We’re excited to announce the winner of this year’s End of Summer Sweepstakes. A big congratulations to Brenda Masalta, a business attorney from Dallas, Texas who will receive a new iPad2! We really appreciate everyone’s participation in the survey. Your responses definitely help us understand attorneys’ beliefs about how technology can help the legal industry…
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Archive | October, 2011
Be Scared, Be Very Scared! Happy Halloween from Rocket Lawyer
Just another Monday…or is it? If you came in for a job interview today, hopefully you weren’t scared off by a veritable menagerie of characters: animals, basketball players, wizards, and even (you guessed it) legal documents! More singular, but no less memorable, was a crash test mummy, an electrical socket, Don Draper, an iPhone, plus…
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End of Summer Sweepstakes Winner Announced
Show Me The Money! Top 5 Ways to Make Sure Your Clients Pay Their Bills On Time
Law firms can’t operate unless there’s enough money coming in to keep the lights on. As a lawyer you’re working hard for your clients because you’ve taken an oath to and because you get paid to do so. Clients sometimes either cannot pay their bills, or many times, they decide they don’t need to once…
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Account Collection: Should You Hire a Lawyer or Debt Collector to Get What You’re Owed?
Metermaids notwithstanding, there aren’t too many jobs with a worse reputation than debt collectors. In those grainy old noir movies, they’re guys with square hands and blackjacks, the sort of goons who corner you in an alley and ask if you enjoy having working kneecaps. In less cinematic settings, they’re the folks who harass you…
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Over-educated, Under-employed? Reflections on Law School Debt from a Recent Grad
Guest contributor Natasha Petrukhin weighs the pros and cons of getting a law degree (and the debt that comes with it) as attorney job prospects become more scarce. Thousands of newly minted law school graduates across the country are facing a new financial reality this fall. Without even knowing whether they’ve passed the bar, grads…
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Don’t Get Robbed: 8 Steps for Collecting Your Small Business Debts
You’re great at what you do. But are you a quick shot at getting paid? If you’re like most small business owners, you pride yourself on working hard to win contracts and customers, and on providing products and services that delight and exceed their expectations. You know that it’s your responsibility to deliver what you…
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iPhone 4S: ’4 Steve’ – Tech Titan Passes
It has been a bittersweet week for the family at Apple Inc., to say the least. On the heels of what should have been a watershed moment for recently minted CEO Tim Cook — the unveiling of the highly anticipated iPhone 4S — came an even more momentous announcement for the tech world: Steve Jobs,…
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Contracts 101: How Putting it in Writing Helps You Get Paid
In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need contracts. We’d all just shake hands, take each other at our word, and do the job we promised we’d do for the price we agreed on. Of course, we don’t live in a perfect world. Ask any freelancer if they’ve ever done a job and not gotten paid.…
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Affordable Rehab Meets Affordable Legal Services: Small Business Stories
When most of us think about corporations, we think big. We think about companies like Microsoft or Ford Motors, businesses with massive workforces, decades of history, and millions of stock holders. But not all corporations are that big. In fact, most are much smaller. Take Affordable Rehab, for example. Diane Yousefi started Affordable Rehab more…
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