ABA Law Practice Management - Fall Meeting on Marketing and Technology
Hi Friends,
I went to the ABA Law Practice Management Section's Fall Meeting on Marketing and Technology in Philadelphia, and gave my 20 minute run through on search engine optimization (keywords, optimized home page, site map, title tags, links in open directory - you can read more in the Justia SEO Center or in this blog).
Fran Musselman of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, was presented with he Sam Smith Award for lifetime achievement in law practice management. Read more about Fran and his speech on Ed Poll's LawBiz Blog.
Micah Buchdahl of High-Tech Marketing for Lawyers (http://www.htmlawyers.com) and I discuss world peace.
Here is the Liberty Bell - it is what Philadelphia is all about.
There were a lot of great talks. I am sure that if you missed them, that some will be coming again to a conference near you :)
Peace - Tim
:: Sailing to Philadelphia, Sailing to Philadelphia by Mark Knopfler
Florida Personal Injury Lawyer and Medical Malpractice Attorney Settlement Resources
The Florida Department of Health offers Florida patients, personal injury lawyers and medical malpractice attorneys a valuable online tool for evaluating the background of a Florida health care provider. The Department of Health's Florida Medical License Search allows users to locate information about a health care provider by name, profession, location or license number. For example, a Miami Personal Injury Lawyer might request the record of a Medical Doctor in Dade County.

Once you click on a record, you need to click on the Practitioner Profile tab and then the Proceedings and Actions tab to view the health care provider's disciplinary and liability claims history.

Another useful web site is the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. This web site provides information on medical professional liability (MPL) claims. For example, you can search for claims by Insurer Name, Doctor Name, County Injury Occurred In, Severity of Injury, and Indemnity Paid, among other fields.
So, a Miami Medical Malpractice Lawyer can locate all claims where the County Injury Occurred In is Dade and where the Indemnity Paid is at least $5,000,000. The web site returned 3 matching results.

If you click on a claim, you can review its details, including Insurer Information, Insured Information, Insured Person Information, Diagnostic Information, Legal Information and Financial Information.

Both of these web sites should prove to be a valuable resource for Florida patients, personal injury lawyers and medical malpractice attorneys.
Justia Launches Free US Supreme Court Decisions on First Monday with Oyez and US Court Forms
Well, the first Monday of October has finally arrived and changes are already afoot. The US Supreme Court returned from its summer recess and welcomed a new Chief Justice to the helm. With the nation's air waves abuzz this morning over President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers, it seems that the Washington's attention has been focused on the Supreme Court as of late. Our focus has been on the US Supreme Court as well, but for entirely different reasons.
Today, Justia, Oyez and US Court Forms are proud to release the first beta version of our new US Supreme Court Center. Many features are still under development, but the center does include all US Supreme Court decisions since volume one (1).
You can visit the new center at http://www.Justia.us
This site is meant to complement the multimedia materials developed by Northwestern Professor Jerry Goldman's Oyez project. We have also provided links to Supreme Court current awareness information from On the Docket by Northwestern Journalism Professor Jack Doppelt, as well as selected Supreme Court and Constitutional Rights Blogs on the Web.
We will be fixing and improving the interface of the center in the next few days/weeks/months, and will also be adding and incorporating additional US Constitutional and Supreme Court content and community features. But we wanted something up this Monday, so the beta is officially launched. And we had two hours to spare :)
Thanks to Oyez and US Court Forms.

