Practice Management

Google Goggles - Visual Search Engine

Posted on December 28, 2009
We certainly live in the age of Google. I use it in everyday life. I now use it every day with my DROID. Although not yet perfect, Google Goggles is pretty amazing. A visual search engine in the making. It is the way of the future. View this video. By the way, this video is from YouTube, Google's video search engine.

The University Of Texas Football Program Makes Most Valuable In The Country List

Posted on December 28, 2009
How does this apply the Third Wave practice of law? Well, I guess it does not, but carpet commuters, shingle hangers, connected attorneys, future lawyers, and home office warriors also like football. We also like the concept for money, marketing and business...

The Third Wave Continues To Revolutionize The World

Posted on December 27, 2009
HuffPo had a great slide show on those things that became obsolete in their opinion this decade. No matter what the list or opinions, it demonstrates more than anything the vision of Alvin Toffler and the challenges, from our perspective, of the practice of law in this new era (or wave)...

Redemption

Posted on December 25, 2009
And no, I am not talking about an economic transaction like redeeming something at a pawn shop, a coupon, or cashing in a certificate of deposit. I am talking about deliverance from past sins, to use a theological term. Absolution from damnation. Or, redemptive suffering where you are absolved from past sins...

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Seasons Blogging To You And Yours

Posted on December 25, 2009
To everyone who follows Chuck Newton Rides The Third Wave, I want to wish you a very wonderful holiday season. To those that celebrate Christmas, please have a Merry Christmas. This is a very profound time, and yet one that we spend cherishing the ones we love and for those we care...

The Good Lawyer

Posted on December 24, 2009
I might not get this exactly right, I guess, but it is an issues that I have thought about and struggled with over my career in the practice of law. What makes a good lawyer? To often we think of credentials or other strange abilities, but ultimately it comes down to decency, does it not? Are we, as lawyers, decent human beings? To often in law school, and perpetuated law firms and in particular Big Law, the issue is on tactics and technicalities over substance and truth...

Saturday Night Live Highlights iPhone Problems

Posted on December 20, 2009

Those Fighting Against The iTunes Revolution

Posted on December 19, 2009
HuffPo has a good little picture article or post on the 7 Biggest iTunes Hold-Outs. AC/DC's lead singer, Brian Johnson, calls iTunes a "monster", and he, like some others are holding out and not allowing their music to be sold online. To me, that is probably a mistake...

Taste Of Humiliation

Posted on December 16, 2009
This is the time of year in which I get any number of attorneys writing me about going out on their own come the new year. And, the issue of borrowing money to start the practices comes up. My advice, almost always, is do not do it. This often leaves attorneys in shock as in how can they not do it? One of the benefits of the Third Wave practice of law, if that is what you really want to achieve, is that you can cut your overhead to nothing, if you need to, in order to get started...

You Can Call It A Cabana But I Will Call It A Home Office

Posted on December 15, 2009
I have often speculated about using shipping containers cheaply to create a home office or to clear space in your house in order to move your office to that space. I did not think it had to be ugly or industrial. I did not think it had to be cheap. This point, I believe is proven by a recent article in The Oregonian about a man named Mike Corvi turning an 8' x 20' shipping container into a cabana in his back yard for about $8,000...

The Defamation Of AT&T Wireless By iPhone Fanatics?

Posted on December 13, 2009
I am not a techie. I do not claim to be. My hit and miss experiences with tech, combined with my skinflint ways, have carried me to looking at the practical application of cheap (or cheaper tech) in the Third Wave practice of law. The fact is that if it is too hard for me to figure out, requires something more than some simple advice on how to implement and use it, or is too expensive, then technology might be groundbreaking, but it is presently useless...

Blu Folding Prefab Home Office

Posted on December 10, 2009
I get the comment all of the time from prospective home office people, or those that want to downshift to a small private office at least close to home, that they have no where to work that they can call and treat as their own. I often ask if they have a back yard...

O' Holy Night

Posted on December 06, 2009
I generally hate the Christmas season. It has always been for me the time of low cash flow combined with the most costly of time. The social pressures placed on everyone is so great, it disrupts the enjoyment of the season. The rush. The tough. The anger...

FREE Law School

Posted on December 02, 2009
What is the catch? First, you have to choose public interest work after law school. Second, you have to get admitted to Georgetown University Law Center, which is no easy task in and of itself. Obstacles aside, it is not often that you hear the term free and law school in the same breath...

