© Bruce C. Ward March 2000
I modestly predict that in five years your web address will be more important to your business than your street address or telephone number is today. If this is true why don't you have one? The coveted .com addresses are going fast. And anything short and snappy is long gone. How much would you pay today for lawyer.com? (Not much, I guess if you are a doctor.) It costs about $100 to tie up a web name. More, of course, if you want to start using it. There are companies who will help you find the and purchase the right name. Others who will help you get a web page set up. Don't
wait too long.
I recently read an article on the history of the Internet and got to thinking about the advantages of electronic mail over letter mail. One is that e-mail doesn't require the formality of a typed letter. The sender of e-mail can write tersely without as much attention to the style and spelling. You can send mesages to people who are in positions superior to yours and to those you don't even know well without fear of offense. That kind of informality is never present with typed letters. Another
one is that with e-mail you don't have to beat around the bush. You
can get right to the point without the usual small talk that attends more
formal means of communication, including typed letters and even the telephone.
This is because the sender and receiver do not have to be available at
the same time with e-mail. One party can start a thread; the other
picks up and builds on it; and so on. No missed phone calls.
No inordinate delay while the Post Office fools around with your letter.
The Kansas Credit Attorneys Association and the Kansas Collectors Association share expenses of a professional lobbyist each year. The groups meet once a week by phone during the legislative session and frequently at other times of the year to shape a legislative policy for the two groups. See the October 1999 newsletter for information on the 1999 session. The legislative goals for the year 2000 are: 1. Help get the Judicial Council Chapter 61 package passed. 2. Oppose any tightening of the Kansas Fair Credit Reporting Act and watch any developments in the area of identity fraud. 3. Watch for any proposed increases in court costs. 4. Assess the proposed amendment to the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act (K.S.A. 60-3001, et. seq.) by the Judicial Council. If passed, this will undo part of what we got passed in the 1999 session. 5. Continue in our efforts to get K.S.A. 60-2310 (d) amended to make it possible to use wage garnishment on assigned accounts. 6. Watch for any attempts to unfavorably amend the bad check statute. |