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Solo attorneys need a marketing presence, and they should know to focus on it. Still confused about where to get started? FindLaw.com offers a no-hassle marketing solution in the Lawyer Directory, and it’s so simple to sign up. Solo practitioners have made their marks by making decisions and following their own instincts, so we wouldn’t expect them to jump in to a marketing strategy just because others have. Want to make an informed decision?...

If necessity is the mother of invention, could a hurricane be the mother of new litigation? Apparently so. In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, attorneys have already filed lawsuits on behalf of homeowners and businesses that were deluged. They could open a floodgate of, well, you know the story. According to reports, climate-change science may also lead to pioneering lawsuits. Predicting Damages Rapid scientific advances are making it possible to predict how hurricanes are caused by climate change, Reuters reports....

Before Britain can begin its withdrawal from the European Union, it will have to invoke Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, which allows EU members to begin their divorce from the Union. But if you’ve entered into agreements and contracts that have been frustrated by the Brexit, you too might be able to invoke some clauses of your own. Corporate lawyers may be able to rely on so-called “Brexit clauses” in contract boilerplate to get out of deals that have been soured by Britain’s refusal to remain in the Union – and pretty much every contract has them....

While President Trump looks for another way to ban immigrants from Muslim countries and proceeds to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, a less visible border battle is playing out with Canada. Border Patrol agents have been stopping Canadians, questioning them about their religion and national origin, and then demanding access to their phones. As part of the president’s ban against immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations, agents have been screening Muslims at the borders between Canada and the United States....

Our definition of family has changed greatly since Eve was fashioned from Adam’s rib, Athena sprung fully-formed from her father’s head, or Oedipus gouged out his eyes – even since Ward and June Cleaver settled down together. Just last year, the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples are entitled to equal marriage rights, expanding the range of families protected by the law. And the concept of family remains in flux, as changes in social norms and reproductive technology displace the nuclear family as our primary family model....

After serving 5 years of a 24-year sentence, former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling wants another day before the Supreme Court. Skilling was convicted in 2006 of conspiracy, securities fraud, making false representations to auditors, and insider trading associated with the Enron collapse. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed his convictions in 2009, but the Supreme Court invalidated one of the grounds of Skilling’s conspiracy charge - honest-services fraud - and kicked the case back to the Fifth Circuit in 2010....

The door between public service and private industry is a revolving one. Examples abound of regulators who join the industries they once supervised and ex-politicians who made millions as corporate lobbyists. Lawyers are no special case. Plenty of attorneys leave practice for public service, only to return after a few years. Eric Holder is the latest through the revolving door. After six years as Attorney General, Holder announced recently that he will be returning to his old firm, Covington and Burling....

Both Big Daddy Kane and Ice-T have lamented the fact that pimpin’ ain’t easy, but the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals just made the hard knock life a little harder for a pimp convicted on federal prostitution inducement charges in Florida. Federal law prohibits “knowingly” persuading, inducing, enticing, or coercing a minor to engage in prostitution; violators face a minimum of 10 years in prison. When Robert Daniels, a.k.a. “Twin T,” was convicted of inducing a 14-year-old into prostitution, his lawyers argued that the conviction shouldn’t stick because Daniels didn’t know that she was a child prostitute, reports The Wall Street Journal....

Former Maine Governor John Baldacci commissioned a mural for the waiting area of the Maine Department of Labor in 2007. The mural — meant to convey the value of the labor force and the history of Maine labor — including depictions of a shoe-worker strike, child laborers and Rosie the Riveter. In 2011, current Maine Governor Paul LePage created a kerfuffle when he ordered the 11-panel, 7-foot-tall mural removed because he considered it biased in favor of organized labor over business interests....

Thinking about installing Dragon Dictation onto your mobile device? First, the app is free. And the dictation software is relatively easy to use. Now, when you compare it to Siri it doesn’t have as many functions. For example, Dragon Dictation cannot search the web for you when prompted. It also cannot answer questions. The app can take dictation for you. The app takes down what you dictate to it. You may be wondering how accurate it is....

