• Free California Mechanics Lien and 20-Day Preliminary Notice Forms

    Updated: 2012-05-22 15:30:01
    Home Authors File A Lien Contact Archives Construction Mechanics Lien Blog Subscribe to our blog posts Free California Mechanics Lien and 20-Day Preliminary Notice Forms Free California Mechanics Lien and 20-Day Preliminary Notice Forms On May 22, 2012 By Scott Wolfe Jr Email This Comments Print Trackbacks Here are a few California forms that are helpful to anyone furnishing materials , labor or services to construction projects in that state , as well as a description of each . All forms are provided subject to Zlien’s terms of use These forms relate only to private projects in the state of . California Free California Mechanics Lien Forms For Download Claim of Lien Mechanics Lien When unpaid on a construction project in California , parties may file a mechanics lien against the property

  • NEW: Set Up Multiple Locations and Logins In Zlien’s LienPilot

    Updated: 2012-05-19 16:30:04
    Home Authors File A Lien Contact Archives Construction Mechanics Lien Blog Subscribe to our blog posts NEW : Set Up Multiple Locations and Logins In Zlien’s LienPilot NEW : Set Up Multiple Locations and Logins In Zlien’s LienPilot On May 19, 2012 By Scott Wolfe Jr Email This Comments Print Trackbacks A few months ago , we quietly updated the LienPilot to allow users to set up Locations” within their LienPilot account , and thereby order mechanics liens , preliminary notices and other documents from different office branches or even under different entity names . A support article explaining how to set up Locations or Alternative Business Names is available on our Knowledge . Base Last month we made another quite update to the industry leading mechanics lien and bond claim management

  • Another Notch In Bloomberg's Belt: Jones Day

    Updated: 2012-05-17 20:26:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar 3 Geeks and a Law Blog A law blog addressing the foci of 3 intrepid law geeks , specializing in their respective fields of knowledge management , internet marketing and library sciences , melding together to form the Dynamic . Trio Pages Home About the 3 Geeks News Events 5 17 12 Another Notch In Bloomberg's Belt : Jones Day Just got a press release from Jill Goodkind at Bloomberg announcing that Jones Day has brought them into the fold for their legal research needs . This is the second mega firm that is using Bloomberg DLA Piper being the other . We're trying to gather more details , such as did Jones Day drop Westlaw or Lexis to bring in Bloomberg but I thought this was big enough to push out to let everyone know the . news Those that I've talked to find

  • Can California Mechanic Liens Be Enforced In Small Claims Court?

    Updated: 2012-05-17 19:45:31
    Home Authors File A Lien Contact Archives Construction Mechanics Lien Blog Subscribe to our blog posts Can California Mechanic Liens Be Enforced In Small Claims Court Can California Mechanic Liens Be Enforced In Small Claims Court On May 17, 2012 By Scott Wolfe Jr Email This Comments Print Trackbacks The answer : No It doesn’t matter whether your mechanics lien claim is for just 300, the small claims courts in California and most everywhere else simply do not have the jurisdiction to enforce mechanic lien claims This fact is unfortunate for a lot of California mechanics lien claimants , because the costs of proceeding in Superior Court can be expensive . Not only are the filing fees higher , but if you’re a business entity , you may also be restricted from representing yourself and

  • New York Bill Proposes Additional Protection to Homeowners Against Mechanic Liens

    Updated: 2012-05-16 17:38:20
    Home Authors File A Lien Contact Archives Construction Mechanics Lien Blog Subscribe to our blog posts New York Bill Proposes Additional Protection to Homeowners Against Mechanic Liens New York Bill Proposes Additional Protection to Homeowners Against Mechanic Liens On May 16, 2012 By Scott Wolfe Jr Email This Comments Print Trackbacks New York Assembly Bill 105 proposes to change the state’s mechanics lien laws to provide more protections to homeowners against mechanic lien filings , and therefore , further water down the contractor and suppliers rights to file a mechanics lien against an owner-occupied residential . project Under pressure from homeowners who get tagged with a mechanics lien after probably irresponsibility paying a prime contractor a lot of states seem to be proposing

  • Creating a Disruptive Innovation - Disrupt Your Own Beliefs First

    Updated: 2012-05-16 15:25:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar 3 Geeks and a Law Blog A law blog addressing the foci of 3 intrepid law geeks , specializing in their respective fields of knowledge management , internet marketing and library sciences , melding together to form the Dynamic . Trio Pages Home About the 3 Geeks News Events 5 16 12 Creating a Disruptive Innovation Disrupt Your Own Beliefs First Image cc neonbubble When reading a Harvard Business Review HBR article by James Allworth called Empathy : The Most Valuable Thing They Teach at HBS there was a line at the end that really stood out to : me this story seems to repeat itself over and over for disrupted companies : they go out of business wanting to sell to customers what they want to sell to customers , rather than what customers want to . buy Allworth was

