Short URLs

December 31st, 1969

Making life easier for phone calls with clients. We registered a new domain name: rlaw1.com. It’s quicker to tell them that than redlichlaw.com. And the rlaw1.com domain just redirects to our traffic page.

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Garage Party - A Fun Way to Reduce DWI

December 31st, 1969

We had a garage party last night. With all the DWI cases I handle where people had a few drinks and then drove home, this idea came to me. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could go somewhere, have a few drinks, and not worry about driving home?There’s more to this. First, one of the motivators was that we now have a refrigerator in our garage. We bought new appliances. While we got rid of the others,

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Guest Blogger

December 31st, 1969

Happy to have a guest blogger on our blog. My associate David Cooper is now contributing. His first blog post is on suspended licenses.

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Suspended License: Why you should care and act quickly

December 31st, 1969

Why should you care? If you are driving in New York State and you have forgotten to answer a ticket or never heard back from the court you may be suspended. If your license or privilege to drive (for out-of-state drivers) in New York is suspended and you are stopped while driving in New York, there is a very good chance you will be charged with a crime, known as Aggravated Unlicensed Operation in

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Why shouldn’t I hire a lawyer to beat my ticket?

December 31st, 1969

Saw something on the web that got me laughing. Back in ‘05 I did a post about lawyer marketing on the web. I critiqued some websites that claimed to help people with their tickets.Well, someone from speedticketbeaters -dot- com tried to post a comment on that old blog post. I don’t allow these sites to promote themselves through my blog. But it was funny. The comment asserted, among other things,

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Drunk Driving articles in the Wall Street Journal

December 31st, 1969

Two good articles in the Wall Street Journal this week.Yesterday there was a discussion of drunk driver data by The Numbers Guy - Carl Bialik. It talks about statistics on the risks of driving at varying blood-alcohol content (BAC) levels. Bialik briefly mentions flaws in breath testing. Hopefully he’ll do a more complete discussion in the future. The day before there was an article, Drunk

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County Court update

December 31st, 1969

A new milestone for our court directory - we now have 6000 courts in our database - see below.There’s about 1500 in NY; 240 in CA; about 200 in the New England states (MA, CT, RI, VT and NH - we haven’t done Maine yet); 600 in NJ; 168 in FL; GA has 500 and we’re still adding more; 132 in Illinois; nearly 300 between MD, VA and DC; 220 in NC; roughly 600 apiece in Ohio and PA; and there’s

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New York Speeding Ticket - Piece by Piece

December 31st, 1969

We added a new page to our website with a breakdown of a typical New York speeding ticket. Please post any comments or suggestions on this blog post.

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Lawyer Websites and Spelling

December 31st, 1969

I was just looking at a lawyer website and it some animated graphics. Below is an image I clipped from the animation.Maybe it’s just me, but I think clients are a bit less likely to hire a lawyer who spells poorly. Click on the image below and it should enlarge a bit and be easier to read. The key words should be “traffic” and “rights”.

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Advanta and Credit Card Woes

December 31st, 1969

We’ve been using an Advanta MasterCard for our business for several years now. So today I get an e-mail that they’re canceling all their credit card accounts - in four days. Thanks for giving me time to get a new card.Apparently we have not been like their typical customer. We paid our bills on time consistently. This article in Consumerist says that they had a 20% default rate. Hmm … maybe we

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