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How Safe is Your Money? If You’re Banking Online…

This week’s focus on online banking came about as an article topic via a close BNI friend, Dan Tuczinski, of Tuczinski, Cavalier, Gilchrist & Collura (www.tcgclegal.com). Online banking is fantastic for those pressed for time, which would be every attorney client we know. The common features that every online banking institution offers are: * Transactional- [...]

How Not To Commit A Misdemeanor While Process Serving

Subsequent to conducting a locate (and they can be as easy as the one in the above vid!) and confirming the subject’s address: the service of process begins. Service of process is the procedure employed to give legal notice to a person (defendant etc.) of a court or administrative body’s exercise of its jurisdiction over [...]

The Beacon Bulletin: Your Firm’s Email and YouTube: Computer Forensics 101

This Week; Focus On: Recovering Your Firm’s Email: Computer Forensics 101 Email originating from your firm’s computer is at once your property and your liability. An employee may think it amusing to YouTube a hilarious water cooler moment or participate in an intra-industry user generated site to discuss work issues or situations. A routine sweep, [...]

7 Investigative Trends for ’07

7 Investigative Trends For ’07 To best serve the quickly evolving informational needs of the trial law community, today’s investigator must have broad technical and up to date operational skills. The following 2007 trends list was compiled after analyzing the past several years of client service and data requests. Identity theft research. Aside from preventing [...]

Focus On: Aftermarket Vehicle Modifications

While generally encouraged, this individualism can result in serious or fatal injury to oneself and others in the aftermarket vehicle modifications market. Drivers  make after-market adaptations to their cars, without regard for the laws or vehicle safety regulations and, all too often, lack the knowledge or anticipation of the consequences of these enhancements. Sometimes the modifications [...]

Property Sharks!

Go here www.propertysharks.com ! This little gem of a site offers the most detailed nationwide property information we’ve seen in a while. As with any recommendation, we’ve tested it extensively and found that their data holds up to official property records. Property Shark reports offer: A – Overview – to include block, lot, property address(es), [...]

Is Your Tenant Sharing Fairly? Landlord/Tenant Rights and MVAs

This week’s Bulletin focuses on a specific landlord/tenant issue and that being apartment sharing. Understandably, landlords can become upset when the named lessee is not the only resident of the designated apartment. Under NYS Real Property Law §235-f), however, other occupants, as described below, can legally reside with the lessee. (The landlord is entitled however [...]

Stay One Step Ahead of Your Identity Thief – Part II

As we reported last week, the fastest growing crime in the world today isidentity theft. This week, in the second and final part of our identity theft coverage, weoffer suggestions to reduce the odds of becoming an identity theft victim:1. Use a check card, not checks, for public purchases. 2. Have your home mail delivered [...]

Down A Slippery Slope: The Scaffold Law

Fact: 65% of the construction industry works on scaffolds, lifts, hoists or ladders.The past several weeks have brought tragic news to New Yorkers in the number of scaffold deaths and serious injuries occurring within the State. Simultaneously, there has been heightened political pressure to change the “Scaffold Law”. Its opponents feel its broad interpretation by [...]

The Pedal Was Stuck, I Swear: Defective Product Cases

Oftentimes when people get into accidents that involve defective products, they are injured and shocked and delay filing a case. While it is certainly understandable that certain personal injuries can cause a filing delay, one just needs to remember that the company one plans to sue is already one, if not two, steps ahead. A [...]

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