Yahoo! & Google Click Fraud Settlements & How to Reduce Click Fraud
Yahoo!'s click fraud settlement includes click fraud up until July 31, 2006. Obviously, click fraud is continuing but Yahoo!'s settlement is ending. There are a couple of things you can do to reduce click fraud.

How Much Should You Expect To Earn On Advertising?
Lawyers are often as afraid of advertising as playing Roulette. Try it for a month and if there’s no winnings, cut your losses! The casinos aren’t worried. To them it’s all business. They know they will lose big every now and then, but overall, they know, and control, the exact percentage [...]

Will Your Business Be Successful?
When there is little competition, business is easy and brute force advertising, using lots of money, works. But, when the going gets tough, brute force is destined for failure.When the competition intensifies, differentiation decides success or failure. A few large companies may survive by increasing brute force, but most will fail. [...]

Should You Buy Your Own TV Media Time or Use an Advertising Agency?
It may seem like a good idea for a lawyer to buy his or her own TV advertising media time, but is it really?

How to Avoid Retaining New Clients for Your Law Office
The first rule of both marketing and advertising is to make it as easy as possible for your customers, or clients, to contact you, yet some law offices are actually turning away new clients.Last week a large personal injury law firm, interested in advertising on TV, found my other website and sent me an e-mail [...]

Think You Should Cross Sell Other Law Practice Services to Your Clients?
Many legal practice consultants advise attorneys to cross sell legal services to their existing clients. For example, I, as a personal injury lawyer, could let my clients know that my law firm also represents clients for immigration, divorce and bankruptcy. It sounds like a good way to generate new business. Even if [...]

PORTLAND, Maine - Did the Brewer School Department discriminate against a winning softball coach because of her sexual orientation when she was not rehired in 2006?A day after California's Supreme Court ruled that gay couples in that state can marry, an initiative to repeal Maine's gay rights law and reaffirm a law against gay marriages continued to move forward Friday.PORTLAND, Maine - The question of public funding for students at religious schools was back before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday.PORTLAND - Daniel Roberts appealed his murder conviction Thursday to Maine's highest court, saying the trial judge erred on several counts. Thomas Marjerison argued Roberts' case before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court at Cumberland County Courthouse.PORTLAND - Rumford lawyer Seth Carey on Wednesday told a professional panel overseeing complaints filed against him that he regretted things he's said in the heat of the moment. He also admitted to lapses in judgment.AUGUSTA, Maine - A day after California’s Supreme Court ruled that gay couples in that state can marry, an initiative to repeal Maine’s gay rights law and reaffirm a law against gay marriages moved forward Friday.Boston A Dorchester man was sentenced to 14 years in state prison yesterday after he pleaded guilty to a 2006 stabbing death, according to Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley's office. Michael Penn, 34, pleaded guilty in Suffolk Superior Court to one count of voluntary manslaughter for the April 2006 death of 39-year-old Eric Johnson of Mattapan. The two men ...PORTLAND - A Harrison woman pleaded not guilty in Cumberland County Superior Court Thursday to killing her 3½-month-old son. Pamela Henderson, 43, of 12 Mill St. is being held without bail at the Cumberland County Jail on one count of murder.PORTLAND (NEWS CENTER)

43-year-old Pamela Henderson pleaded not guilty to murder charges Thursday afternoon. Prosecutors say the evidence in this case clearly supports that charge.CAMDEN — Without acknowledging that it fired executive director Claire Adams last month, the board of the Camden-Rockport-Lincolnville Chamber of Commerce says the organization will be led temporarily by Paul Kelley Jr.