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We're pleased to announce the arrival of a new tool - JD Supra Docs - that streams legal documents and information posted on JD Supra to Facebook!

JD Supra to Facebook: Connect What You Know to Who You Know

JD Supra Docs allows any lawyer or legal professional publishing work on JD Supra to showcase their documents in Facebook. The application "installs instantly" (contributor Ron Coleman's words). Once done, all documents archived in your JD Supra profile are available - and easily viewable by your contacts - on Facebook.

Additionally, every time you post a new document on JD Supra it automatically streams to your Facebook profile. Every new doc also appears in your news feed and is announced in your friends' news feeds. From Doug Cornelius' news feed:

Full Feed, Mini Feed, Both?

JD Supra Docs allows you to choose how to present your documents to your friends, contacts, and colleagues on Facebook.

The full feed appears as a stand-alone tab on the Facebook profile, titled "My Docs." Friends who click the tab will see a complete archive of documents you have posted on JD Supra. Also available on this page: the information you maintain in your JD Supra "Professional Profile." See examples on Ron Coleman's Facebook profile:

The mini feed - streaming the last three docs you've uploaded - installs either on your "Wall" and "Info" tabs/pages, or within your "Boxes" tab. Your choice. Nicole Black's mini feed:

We recommend installing both feeds - consider the mini a place to announce your latest uploads, the full feed as your complete archive.

JD Supra Docs is free; it only requires a presence on both JD Supra and Facebook. If you're already  publishing on JD Supra, simply install the app and your accounts will be tethered. The next time you share legal work on JD Supra, it will automatically stream to Facebook.

If you don't yet have a JD Supra account, sign up now. And then connect to Facebook.

GIve Content. Get Noticed.

JD Supra believes that written work is one of the best examples of expertise and experience in field of practice.

This tool is the latest in a series of offerings that execute on our promise to distribute your work widely online, and allow you to showcase your talent not only to who you know, but also who you might know next...

For examples of the application in use, please connect with any of following JD Supra contributors; they've been kindly testing for us over the last few days. Thanks to: Nicole Black, Adrianos Facchetti, Rick Horowitz, Martha Sperry, Steve Silverberg, Elizabeth Lewis, Ron Coleman, Steve Matthews, Doug Cornelius, D. Todd Smith, David Leffler, Marc Stern, Lisa Solomon, and Josh Gilliland. (Simply search on their names in Facebook to connect.)

 JD Supra Docs Facebook application. Install it now!

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As follow-up to our recent list - Legal News Feeds on Twitter - here is an index of new Twitter accounts established specifically to stream legal documents posted on JD Supra.

These news feeds are also available in RSS and/or widget form:

- Legal Alerts - newsletters, articles, and alerts covering all legal subjects...

- The Global Financial Crisis - analysis and legal perspective to do with all aspects of the current financial crisis...

- Commercial Law - analysis & alerts covering developments in commercial law: securities, taxation, banking, antitrust, bankruptcy, and much more...

- Technology & Media - analysis & alerts covering legislation and developments in technology, media, and communications law...

- Environment & Energy - analysis & alerts covering legislation and developments in the areas of environment and energy...

- Law Practice - newsletters, articles, and thought-pieces published by legal professionals about issues, products, and services in legal practice...

- Hot Documents - a stream of filings and legal documents from new and noteworthy cases, shared by the lawyers and firms involved...

Many of these news feeds are, at time of writing, newly created. Check back soon for the next round, covering an even wider array of subjects and practice fields. (Incl. Labor & Employments, Securities, IP, Trusts & Estates, and more.)

Lawyers and legal professionals, if you have work that fits the feed, post it now:

Join JD Supra: showcase your expertise by sharing your written work online.

And everyone: follow the feeds!

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Lawyers and Legal Professionals on Twitter

Lawyers, law firms, legal professionals: we want to see your work. We're building a new section on JD Supra: a collection of analysis and perspective covering all legal aspects of the incoming Obama administration. We'd like you to participate.

What is your particular legal insight into the Obama administration's plans?

Are your sharing this information with your clients? Now publish it on JD Supra. We'll include your work in our upcoming resource: "Legal Analysis: The Obama Administration."