What Sarah Palin, Dubai And Many Law Firms Have In Common

Posted on December 02, 2009
Each are little more than momentum plays. A momentum play is when you decide to invest time, money, energy, attention or view something only because it is moving big in one direction (or at least it appears that way), but you really know nothing about the fundamentals of the person, company, country, subject matter, beliefs, law firm or whatever into which you invest...

Windows First Teams With Family Guy For Spots Promoting Windows 7, Then Axes Spots, Then Releases Them

Posted on November 30, 2009
I usually leave the tech stuff to other bloggers, but things like Windows 7 are so important to Third Wave practitioners. Besides, the raunchy and political incorrectness of Family Guy aside, these spots are funny.

A Cute Kitten For Your Holiday Enjoyment

Posted on November 28, 2009

No Admission For Internet Law Graduate In Georgia

Posted on November 28, 2009
In a decision by The Supreme Court of Georgia, Joyce K. Batterson will be denied a waiver to licensed in that state in that she graduated from an online law school, licensed by the State of California, Northwestern California University School of Law...

A Few Thanksgiving Facts

Posted on November 26, 2009
You might not know some of the following: 1. Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey, and not the eagle, to be our national bird. 2. Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor and author of "Mary Had A Little Lamb" waged the campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday...

Modesty

Posted on November 25, 2009
I am often asked to describe the attributes of the Third Wave practice of law. In this regard, I have often struggled with possibly the right descriptions. Sure it is easy to talk about features, to use a marketing phrase, but attributes are much different...

Linked In - The Site That Does Nothing!

Posted on November 21, 2009
I am moderately involved in social media, and admittedly some of the uses of some sites is relatively subjective. But, I have never understood Linked In and the value it provides. (In short, it does not provide a value that I can see). I have a Linked In account, which I do not often use...

The High Tech Washing Away Of Sins

Posted on November 13, 2009
I am just as nostalgic as the next guy. I like to visit old churches, and especially the painted Catholic churches built in Texas in the 1800s. I am not sure why, but there is just something comforting about sitting quietly surrounded by history. Maybe it is the thought that all before us had to deal with the same sins, endure the same struggles, and avoid the same temptations, even if they might all be a bit easier or a little different in packaging now with technology...

The Most Expensive Mistakes A Lawyer Can Make

Posted on November 12, 2009
I read an article on HuffPo Business recently in which they reviewed all of the most recently literature on the web and came up with the most expensive mistakes that a business could make starting out. That stated by HuffPo is ture, in my estimation, even if a little bit generic...

Death To Big Law (Schools)?

Posted on November 11, 2009
Big Law as we know is dying, or at least that is what many very educated people think. This spells problems for law schools as well. It might be the kind of problem that brings about real and necessary change. I recently blogged about the Law School Tuition Bubble...

Posted on November 11, 2009

Do Not Mind The Law Snobs

Posted on November 06, 2009
I have been getting attitude from other lawyers lately concerning my practice method. (Well, I guess I have gotten all along in the way of looks and stares, but now it tends to be more snide). For example, in telephone calls and in meetings, I get offhanded jokes and jabs about being a virtual lawyer or law firm...

Rise Of The "Homepreneur"

Posted on November 04, 2009
BusinessWeek published an article on the "homepreneur" and the economic statistics it provides in the article are amazing. Specifically, did you know that we that work from home and collaborate with others account now for more than half of all business in the United States and employ more people than venture-backed companies...

Want To Be A Good Lawyer? Try Not Thinking Too Hard.

Posted on November 01, 2009
I do not know if I can be accused of being a good lawyer, but I am certain I can be accused of not thinking too hard. But, let us face the truth. We all tend to come up with our best stuff -- out best ideas -- our best thinking on a subject when we are distracted and thinking about something that we sometimes more pleasant...

The Law School Tuition Bubble. Has Logical Reasoning Abandoned Our Law Schools?

Posted on October 27, 2009
You know, I lived through the 90s when credit card companies thought they could loan all the money available to anybody regardless of the ability to pay, get the public entrapped, then raise interest rates through the roof, get the Congress to make it harder for families to escape the debt in bankruptcy, and that there would no end to the madness...

Top Paralegal Schools Online

Posted on October 26, 2009
There is a need for paralegal training. Sometimes, it is necessary to acquiring basic knowledge to find a job in the field. Sometimes, someone has a job in the area, has learned a lot on their own, but just feels the need to have the credentials. Either way, it is not always easy to make the move, find the school, or find the time to attend...

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