Posted by emalie@attorneyguide.com on September 15, 2011 at 8:47 am
At AttorneyGuide we seek to simplify all aspects of the legal process. Although we provide an excellent directory of Certified Ethical attorneys at www.attorneyguide.com, we understand retaining a lawyer is not always the most prudent financial decision for simple legal matters. For this reason, we thought it would be helpful to offer an alternative option.
At our Legal Forms store, www.attorneyguide.com/legalformstore, you will find legally binding documents to help resolve your legal issue at an affordable price. Our forms include Affidavits, Agreements, Contracts, Declarations, Notices, Power of Attorneys, Wills and others with short descriptions detailing their use. If you have a simple legal issue, you’d like to resolve yourself go to www.attorneyguide.com/legalformstore and please don’t hesitate to call us with any questions.
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Posted by CJ (admin) on April 23, 2011 at 1:49 pm
AttorneyGuide.com, LLC is proud to announce that we have expanded our portfolio of services for lawyers in Reno and Las Vegas. We now can offer website design, search engine optimization, social media integration, reputation management, Google Places, Pay Per Click and video creation/optimization. If you’re an attorney and would like to get a free quote on any of these services, please let us know. We are a small shop which means we charge less than the big companies like Lawyers.com and Findlaw.com and you work directly with us, not some monkey that gets paid peanuts. We’d love to work with any attorney across the country. Feel free to ask about our portfolio and what we can do for your firm. Thanks.
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Posted by CJ (admin) on April 23, 2011 at 1:46 pm
I hear this all the time; I have a website already, that’s all I need. Really, that’s all you need? So why is it you’re not getting any business from it? There’s a perfectly good answer, no one is finding it.
I try to use the illustration of a billboard in the middle of the desert. You can have the nicest billboard in the world, with everything that everyone needs to know about your business. You have the phone number on there, a great picture of you and you sit back and expect the phone to start to ring. I’m sure you see where I’m going with this. No one calls you because no one knows it’s there. You can give people directions and the address and then maybe they can see it but there are no roads to get there and since no one lives in the desert they certainly aren’t going to drive by and see it.
The connection here is that consumers live on Google. Our site get’s 72% of it’s traffic as a result of Google and other search engines. You have to tell Google where to find you and make sure that you build your website with the proper driving directions. This is called search engine optimization. It’s not enough to only have a great website. A large majority of people will turn to their mobile device or their computer and go straight to Google to look up whatever it is they need at the moment. Think about your own tendencies as a consumer. You don’t want to be the business that can’t be found on page 1 of Google because I can guarantee you that your competition is already working on it!
Here’s another mind blower: Recognizable phone numbers don’t even matter anymore because you don’t need them. I had an attorney tell me that they spent a lot of money on a unique phone number. Waste of money, I told him. When you can go to Google on your phone, type in what you’re looking for, hit a button and make the call, you don’t need to remember anything anymore. I can remember phone numbers from my childhood but I can’t even remember my mom’s phone number because it’s stored in my phone and I don’t have to remember it. Do you think that I’m actually going to remember a number I see on a billboard by the time I get home? Unless you’re going to spend millions of dollars each year on jingles, billboards and tv/radio ads, a unique phone number is absolutely worthless.
So, take your hard earned money and invest it in what works: search engine marketing. It’s proven to work and with social media integration, it’s all you really need. Call AttorneyGuide.com, LLC today for a free consultation. Thanks!
CJ
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Posted by CJ (admin) on March 31, 2011 at 4:44 pm
There are over 3,000 lawyers in Las Vegas. Here’s some advice on how to find an attorney in Las Vegas. If you just feel too overwhelmed and don’t know where to turn, please call us at (800) 748-5590. If you prefer the internet, check out www.attorneyguide.com.
Hiring an attorney to protect your rights is an extremely important decision. First and foremost, you want an attorney you can trust. You thus want an attorney who has no record of public disciplinary action and a proven history of integrity.
Many bar associations offer a referral service to help people find an attorney. Usually, any member of the organization can list with its referral service by simply paying a fee. You cannot know just from the referral that the attorney is qualified or ethical. AttorneyGuide.com™ has very high standards for membership and specific criteria that attorneys must meet to be certified as an ethical attorney. Attorneys cannot buy an ethical rating, they must earn it by maintaining the highest standards of right and wrong. Those standards are reviewed and scrutinized every sixty (60) days to ensure the ongoing integrity of our attorneys. If any ethical violations are discovered, the attorney is immediately decertified and removed from our member listing.
