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You say you want to hear more about the state of the profession? 24 hours is just not enough time for everything you have on your mind? Do you have trouble sleeping? If the answer to any of these questions was yes, or if you’re just curious about what is going on today that will affect us all tomorrow, then I urge you to listen to This Week in Law, a podcast hosted by one of the best legal bloggers anywhere and featuring a cast of thousands (of words) spoken by a few guests. This week’s episode: Rate a Lawyer featuring

• Mark Britton: Attorney and CEO of Avvo
• Denise Howell: your moderator and gracious host
• Ernie “the Attorney” Svenson: legal blogging legend
• Dennis Kennedy: the “Indiana Jones” of legal blogging
• Mazyar Hedayat: your humble narrator

 In this episode we discuss the future of Avvo and the legal profession itself. Listen for yourself and let us know what you think.

M E M O

To: Partners, Professors, Deans, Members of the Legal Establishment

From: Your Future

Re: Your Next Associate or other Hire

First, congratulations are in order. You’ve managed a masterwork of social engineering, keeping law students and young lawyers under your collective thumbs for 200 years (give or take). No easy feat.

Second, kudos on using the time-honored pyramid-scheme/MLM techniques that pass for a business model in law firms around America. Even we in the Future didn’t think that Clients, Law Schools, Law Students, and the rest of the population could be fooled for that long. Just goes to show what we know.

Finally, we salute your never give-up, never-give-in, never-think-things-through attitude. Who says you need to change with the times? Let the times change with you, we say!

But just in case any of you actually becomes aware of this post (and why would you — you don’t need or care a fig about blogs), we thought we would introduce you to Charlie … he’s smart, agile, mobile, and demanding. Uh … maybe we spoke too soon about that ‘congratulations’ thing. We’ll get back to you on that.

Sincerely,

Your Future

P.S. Send money. We don’t make nearly as much as you used to …

just because the iPhone is scheduled to come out at the end of this month doesn’t mean that it really will … so until it really does, feast on this wannabe from Nokia.

the Nokia 6500 comes in 2 convenient flavors: candy bar and slider. so until Apple puts you out of your misery, feast on this picture and get the whole shooting match (photo gallery and everything) here.

document automation :: process consulting :: e-discovery consulting

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View your Home or Office Security Systems
from your Internet-Enabled PDA or PDA-Phone!

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With the rise of European dissatisfaction in Apple’s attitude to consumers, Reuters reports that Norway’s ombudsman has taken the reins and issued a clear warning to Apple Computer: that its restriction of purchased music to its own iPod hardware is grossly unfair. Demanding that Apple makes the downloads compatible with other digital music players, the Norwegian ombudsman has given them until October 2007 to widen the range, otherwise fines could be imposed.

now available: ipod nanos™ and video ipods preloaded with cle programs specific to your practice area. video ipods for the business and labor/employment law include video cle programs. ipod nanos include audio cle programs in litigation, antitrust, estate planning, health law, real property.

see the aba’s website for additional practice-specific cle titles.

question: why aren’t we doing this at the dcba? we can and should be podcasting and vidcasting.