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Lawyer Websites and Spelling

Posted on June 05, 2009
I was just looking at a lawyer website and it some animated graphics. Below is an image I clipped from the animation.Maybe it's just me, but I think clients are a bit less likely to hire a lawyer who spells poorly. Click on the image below and it should enlarge a bit and be easier to read...

Advanta and Credit Card Woes

Posted on May 26, 2009
We've been using an Advanta MasterCard for our business for several years now. So today I get an e-mail that they're canceling all their credit card accounts - in four days. Thanks for giving me time to get a new card.Apparently we have not been like their typical customer...

Dyslexic SEO with Flash

Posted on May 22, 2009
If you don't find this funny, you don't get SEO.And if that doesn't persuade you, this is from one of their sites:Apparently optimizing for misspellings. Or Mineloa is an fff'ing long Hawaiian island.On the bright side, the lawyer probably ended up paying them $19...

Traffic Court: New Milestones

Posted on May 21, 2009
New milestones for our traffic court website. As shown below, over 150K visits in the last 31 days, and over 130K unique visitors. For those unfamiliar with our stats, the peaks are Mondays and the valleys are weekends.Moreno Valley Court in California is the busiest on the site, with over 1400 pageviews in that 31-day stretch...

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GPS, Privacy, and the NY Court of Appeals

Posted on May 20, 2009
Great decision by the New York Court of Appeals, in the case of People v. Weaver. Police, without a warrant, placed a GPS tracking device on the underside of the defendant's car - for 65 days. They later used the GPS evidence against him in a criminal trial where he was convicted...

Me, Rudy Giuliani, and some other guy

Posted on May 12, 2009
Here's a picture for ya!I'm kidding about the "some other guy" in the title. That's Peter King, a congressman thought to be a candidate for US Senate in 2010.The Rudy thing is funny. I have been critical in the past of him: Rudy Giuliani and Ron Paul...

Hate Lawyers?

Posted on May 07, 2009
Just stumbled on an article by Andrew Fischer on LewRockwell.com. It's one of those "hate lawyers" stories. Normally I like what I see on that site, and I'd probably agree with a lot of Fischer's other articles, but I have to rip this one apart. Quotes from the article are in italics...

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Posted on May 06, 2009

Albany Lawyer Gets Rear-Ended

Posted on May 01, 2009
There's some kind of irony or poetic justice in this. I got rear-ended yesterday. Stopped at a traffic light, and an SUV behind me bumped my car. Even though my kids were in the car, it's easy to laugh about it because the damage seems so minimal. There's a crack in the top of the rear bumper...

Nicole Black: On the Cutting Edge

Posted on April 28, 2009
For those who are interested in following lawyers on the cutting edge of technology, Nicole Black is it. In addition to being a well respected criminal defense lawyer, she is a whiz at various technology issues. Her main website is Nicole Black, Esq., and she is also one of the most followed lawyers on Twitter: Niki Black - Twitter...

Traffic Court News

Posted on April 27, 2009
So here's the latest with our directory of traffic courts. For starters, the directory now covers all or part of 19 states, the District of Columbia, and even a few in Toronto. We've completed Illinois and North Carolina, and are almost done with Maryland and Georgia...

Google Similar Images: Andrew Cuomo and ... is that Jamie Lynn Spears?

Posted on April 22, 2009
Saw Google Similar Images mentioned on Twitter. Was goofing around. Disappointed that there were none for my images. But here's the link to what happens with an Andrew Cuomo photo. Image below in case the results change.And while I'm disappointed that I'm not famous enough to merit similar image treatment, neither does Kirsten Gillibrand, and she's a US Senator.

Phil Steck

Posted on April 20, 2009
I got a letter from Phil Steck. An image is below and I think if you click on it you get a bigger version.I love this line: "Please cease and desist from using philsteck.com without my permission."Mr. Steck - I don't need your permission. You let your own domain name lapse...

