Today, AT&T made a major announcement: that it will invest more than a half-billion dollars over the next decade to purchase more than 15,000 alternative-fueled vehicles — 8,000 vans powered by compressed natural gas, and another 7,100 hybrid passenger cars. The telecommunications giant estima...

One of the things that I try to remind my students (and myself at times!) is that you can practice yoga anywhere (even if you only have 5 free minutes) -- in the check-out line of the supermarket, on a train, in a plane, in the car -- even on the couch. Yes, that's right -- the couch. Look at it as ...

Like all good discussions, starts with a seemingly simple yet deep questionThoughts on a combined Service Catalog Are there good examples of a catalog which serves as a Product Catalog for external customers and a Service Catalog for internal customers? Eleven responses later... some new views emerg...

I too received the comment to which Dave responded. And, I too, promised to say a little bit about the state of the legal job market. Although I think Dave is correct that many others write about this issue quite well, I also note that we have posted several pieces about legal education and shifts i...

The needs of elderly patients can vary from a physical handicap, such as being hard of hearing, to becoming overwhelmed with medical information or even forgetting what the doctor has said about their health. Physicians and medical staff (including those at the front desk) may hold a special place i...

Although it came highly recommended there were a number of things that I found didn’t resonate for me in Deconstructing the First Year: How Law School Experiences Lead to Misunderstandings of What Lawyers Do at the blog called “clinicians with not enough to do.” I do think almost a...

A commentator to another thread chided me for our blog's relative lack of focus on the rapidly imploding law employment market. We have given sporadic attention to this topic since the pace of law firm layoffs has accelerated. Instead, as the commentator noted, we've been generally focused on our us...

We recently caught up with the Chief Executive of Aspire, Brian Carlin, who let us know how encouraging supporters to use Justgiving has “resulted in a massive increase in the amount of money coming in, and donations have come in more efficiently and considerably earlier than in previous years...

Steve Rachui has a great post on an issue he ran into using a couple deployment packs from IBM and Dell.  He includes his resolution as well so if you’re using any of these you might want to check this out: OEMs (currently Dell and IBM) provide deployment packs that plug into the OSD feature ...

My colleagues and I all agree that if the front desk doesn’t collect the copay at the time of the visit, you’ll be hard-pressed to ever see that payment. If you don’t get the copay by the end of the visit, you have about a 1-in-10 chance that you’ll ever collect that money. By the time you d...