  • The Next Generation of Computers Practicing Law

    Updated: 2012-05-14 10:00:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar 3 Geeks and a Law Blog A law blog addressing the foci of 3 intrepid law geeks , specializing in their respective fields of knowledge management , internet marketing and library sciences , melding together to form the Dynamic . Trio Pages Home About the 3 Geeks News Events 5 14 12 The Next Generation of Computers Practicing Law Image cc estudioquimbya Last weeks's post from Toby on The First Time I Saw a Computer Practice Law jogged my mind of my recent trip to Georgetown Law School and talking to Roger Skalbeck about assigning his class called Technology , Innovation and Law Practice . The major assignment for the class was to create an application that could be used in the practice of law . At the end of the course , there was a competition called The Iron

  • Do Software Patents Stifle Innovation?

    Updated: 2012-05-12 14:00:00
    Of late patents around mobile technologies have been in the news. Four high profile news items are (1) Oracle suing Google for Java patent violation, (2) Apple and Samsung fighting each other in different parts of the world, Microsoft, Apple, Rim and others jointly buying Nortel patent library for $4.5 billion and (4) Google buys Motorola Mobile and gets 17,000 patents. This is only the tip of the iceberg. This diagram from Reuters shows the complex battlefield of mobile patent and significant portion of these patents are for software.read more

  • Thinking about What Makes a Blog a Blog

    Updated: 2012-05-11 19:45:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar 3 Geeks and a Law Blog A law blog addressing the foci of 3 intrepid law geeks , specializing in their respective fields of knowledge management , internet marketing and library sciences , melding together to form the Dynamic . Trio Pages Home About the 3 Geeks News Events 5 11 12 Thinking about What Makes a Blog a Blog I was recently discussing with someone what exactly makes a blog a . blog Is it the interactivity , the commenting , the archiving Perhaps the cloud tags , the permalinks or the reverse-chronological order In my mind , all of these elements are not only optional but also secondary to the most critical aspect of a blog : . RSS Most of you know what RSS means : real simple syndication . This is code that is embedded into a web page and not

  • Beating a Dead Dewey Horse

    Updated: 2012-05-09 10:00:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar 3 Geeks and a Law Blog A law blog addressing the foci of 3 intrepid law geeks , specializing in their respective fields of knowledge management , internet marketing and library sciences , melding together to form the Dynamic . Trio Pages Home About the 3 Geeks News Events 5 9 12 Beating a Dead Dewey Horse Image cc lightsight Although more than enough has been written about the impending demise of Dewey and the relative causes , I decided to go ahead and add my 2 cents to the dialog . nbsp A recent blog post on the subject caught my eye . It made the assertion that , Whether it’s Davis’s earlier 10-to-1 spread , the more recently reported 20-to-1,” or something in between , the income gap within equity partnerships has exploded throughout big law . That’s

  • Visualizing the Dewey & LeBoeuf Implosion

    Updated: 2012-05-08 20:40:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar 3 Geeks and a Law Blog A law blog addressing the foci of 3 intrepid law geeks , specializing in their respective fields of knowledge management , internet marketing and library sciences , melding together to form the Dynamic . Trio Pages Home About the 3 Geeks News Events 5 8 12 Visualizing the Dewey LeBoeuf Implosion I saw an interesting visual of where all the Dewey LeBoeuf partners went on a Thomson Reuters' site earlier today . The graphic illustrates the firms that picked up the laterals , the names of the lateral partners , and their practice areas . The Dewey situation has been like watching a train slowly wreck , day after day , for about four months now . The visualization helps to see where everyone is going , and what practice areas are . affected

  • Endless Summers ... or How to Spend Less Money on Technology

    Updated: 2012-05-04 18:04:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar 3 Geeks and a Law Blog A law blog addressing the foci of 3 intrepid law geeks , specializing in their respective fields of knowledge management , internet marketing and library sciences , melding together to form the Dynamic . Trio Pages Home About the 3 Geeks News Events 5 4 12 Endless Summers or How to Spend Less Money on Technology Ernie Salazar , 1940-1984 One of my best memories of my dad was from the summer he told us he wasn't going to fix the . TV It had broken at the end of the school year when I was 13. The horror--it was 1975 and , in those days , all we had to look forward to was a summer full of re-runs from the 3 major TV . stations Instead , he said , we were going to play outside , play games or match wits with him . Ack A major nerd , he wore

