USING MAILING LISTS TO STAY CURRENT

Internet mailing lists are a great way to keep up on the status of pending legislation. Instead of relying on the normal channels for (stale) information, Colorado lawyer Joseph Hodges, Jr., finds up-to-date information on mailing lists:

Another recent experience involves some pending legislation in Congress. There are three bills currently pending that would exempt charitable gift annuities from the federal antitrust and securities laws. These bills are of vital interest to all of our charitable and donor clients, and a massive letter-writing and emailing campaign in support of the same is currently underway. Were it not for my ability to tap into various listservs so I can receive copies of all the emails that are circulating around the Internet about the progress of these bills, and where and to whom we should write about the same, let alone the various Web sites where I have been able to look up the phone, fax, and email addresses of our elected representatives, I would be either totally in the dark or at the mercy of the information my clients are receiving about all this. Instead, thanks to the Internet, I am able to stay so up to date on all of this that my existing clients are even encouraging other potential clients to contact me for the latest on this subject. Also, not only can I bill my clients for this work, but I can leverage the same work among several clients and, thereby, bill each client a bargain price for essentially the same information without doing serious damage to my overall net revenue line.

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