The Importance of the Right E-mail Address

August 14, 2009

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How important is a lawyer’s e-mail address? To what extent can it be a source of good or bad PR? Across the pond Doug Cornelius of Compliance Building kicked off the debate with a tweet (how else?) saying: “If your lawyer’s email address ends in hotmail.com, gmail.com or yahoo.com (or aol.com), find a new lawyer.” The question has since been discussed on Legal Blog Watch, with varying shades of opinion chipping in. Some people say that first impressions do matter and that law firms really ought to have their own domains and associated whizzy e-mail addresses, while others say that it’s the service that counts and that their integrity outweighs mere cosmetics.

Here’s what we think. If you’re about to go into practice whether with colleagues or alone (Ed’s Note: as if. The days of the sole practitioner are numbered.) you should make the investment and secure you own professional and appropriate domain. Anything else in the internet age is amateurish. If, however, you’ve built up a client base via a good old AOL or similar account, why change anything? You already have goodwill and if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Image courtesy of www.internet-guide.co.uk.

 

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Supreme Court on Twitter

February 6, 2012

Something remarkable happened today. Yes, the Supreme Court launched its Twitter feed. It even has a Twitter policy, one of caveats, disclaimers and little by way of illumination but regardless: who would have thought that the successor body to the House of Lords would stoop to engage with the world of tweets, hashtags and retweets?

We look forward to the day when court business will be conducted via Twitter. Meantime, check out this link for an excellent blog on the Supreme Court.

Not so right said Fred

February 2, 2012
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So Farewell, then, Sir Fred Goodwin.

Now you are just Fred.

Not Right Said Fred, but plain Fred.

The Forfeiture Committee did for you.

No one had heard of it before,

But Dave said it had to act, and it did.

Trouble is that no one knows what to think.

Is it ‘Alas, poor Fred‘,

Or ‘Hurray! Sir Fred is dead!’?

We don’t know.

Do you?

By A. Mob, aged 1,378 and a half.

London Goes AWOL

January 31, 2012
CNN

STOP PRESS:

Fed up with being stuck on the Thames in south-east England, London yesterday decided to move. In a dramatic gesture which augurs ill for the Olympics, the city upped sticks and relocated to East Anglia.

Lawyers were not consulted about the move, and the city’s precise motivation remains unclear. However, financiers fear that London’s decision is a sign that it wishes to downsize. Moreover, a source from London said: “We no longer want to be Britain’s seat of power. If the Scots can deregulate, why can’t we? East Anglia is a nice place where nothing happens. It’s time for a quiet life. Please respect our right to privacy.”

Elsewhere, Birmingham did not do anything, but Manchester was seen to be packing its bags. “There’s an opportunity for us,” said Manchester. “We can become London.”

East Anglia said: “We don’t mind. It’ll be refreshing to be associated with something other than fens and flatness.”

A cartologist at CNN, which broke the extraordinary news, was later fired.