  • What's a Law Librarian To Do? A Response to "Empty Shelves" Photo Contest

    Updated: 2012-05-04 15:14:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar 3 Geeks and a Law Blog A law blog addressing the foci of 3 intrepid law geeks , specializing in their respective fields of knowledge management , internet marketing and library sciences , melding together to form the Dynamic . Trio Pages Home About the 3 Geeks News Events 5 4 12 What's a Law Librarian To Do A Response to Empty Shelves Photo Contest If only I had an empty shelves photo to submit . But alas , in this regard my law firm library is way ahead of the curve , as we shed hundreds of books several years ago , and I did not take pictures of those empty . shelves I agree with the suggestion in the Shed West Era Photo Wins AALL's Day in the Life Contest and a call for more empty stacks photos Law Librarian Blog post that the trend to eliminate

  • Greetings Texas Firms – From Axiom

    Updated: 2012-05-02 20:24:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar 3 Geeks and a Law Blog A law blog addressing the foci of 3 intrepid law geeks , specializing in their respective fields of knowledge management , internet marketing and library sciences , melding together to form the Dynamic . Trio Pages Home About the 3 Geeks News Events 5 2 12 Greetings Texas Firms From Axiom Based on some job ads we have recently seen , it appears Axiom is establishing a presence in Texas . Axiom , as you may recall , is an alternative provider of legal-type services and new breed of competitor to law firms . They have a very interesting business model and have been quite successful in other . markets Texas firms would be wise to add Axiom to their list of competitors . Axiom provides long-term , temporary attorney placements within client

  • Attorney Biz Dev Book Review: The Associate As Rainmaker

    Updated: 2012-05-02 18:30:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar 3 Geeks and a Law Blog A law blog addressing the foci of 3 intrepid law geeks , specializing in their respective fields of knowledge management , internet marketing and library sciences , melding together to form the Dynamic . Trio Pages Home About the 3 Geeks News Events 5 2 12 Attorney Biz Dev Book Review : The Associate As Rainmaker I just finished reading David King Keller's The Associate as Rainmaker : Building Your Business Brain and I just want to tear it up--but I mean this in a GOOD . way Full of checklists and step-by-step guides on how to develop your own business development plan , the appendices alone are worth the 100 sticker . price By reading this book--with our without hiring a business coach--any associate would be able to lay out their

  • It's Time to Recognize Innovation

    Updated: 2012-05-01 19:34:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar 3 Geeks and a Law Blog A law blog addressing the foci of 3 intrepid law geeks , specializing in their respective fields of knowledge management , internet marketing and library sciences , melding together to form the Dynamic . Trio Pages Home About the 3 Geeks News Events 5 1 12 It's Time to Recognize Innovation We love to talk about innovation in the legal market on 3 Geeks . Whether its technology , new business models or even just new ways of thinking , we like to explore and share these ideas on 3 . Geeks Along that line of thinking , the College of Law Practice Management has now opened the door for the 2012 InnovAction Awards that recognize lawyers and firms actually putting this type of innovation in to . action The award : recognizes Originality : Is

  • Demand to see life's manager!

    Updated: 2012-05-01 00:31:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar 3 Geeks and a Law Blog A law blog addressing the foci of 3 intrepid law geeks , specializing in their respective fields of knowledge management , internet marketing and library sciences , melding together to form the Dynamic . Trio Pages Home About the 3 Geeks News Events 4 30 12 Demand to see life's manager I caught the article Why There Are No Bosses at Valve from BusinessWeek today . In my geeky household , developer Valve and their award-winning games Portal , Half-Life are very popular , but I never knew that their work environment is as innovative as their games . Of course now I can't stop thinking about working in a collaborative environment like this within a law . firm The company's employee handbook expressly addresses hierarchy and organizational

  • You Can't Cook With PowerPoint

    Updated: 2012-04-26 10:00:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar 3 Geeks and a Law Blog A law blog addressing the foci of 3 intrepid law geeks , specializing in their respective fields of knowledge management , internet marketing and library sciences , melding together to form the Dynamic . Trio Pages Home About the 3 Geeks News Events 4 26 12 You Can't Cook With PowerPoint I recently got the issue of Bloomberg Businessweek routed to me and was quite intrigued by many of the segments included in their Second Annual How To Issue an issue that the publisher describes as a cocktail party . that's all about the mix of guests . Although not all of the segments were relevant to the different roles I play within my firm , there were many that were , : including How To . Set Your Employees Free Negotiate Motivate People Make The

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