Attorney advertising can be very expensive. That is why honest and ethical attorneys with proven track records receive most of their new cases through “referrals” – commonly known as word-of-mouth advertising. They do not have to buy the largest ad in the telephone book or billboard to solicit new clients; their excellent reputation for honesty and integrity, and favorable outcomes, speak for them. Conversely, other attorneys may buy the largest ad they can afford to make their practice appear larger and better than they really are. Indeed, our research has disclosed a correlation between the attorneys with the largest advertisements and those attorneys with the most problematic disciplinary issues.
Every year, many attorneys are disciplined, suspended or disbarred for ethical violations. Those violations can be minor – such as failing to return clients’ telephone calls, or very serious – like misappropriating client funds. How can you avoid hiring these unethical attorneys? AttorneyGuide.com™ is the first and only directory of Certified Ethical™ attorneys. We protect your rights by referring you to only reputable attorneys who are certified as ethical. In the event that any dispute arises between you and your attorney, most states offer dispute resolution services; which may be a benefit to you in the event of a fee dispute. If you feel that your attorney has acted in an unethical manner, each state has a grievance procedure where you can file a complaint against your attorney and have your complaint investigated. If your complaint is substantiated and your attorney is reprimanded and/or disciplined by the state bar association, AttorneyGuide will immediately revoke that attorney’s ethical certification and remove that attorney from our member listing.
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Posted by CJ (admin) on March 7, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Nevada Statutes of Limitations
“Statutes of limitations” are laws that set time limits on how long you have to file a “civil” lawsuit, like a personal injury lawsuit, or how long the state has to prosecute someone for committing a crime. These time limits usually depend on the legal claim or crime involved in the case, and they’re different from state to state. For example, in some states you may have three years to file a personal injury lawsuit after you were hurt in car accident, but in other states you may have two years. As a general rule:
- The time period begins to run on the date your claim arises or “accrues,” like the day of the car accident, or when a crime is committed, and
- Once the statute of limitations has expired or “run,” you can’t file a lawsuit (or be prosecuted for a crime)
Below are the statutes of limitations in Nevada for various civil claims and crimes. The list doesn’t cover everything. Also, the laws may change at anytime, so be sure to check the current laws and read them carefully, or talk to an attorney if you have any questions.
Civil
Note: Most of the civil statutes of limitations are in Title 2, Chapter 11 of the Nevada Revised Statutes. You can scroll through the laws in this Chapter to find the statute of limitations for civil claims or “causes of action” not listed below.
| Description |
Statute
|
| Assault and Battery, 2 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.190(4)(c) |
| Contract (in writing), 6 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.190(1)(b) |
| Contract (oral or not in writing), 4 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.190(2)(c) |
| False Imprisonment, 2 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.190(4)(c) |
| Fraud, 3 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.190(4)(c) |
| Enforcing Court Judgments, 6 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.190(1)(a) |
| Legal Malpractice, 2 or 4 years (Depending on when the malpractice is “discovered.”) |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.207 |
| Libel, 2 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.190(4)(c) |
| Medical Malpractice, 2 or 4 years (Depending on when the malpractice is “discovered.”) |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 41A.097(1) |
| Personal Injury, 2 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.190(4)(e) |
| Product Liability, 2 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.190(4)(e) |
| Property Damage, 3 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.190(3)(c) |
| Slander, 2 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.190(4)(c) |
| Trespass, 3 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.190(3)(b) |
| Wrongful Death, 2 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.190(4)(e) |
Criminal
Note: Most of the criminal statutes of limitations are in sections 171.080 through 171.100 in Title 14, Chapter 171 of the Nevada Revised Statutes. You can scroll through the criminal laws, which are in several Chapters in Title 15, to find crimes not listed below, and then use §§ 171.080 – 171.100 to find the statutes of limitations for those crimes.
| Description |
Statute
|
| Arson, 4 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 171.085(1) |
| Assault and Battery, 1, 2, or 3 years (Depending on the facts of the case) |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 171.085(2) or Nev. Rev. Stat. § 171.090(1) or (2) |
| Burglary, 4 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 171.085(1) |
| Disorderly Conduct (“Breach of Peace”), 1 year |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 171.090(2) |
| Kidnapping, 3 or 8 years (Depending on the facts of the case) |
Nev. Rev. Stat. §§ 171.084(1) or 171.085(2) |
| Manslaughter, voluntary, 3 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 171.085(2) |
| Manslaughter, involuntary, 3 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 171.085(2) |
| Murder, first degree No time limit |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 171.080(1) |
| Murder, second degree, No time limit |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 171.080(1) |
| Rape (“Sexual Assault”), No time limit or 4 years (Depending on the facts of the case) |
Nev. Rev. Stat. §§ 171.083 or 171.085(1) |
| Receiving Stolen Property, 4 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 171.085(1) |
| Robbery, 4 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 171.085(1) |
| Theft, 4 years |
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 171.085(1) |
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