving Your Law License to God, but Not Your Vote?

It may not have the mainstream appeal of the story about the Georgetown Law graduate who sold his law degree on craigslist, but blogger, and Republican candidate for the Pennsylvania legislature, Stephen Bloom of the Believer's Guide to Legal Issues, has built a following around the notion of giving your law license to God.

Bloom wrote a book that shares the same name as his blog and has a second blog along the same lines. His basic philosophy, he says, is captured by this article in the Liberty Legal Journal, adapted from a presentation he often gives to students.

It's pretty heavy stuff. For example:

(2) Do not assume that having faith is enough. Be alert and ready to resist when Satan presents you with a shadow mission for your career that hits all your weakest places, and plays perfectly to your ego and talents.

Warning lawyers to resist Satan -- isn't that like warning fish to stay dry?

Bad jokes aside, reading Bloom's writings, and some of the writings about him (including prior LBW coverage), evokes interesting questions. For starters: How should religious belief intersect with secular law? Would/should Bloom ever represent a client that does not share his faith?

And how does Bloom's philosophy affect his aspiring political career? The following is one of his tenets:

(4) Do not be afraid to reveal your faith in the marketplace. Be a transparent, hopeful, honest, joyful witness in your work. Do not hide who you are, do not hide Jesus Christ.

Yet his religious beliefs seem to be downplayed on his campaign website, with no real mention of his blogs (though there is a link to the Amazon page for his book), and no explicit Christian message as part of his platform.

Readers: the floor is open. Have anything to say about Bloom specifically or religion in law or politics generally?

Posted by Eric Lipman on August 24, 2010 at 01:17

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LAWYERSCHILE: Judge Shows Burglar Some Georgia Justice

Judge Shows Burglar Some Georgia Justice

Yesterday, the WSJ Law Blog linked out to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article about the state of Georgia's seemingly league-leading run of recent scandalous behavior on the part of its jurists. The article references, among others, the judge caught having sex with a public defender in a parked car, and the one who "inappropriately touched a prosecutor and investigator after they sat in his lap posing for a photo."

Georgia needed some good news about its judges ... [MORE]

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Posted by Eric Lipman on August 24, 2010 at

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Apple Wants to Spy on You All Hi-Tech-Like

Here I am, seriously considering switching from a BlackBerry to an iPhone when my contract runs out next week, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation has to go and ruin it for me.

On the EFF Deeplinks blog yesterday, Julie Samuels posted about Apple's patent application for technology, which Samuels dubs "traitorware," that will enable Apple to "secretly collect, store and potentially use sensitive biometric information about you."

The details are sort of frightening. The patent application is entitled "SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING UNAUTHORIZED USERS OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE." But if Samuels is correct, such an invention would not be so limited. The technology will allow Apple to remotely, and without detection, capture an image of a user's face, the user's voice and a unique "heartbeat signature." It would also be possible to capture photos of the location where the phone is being used, and monitor or record essentially all usage of the device.

Basically, it sounds like when you let the guy from your information technology department "remote in" to your PC to fix some issue with your Word macros. Except it's not the IT guy, but Steve Jobs. And you have no idea he happens to be listening and watching as you talk to your friend about your torrid affair with your downstairs neighbor. In person, over a cocktail, while your phone just happens to be sitting on the table.

Maybe I don't really need to play Angry Birds that badly.

Posted by Eric Lipman on August 24, 2010 at 12:33 PM

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Friday, August 13, 2010

laeyerschile: Miami Drug Court Judge in Minivan Nabs Skating Camera Thief

Miami Drug Court Judge in Minivan Nabs Skating Camera Thief

One of the things I love about this gig here at LBW is that it gives me an excuse to read some fairly obscure legal blogs. For instance, I can't imagine why else I might find myself randomly checking out the Justice Building Blog, which is dedicated to the goings on in and around the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building in Miami.

Had I not clicked on the link for the Justice Building Blog, I would never have found this post, about Miami Drug Court Judge Deborah White-Labora's role in pursuing, and ultimately apprehending, a guy on Rollerblades ... [MORE]

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Posted by Eric Lipman on August 12, 2010

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Bruxelles autorise la commercialisation de six maïs OGM, faute de position commune

Publicado el 28 Julio 2010.

Les maïs concernés sont destinés à l'alimentation animale et ont reçu un avis scientifique favorable. Les autorisations sont valables dix ans.

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