Chuck Newton

Now Even Begging For Change Goes High Tech

There are still lawyers that refuse to use email in their practices, or to do their banking online. However, now we have the invention of Don-8r to replace panhandlers on the street.

Pronounced "donator", the computer is programmed expressly to collect change and be adorable.

The coin-fueled robot was created by the University of Dundee student Tim Pryde to help raise money for charity.

Pretty Much Describes Most Law Firms

 

(Video) 5 Gadgets The iPad Has Killed?

Enjoy the CNET video below concerning a poll in which iPad owners state what they can live without now that they own an iPad. You will notice I placed this video under category of "fun and humor" because although I think that tablets will eventually revolutionize the tech market, there is a lot of evolution that needs to take place before that happens. What I tend to love about Apple Kool-Aid drinkers is that these are the same people that must have believed in Obama or the Tea Party. They just want to believe so badly that they project their hopes and dreams on the product whether deserved or, for that matter, factual. They tend to check reality at the door.

Communication Skills

(VIDEO) Apple's New Friend Bar

New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products

Summer Is Over. Now Can All Of The Lawyers Get Back To Work?

I feel like most attorneys took the entire summer off of work. At least most only pretended to work. Can we all now get back to real life?

How To React To A Controversial Judicial Ruling

This was posted on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, but admittedly I found it on Luke Gilman: Life & Law.

Welcome Back To The Bush Tax Cuts

The argument is that ending the tax breaks will cause the rich not to hire more employees.  But, has anybody bothered to think that hiring and paying an employee is a non-taxable event for the employer.

 

Personalized Justice

 

Top 10 Law School Websites

Finally, a school ranking system that probably means something in this high tech, information society of ours.

Roger Skalbeck, the associate law librarian at Georgetown University Law Center did a detail analysis of each of the home pages of America's law schools and ranked the law school according to who has the best website.  You can review the criteria and the evaluation for yourself, but here are the top 10 law schools -

1.    George Mason University School of Law

2.    University of Virginia School of Law

3.    Wayne State University Law School

4.    University of Washington School of Law

5.    Harvard Law School

6.    Regent University School of Law

7.    Loyola University of Chicago School of Law

8.    University of Notre Dame Law School

9.    University of Illinois College of Law

10.    Washburn University School of Law