From sole practitioner to a large, multi-city law firm, just about every lawyer is always looking for ways to bring in new business or continue with good clients.  First, a primer from those legal marketing gurus at The Rainmaker Institute: Now. let’s identify and resolve several common challenges to achieving your firm’s elevated financial objectives: Challenge 1:  Legal advertising rules are so onerous (especially in NYS) as to make almost all legal marketing ads appear the sam... Read Full Story

We’re taking a moment to mourn the victims of the horrrific Metro train crash this week.  Unnervingly prescient, in last week’s Bulletin, I outlined the safest seats on trains, planes and cruise ships as our vacation season takes off.  Please re-read that issue before you and your family travel. Every year, at  the end of June/beginning of July we post the pool safety rules and regs.  It takes a split second for a child to be serious injured or worse in a pool.  Pools are supposed... Read Full Story

In sticking with the vacation theme of the past several posts, we’ve rounded up statistics regarding travel safety. The safest seat on a: Railroad Passenger Train:  Is any one outside of the train.  Seriously, a car or two ahead of the rear car.  According to the U.S. government’s transportation accident review authority, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), a  majority [...] Read Full Story

As many of  you already know, starting this week, by popular demand, the Beacon Bulletin will now be published each Wednesday! We take our readers requests seriously, and the majority asked for a day in the week when they can better focus and appreciate the information we dispense. Your wish is our command – Wednesday it is.  [...] Read Full Story

With the rise in the prices of airline travel, hotel stay rates and means of  local travel (cars, mini bus…), many Americans have decided to remain in-country and enjoy “stay-cations”; touring the wonderful sites across the United States instead. As we travel around our great country, we are going to meet people of varied backgrounds, mannerisms and in some cases, physical differences.  Our focus today is on communicating with deaf people.    According to the NCHS (National ... Read Full Story

Many of us lead incredibly complex lives, with full, active schedules.   While our priorities shift, often hourly; our children remain our first concern.  That parental concern is often in competition with rapid technological advances in combination with constantly evolving “netspeak”.  Every generation (and every 1/4 generation now) has developed and communicated in a secret tongue (necessary to better navigate among peers) of its own.  Today’s netspeak has advanced to what... Read Full Story

Thank you to all who have served and those that do. Memorial Day FAQs: - Memorial Day commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. - The first Memorial Day observance was on May 1, 1865. - In 1971, federal law changed the commeration date  from the traditional May 30 observance to the last Monday in May. - The official birthplace of Memorial Day is Waterloo, New York. - Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day. Have a safe, healthy and peaceful Memorial ... Read Full Story

From our friend, Stu:                         “50% of all marriages in America end in divorce.” That oft-repeated statement hides the factors involved in divorce: age, first marriage v. third marriage, having children v. being childless…  Below are the real stats, delivered by divorce.org,  behind that quote:  Age at marriage for those who divorce in America Age Women Men Under 20 years old 27.6% 11.7% 20 to 24 years old 36.6% 38.8% 25 to 29 years old 16.4% 22.3% ... Read Full Story

Representing Manhattan:   Manhattan Traffic Cameras   Streaming Video Camera Locations           2 Ave @ 36 St-Midtown Tunnel     2 Ave @ QBB (btwn 59 & 60 Street)     5 Ave @ 42 Street     6 Ave @ 34 Street     8 Ave @ Columbus Cr     Amsterdam Ave @ 178 Street     Bowery @ Canal Street     Broadway @ 46 Street     Brooklyn Bridge @ Centre Street     FDR DR @ Catherine St     <!–    –>   Still Image Camera ... Read Full Story

  A. Tickets purchased. B. Valid (unexpired) passport and International Driver’s Permit in hand. C. Overseas Crime Victim checklist reviewed. No Plan C? Millions of Americans travel overseas each year. Relatively minor inconveniences (lost luggage,  boarding delays, hotel accommodation screw-ups…) are generally viewed as part and parcel of the travel experience; becoming a victim of a crime in an unfamiliar environment is not.  As we become a more mobile and global society, we ne... Read Full Story