Wednesday during a special session in Jefferson City, the Missouri Senate unanimously approved a substantial change to a controversial law governing online contact between teachers and students.

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Last month, as we were driving back to my hometown for a holiday party, my children were in the backseat watching “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” on our car’s DVD system. At first, I didn’t pay much ...

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If you use the phrases “rush to judgment,” “jump on the bandwagon” and the always popular “dive in head first,” you certainly wouldn’t be discussing anything remotely related to legal marketing or the practice of law in general. So why ...

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If you use the phrases “rush to judgment,” “jump on the bandwagon” and the always popular “dive in head first,” you certainly wouldn’t be discussing anything remotely related to legal marketing or the practice of law in general. So why ...

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Recent law practice management press touts the opportunities for marketing available through social networking sites. These articles, focusing as they do on growing your practice, frequently fail to mention the risks inherent in creating an online persona and how it ...

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“We’re probably about five years into a 30-year cycle of transformation. … But there is simply no doubt that 25 years from now, when people reflect on the seminal changes of the early days of the century we are about ...

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For many lawyers, one of the greatest deterrents to interacting online is a mistaken impression that online networking is a purely “social” endeavor. After all, as a profession, lawyers tend to take themselves very seriously, and socializing most certainly is ...

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I have worked with a few solo practitioners recently who have all commented about the same thing – that their companies’ Web sites look dated.  Merely having a Web site a decade ago was enough to be on the cutting ...

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The software provider that fills up attorneys’ inboxes with e-mail alerts from federal court officials has purchased a social networking outfit. Skip the weekend party pictures, though. This site, www.govloop.com, seeks to connect court, state, local and federal government employees ...

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Lori Drew now can officially quit worrying about her conviction in a MySpace case. Drew was convicted following the suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier of Dardenne Prairie. Megan killed herself after receiving harassing messages from a fictitious teenage boy on ...

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Online interaction is now commonplace. Networking sites, including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, are becoming mainstream. Opportunities for attorneys to connect and interact with potential clients are endless. Before jumping on the “social media” bandwagon, however, there are a few important ...

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