If you have a tax, bankruptcy, commercial finance, manufacturing, immigration, labor & employment, or other practice area that will be impacted by the new administration's policies, share your work with us now.

[See Legal Analysis: Financial Crisis for an example of how we treat the information.]

Historic Times

We have an incoming administration that intends to address the many historic crises we face, in large part, through major government reforms and intervention (aka legislation and regulation).

More people than ever (from CEOs to consumers to stay-at-home moms) are paying attention, looking for plain-English explanations about what the government is doing and how it might impact their lives and businesses.

Opportunity for the legal community to showcase expertise

Here is an opportunity to demonstrate value and expertise beyond the confines of a particular transaction or case.

Many legal marketers already recognize this. Their firms have been prolific producing up-to-the-minute analysis of, for example, the financial crisis as it relates to their fields of expertise. (And, there's an audience hungry for this information. Legal analysis to do with the financial crisis is so popular that we created a separate section on JD Supra to collect and feature it.)

Now we are doing the same with legal analysis and perspective to do with the Obama administration. All aspects.

In advance of the recent election, we received many insightful articles about the implications of either a McCain or Obama victory, which we listed in a blog post: Legal Perspectives: The US Election. Now, our contributors are starting to share some excellent, forward-looking analysis. For example:

• Obama Presidential Election Victory Could Lead to Dramatic Increase in Unionization of Employers in the U.S.
• New Administration Not Likely to Change Immigration Enforcement Strategy
• Preparing for Employment-Related Issues in a Down Economy and Under a Labor-Friendly Administration

And so begins our coverage of an historic turn of events around which legal professionals have much to offer. 

This is a golden opportunity to get noticed - don't let it pass you by.

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- Read All About It: JD Supra Unveils Comprehensive Repository...

We've compiled a list of some of the top trust and estate planning documents published on JD Supra by our contributors.

Topics are as varied as the lawyers who are sharing this work; but the documents included here all touch upon a vital aspect of this critically important legal issue.

Check back again, we'll be revisiting the list and adding other resources.

Reference: Top Trust & Estate Planning Documents

• Estate Plan Checklist - Steven Peck
• Sample Family Trust - Jim Bowman
• Partial Post Mortem Checklist - Stephen D Willey
• Keep the Government and Lawsuit-Happy Opportunists Away From Your Children's Inheritance - Alexis Martin Neely
• When Remarriage Muddies the Waters: QDRO's & Surviving Spouse Protection - Daniel N. Janich
• Grandma's Dating! Romance and the Revocable Living Trust - Darlynn Morgan
  
• Keeping the Money in the Family -  Priya Royal
• Intestacy -  Kenneth Vercammen
• Joint Trust Disadvantages - Dana Zivkovich Johnson
• Choosing a Guardian for Your Children - Kimbro Legal Services, LLC
• Estate Planning in the Face of Divorce: An Ounce of Prevention .... - Gary B. Freidman
• The Importance of Having a Power of Attorney Document - Patricia Bloom-McDonald
• Problems With Typical Revocable Living Trusts and Financial Durable Powers Of Attorney – And the New 70 -  Michael J. Young
• Bottom Fishing in Probate: What to do When the Claims Outweight the Assets - R. Scott Gardner
  
• Income Only Trust - Jacoby, Brimo, Hurd & Chase

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If you are a lawyer or firm with documents to contribute, jump onto JD Supra and share your work now. 

Lawyers frequently ask us this question. Our answer: share any legal documents that help to demonstrate your experience and expertise.

JD Supra hosts filings and decisions in cases of national significance (as well as legal alerts and articles created by attorneys at some of the most prestigious firms), but neither situation is a requirement for a legal professional interested in participating on the site.

Our collection of legal documents is as varied as the group of professionals contributing to it.

Here are diverse examples of quality written work shared on JD Supra that have generated lots of views (and, as a consequence, exposure) for their contributors:

[One document listed here has received more views than any other on JD Supra - including the petition to cancel Facebook's Trademark. Can you guess which it is? Answer below*.]