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the Internet. If you are married, you may wish to pause and consider how you behave on Facebook and other social media outlets. Why? Because as much as one-third of divorce filings in 2011 included the word “Facebook” within them, according to a report by ABCNews.com. And the numbers may be even higher a few years later....

For the half dozen (current and former) JPMorgan advisers brave enough to file their race discrimination employment case, and the many more current and future employees, the recently announced settlement is a big win. JPMorgan agreed to pay over $19 million in damages, as well as devote over $4 million for improving anti-bias training, and recruiting as well as mentoring for black employees. The case against JPMorgan alleged both intentional and systemic race discrimination based on the disparate impact of the company’s policies on black employees....

In the Trump Twitter-Blocking case, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald was hoping the President would settle by muting unfriendly users rather than blocking them. The plaintiffs sued the president last year after he blocked them from commenting on his Twitter page. They claim Trump violated their free speech rights on a public forum. The president’s lawyers argue it is not a public forum, and that he has the right to associate with people as he chooses....

How do you correspond with clients and other privileged parties? Unless you’re on the Supreme Court, which apparently still uses memos on ivory paper, you probably use email. And if you need to send documents or files to a client, you probably attach them to the email. What else are you doing? Not much, according to a recent survey – the majority of lawyers do little more than include a confidentially statement in the email....

Oh hello there. Sorry if that seemed informal, we’re trying out more of that fourth-wall breaking that seems to work so well for Frank Underwood on Netflix’s political thriller “House of Cards.” But there’s more than just gravitas and Southern drawl to be gleaned from Netflix’s ruthless pragmatist. Check out these five legal lessons we learned from watching “House of Cards’” Frank Underwood: (Sidebar:Season 1 spoilers may follow, but it’s been about a year since Season 1 released, so deal with it....

In a 2-1 decision, the Fourth Circuit vacated a ruling by a Maryland district court which held that the Firearms Safety Act of 2013 was constitutional under the erroneously applied standard of intermediate review. The case, Kolbe v. Hogan, has been sent back to the lower district court for another round under the more exacting strict scrutiny standard. This practically ensures that the portion of the law banning assault weapons and large capacity magazines will be found unconstitutional....

My relationship with Microsoft goes back to the early-90s, when as a first-grader, my stepfather taught me how to use DOS command prompts and install Windows 3.1. True old-school. The advent of the Internet and Windows 95 only solidified my relationship with Redmond; for the longest time, Microsoft could do no wrong. So where did Redmond go wrong? It may have began with the browser wars. Netscape killed IE in terms of speed and reliability....

There’s been a lot talk about “digital natives” lately, that cohort of Millennials who grew up immersed in an online world, never engaging in once-common activities like flipping through an encyclopedia or trying to fold up a map. Those tasks were largely outsourced to computers by the late ’90s. Surprisingly, it turns out that many in this generation of computer whizzes can’t do even the most basic Internet task: Google effectively....

In the great state of Louisiana, the state’s attorney general and commissioner of alcohol and tobacco have been fighting a fight that exotic dancers just don’t think are right. In 2016, the state both defined and raised the minimum age requirement for exotic dancers in establishments that serve alcohol. While the industry had always presumed the minimum age was 18, this was not actually stated in the law. In 2016, the new law passed and set the minimum age at 21, which as a result, caused many dancers between the ages of 18 and 21 to be out of a job, or forced to take other positions which pay significantly less....

There’s a reason LinkedIn urges you to upload a photo. For better or worse, how we look deeply affects others’ perceptions of our strength, intelligence and trustworthiness, according to a round up of the relevant neuroscience done by Entrepreneur Magazine. So, are you ready for your close up? Here’s five tips to help you repeat the benefits of a well-done LinkedIn photo: Foregoing a photo all together makes your profile look incomplete and can also give the impression that you’ve got something to hide....