Bad web marketing: Fidelity HR/Payroll

Posted on April 14, 2009
Something caught my eye yesterday in the Wall Street Journal. It was an ad for Fidelity's HR/Payroll service. We use an online payroll service now. I'm happy with it, but I've always liked Fidelity and figured it might be a better option because of the potential linkage with retirement accounts...

Ian Tomlinson: Are Police The Good Guys?

Posted on April 09, 2009
Troubling story from London:So often today police are offered as the solution to this problem or the other. Could be drugs, DWI, or the latest - sexting. We need to remember that police are far from perfect. This video is a reminder.With drugs, we keep arresting more and more people, and stuffing our prisons, despite overwhelming evidence that treatment is more effective...

Red Light Cameras Increase Accidents

Posted on April 02, 2009
In a previous post I mentioned that New York was set to add speed cameras to our highways. That has apparently disappeared from the budget.The budget does have a substantial increase in red light cameras. They say it's not for the revenue but rather for safety...

Breath Test Videos

Posted on March 31, 2009
Saw these great breath test videos on YouTube. I mentioned them on my other blog recently, but thought they deserved their own post. For those who believe in the Breathalyzer, these videos will give you something to think about.The first video demonstrates the problem of mouth alcohol...

DWI Consequences: Travel to Canada

Posted on March 29, 2009
DWI lawyers frequently get clients who just want the case over with. We lawyers can usually get the charge reduced to DWAI. Then everything's hunky-dory, right?Here's a sobering lesson from a client who took a DWAI:is there ANY WAY to get this charge changed to something else?? i cross the canadian border A LOT for work, and every time i cross i have to pay $200 canadian, and risk not getting in

Google Analytics by Day of Week

Posted on March 29, 2009
The two images below show web traffic to our county court site and to my Albany restaurant review blog. They come from Google Analytics. Very helpful for monitoring our websites.What stands out about this is the difference in traffic by day of the week...

Strip-searching a 13-year-old?

Posted on March 24, 2009
This New York Times article about a school strip-searching a 13-year-old girl pretty much says it all. The Supreme Court will decide soon on it. This does not sound like the America I was raised to believe in. Would you want your school to do this to your kid?

Albany Lawyer on TV again -- Video Link

Posted on March 20, 2009
Thanks to Liz Bishop for interviewing me about DWI and DWAI cases. The video is here.You can also read my blog post about it on my other blog: Stop Wasting Money on DWI.

Albany Lawyer in the Newspaper

Posted on March 19, 2009
Well, I'm in the paper again.It motivated me to do a blog post on my Stop Wasting Money blog about DWI.I included some great videos, so check it out!Here's the Times Union article.

Power of the Mainstream Media

Posted on March 15, 2009
One of my local-interest websites was mentioned in the Times Union twice recently. The graph below shows the effect of that on website traffic.The two spikes, each about 150 visits, constitute about one third of total traffic to the site during that period...

Albany Lawyer on TV!!

Posted on March 13, 2009
I was on NewsChannel 13 last night. I don't see the video online, but here's the story:Tough Times Keeping Lawyers BusyThanks to Abigail Bleck for doing the story and for including me. I'm flattered.The story relates to at least a few of my past blog posts:Recession, Crime and LawyersCriminal Defense Lawyer ThoughtsandThe Surcharge Tax Increase

Great story on FL traffic courts

Posted on March 12, 2009
Below is a great TV expose on a dubious Florida traffic court practice.

HP Customer Service By Chat

Posted on March 08, 2009
My mom has been having problems with her new printer/fax/scanner/phone. So after messing around with it I decided to try to get an RMA from HP. They have a feature where you can "chat" with someone online. I think it said you get instant customer service...

Mid-forties

Posted on March 06, 2009
The Albany Lawyer will shortly enter his mid-forties. Oh, that's me. Maybe age causes you to talk about yourself in the third-person. Remember Bob Dole? If not, you're either very young or really getting old.Anyway, so far the 40s aren't going so badly...

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