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Permit Me My Vices - I Only Get One Life.

After a certain age, when you are relatively certain you are past your expiration date, the pleas of those who think they know how to live your life better than you tend to fall on deaf ears. Hey, I know that smoking is not the healthiest option, even if I don't inhale. (Thanks, Bill). But, don't you have enough of a job policing your own vices? Mark Twain was very good at gently poking fun at the life police. I echo his sentiments. I am old. I am beyond your petty efforts to tell me how to live my life.

Why Won't This Parrot Play With Me?

If Only We All Could Afford To Own And Drive Electric Cars.

High gas prices got you down? Buy an electric car.

The Good Old Days, Before Internet Banking.

No worries, Dad. Just use your Debit Card!

CenterCam Is My New Favorite WebCam.

www.centercam.com . I like CenterCam so much, I ordered a second one for my home screen. If I need one while traveling in the RV, it just unplugs from a USB port, and folds into the briefcase or computer case. This image is what you will see if you call the FutureLawyer. The beach background is whimsical, and I would use a blurred or office background for official business. But, suffice it to say that this thing makes video conferencing an eye to eye experience, and I don't feel like my correspondent is looking at me staring up at the ceiling or left or right. This is an elegant solution to a real problem.

 

I Wish I Had A Dollar...

for every time I have responded to a client with: "I'm a lawyer, not a magician". Although, what I do is sometimes indistinguishable from magic. I just don't guarantee it.

 

 

Waiting Room.

He didn’t like hospitals.

Imposing buildings filled with humans

who cared.

They were surrounded by suffering;

but, they didn’t know anything.

The buildings were strong and tall.

What did they hide inside?

He got up from the sterile chair.

He walked on the carpeted floors.

He looked for more comfortable furniture.

He wasn’t calmed by the soothing music.

The waiting room felt like a furniture store,

trying vainly to look like a home.

The nurses and doctors looked like aliens.

He was in a landscape populated by green gowns

and white masks.

The metal jewelry hung from their necks.

Every now and then someone screamed like a sailor,

trying to keep calm

in a storm.

He heard the disembodied voices coming from loudspeakers.

They gave instructions to strangers,

whose lives hung in the balance.

He told himself that this elaborate show

was a necessary preparation

for the inevitable.

He tried to remember his mantra

that we all die.

Instead, he only remembered

that he was in a hospital

and he didn’t know

whether she would ever come out again.

Of Course I Will Spend Hours Of My Life Working For You For Free...

I would be happy to contribute my services to you. I can even give you a time when that will happen. See that Pig sculpture on my desk? See the wings? See this photo of a Florida Gator in flight over the pond? When those things happen, I will work for you for free. Really. It could happen. Not probable. But, it could happen.

Do You Know Where Your Email Is Going?

All of us need to refresh our computer security skills from time to time. From mis-directed faxes to failing to vet discovery production carefully, lawyers' errors can be expensive. In the recent Alex Jones trial, his lawyers erroneously sent the entire contents of his phone's email and texts, which resulted in a devastation cross examination by the opponent. Lawyers, in particular, need to be thinking about security all the time. Replying to an email carries its own risks. First rule, set the default to reply only to the sender. Then, in order to reply to everyone in the chain, a specific choice must be made. Second rule, never send an email while angry or emotional. Don't use email as a place to vent your frustrations with clients, opponents, courts or anyone else. Be careful out there.

Remote Online Notary - RON Is A Thing.

The FutureLawyer is now a licensed online Notary, and a member of notaryfix.com, which specializes in bringing RON to law offices, and is based in Florida. It completes the package for any law office that wants to offer complete document services, regardless of physical location. After learning how to use Docusign, for online document signatures, and Simplifile, for online document recording, it allows me to notarize documents for clients anywhere, and NotaryFix provides the platform for the signer to establish their identity and to make the video call necessary for me to conduct the signing. The world is moving online, and we lawyers are going to have to go along for the ride. Are you ready? This business certainly is. Hmmm...I wonder if I could be the first lawyer/notary to conduct an online notary session on a smartphone while paddling a canoe?