• FIRPTA Affidavit by Doug Cornelius
• Death Penalty Defense Motion Book by James B. Atwood, Jr
• Sample Family Trust by Jim Bowman
• Reaffirmation Agreements Post BAPCPA by Marc S. Stern
• Do Wikis Belong in Law Firms? by Connie Crosby
• Florida Divorce Guide - How to Prepare Yourself for Divorce by James W. Hart
• E-Discovery: Implications of FRCP Changes on I.T. Risk Management by Bradley Schaufenbuel
• Motion to Administratively Close Removal Proceedings (for I-751) by Amy L. Becerra, Esq.
• Response to Request for Proposal (RFP) Regarding Legal and Government Relations Support Services by Phyllis J. Outlaw and Associates
• Criminal Law in New York, 4th: Ch 30.(Offenses Against the Right to Privacy), by Nicole Black
• Letter of Intent - Commercial Property - Canada by Clark Wilson LLP
• Complaint, Jury Demand, and Designation of Trial Counsel by Law Office of Steven Siegler
• Course Outline by Jim Walsh

Our analytics show that the more you publish, the more traffic your profile will receive - and yet, when it comes to marketing and business development, it only takes one good connection between your work and a researcher to reap the benefits of sharing on JD Supra.

(Example: while many people have found Doug Cornelius's form FIRPTA Affidavit, above, it was the fact that the right person saw his less-trafficked article: LinkedIn to My Facebook on My Blog - Social Media for Lawyers and Law Firm Staff, that made the difference.)

So, cast a wide net. Share a diverse range of work that shows what you do, what you know.

What to upload? Articles, forms, filings, decisions, newsletters, alerts - the choice is yours.

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Further reading:

- Lawyers Open Their File Cabinets for a Web Resource, The New York Times

 [*Answer: at time of writing the Sample Family Trust, included above, has received more views on JD Supra than any other document.]

Here's a round-up of some of the latest legal newsletters, articles, and alerts posted on JD Supra by our contributors. We also send via email an expanded, monthly version of this legal docs digest; sign up for it on the site:

[Note: If you are legal professional with work to share, we encourage to do it now. Join JD Supra and publish your daily written work to a wide online audience]

Washington Supreme Court Clarifies Distinction between Contribution and Subrogation Claims between Insurers, and Refines Standard for Prejudice for Late Notice Defense
Learn about this case and its implications in Lane Powell's latest newsletter.
 

Family Wealth Matters Newsletter - shared by Russell Golowin, features a discussion of Legalzoom and whether you should consider do-it-yourself legal services in general.

Investment Banker to a Seller's Board Owes No Fiduciary Duties to the Seller's Shareholders, Seventh Circuit Rules - submitted by Duane Morris, discusses the recent decision  that Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. ("Morgan Stanley") did not owe any contractual or extra-contractual duty to the shareholders of 21st Century Telecom Group, Inc. ("21st Century" and its shareholders, the "Shareholders"). Joyce v. Morgan Stanley & Co., No. 07-1992 (7th Cir. Aug. 19, 2008).
 

InBrief Fall 2008 - by Lang Michener, highlights a number of current issues:  failure to acknowledge one’s mistakes is discussed as grounds for dismissal; the likely rise in the cost of doing business, new tax options for independent contractors, cross-border whistleblower protection; identity theft and technology, security in electronic records, reasonable notice, the obligation to mitigate, the Keays case and much more.

How to Become a United States Government Contractor - by Robert Cogan, discloses how to become eligible for government contracts and research grants.

Subprime Solutions: Skillfully Navigating the Credit Crisis - August 2008 - by Mintz Levin’s Subprime Practice Group, gathers news on the subprime and credit crises from a variety of sources, to keep you apprised of breaking developments in this ever-evolving area and its far-reaching consequences.

Quarterly Cleantech Update: Green Marketing, "Greenwashing," and False Advertising - by Morrison & Foerster discusses deceptive or misleading marketing efforts  by some so-called "green" companies, referred to as “greenwashing.”

SELLING YOUR HOME -- TO TELL OR NOT TO TELL? - You’ve had your house on the market for three months and you’ve finally found a nice young couple who are going to make you an offer. They’ve looked over the house, but they didn’t notice that spot where the roof started leaking after that tropical storm last year. Do you tell them? Find out in this article by Gary Kaleita.

Life Tools for Lawyers: Optimism - this article from Cheryl Stephens will help you learn how to strengthen your practice--and your life--by cultivating an optimistic attitude.