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Alabama State Bar Activates Young Lawyers Section for Disaster Legal Assist
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MONTGOMERY – The Alabama State Bar in coordination with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the American Bar Association on Tuesday announced the activation of the Young Lawyers Section of the…
Read MoreAlabama State Bar Inducts New Members to Lawyers’ Hall of Fame
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MONTGOMERY – The Alabama State Bar on Friday inducted five new members into the Alabama Lawyers’ Hall of Fame. “The lawyers we are recognizing have improved the communities in which they live,
Read MoreAlabama State Bar Holds Annual Law Day Ceremony and Competition
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MONTGOMERY – The Alabama State Bar on Thursday held its annual Law Day ceremony and awards presentation announcing the winners of the 2014 competition. This year, more than 500 entries were received…
Read MoreHow to Handle Heartbleed
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I was out of the office last week when the Heartbleed bug burst into the news so, while I’m a little slow getting information posted about it, things seemed to have resolved…
Read MoreCasemaker Now Has Legal Forms
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Casemaker, the Alabama State Bar’s free legal research service, is once again offering discounted forms, via U.S. Legal Forms, from within the Casemaker website. To take advantage of the forms and the…
Read More5 Steps to Easy(ier) Legal Accounting
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The Legal Technology Resource Center, a part of the ABA Law Practice Division, is now facilitating free webinars to help lawyers with practice management issues, and the next one, 5 Steps to…
Read MoreMichelle R. Owens of Montgomery Named State Bar’s Director of Finance; First Person To Hold That Title
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Montgomery, Ala., April 1, 2014 – Alabama State Bar Executive Director Keith B. Norman has announced the hiring of Michelle R. Owens, Montgomery, as the bar’s first director of finance. State Bar…
Read MoreCheck Out PacerPro – It’s Free!
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Lawyers who practice in the federal court system have long grumbled that the PACER system is clunky and hard to use. One lawyer, Gavin McGrane, was so disgruntled that he decided to…
Read MoreAlabama State Bar Votes on Military Lawyer-Spouse Rule
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Montgomery, Ala., March 18, 2014 – The Alabama State Bar Board of Bar Commissioners on Friday voted to allow a lawyer who is a military spouse to practice law temporarily in the…
Read MoreIs it Time for Office 365?
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If you’re like me, you can only absorb and assimilate so much change at one time. I think that’s one reason lawyers often stick with old – or even completely outdated –
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