Steven Pinkert's Background - Page 2
After
college Steven attended Northwestern University Medical
School.
During Medical School an old friend called him and told
Steven that he should check out the new Apple II
computer.
His friend told him that it could do everything that
the IBM 1620 could do and in fact it had the same amount of
memory, 48K.
So Steven
purchased the Apple II and learned to program in basic. He
also learned machine language as there were many limitations
to basic in the early Apple Basic language and one could use
small machine language patches easily with Basic. Steven's
first project on the new Apple was the design and coding of a
complete medical billing system for outpatient psychiatry -
his medical practice area at the time.
Up until the
PC, Word Processing, one of the most pressing
needs for business, was extremely expensive. The early Apple
systems were lacking in word processing features. In
fact that original Apple II was unable to create lowercase
characters.
In
about 1983, a company named Fortune Sytems Corporation came out
with a microcomputer that emulated Wang word processing for
a fraction of the price of the Wang
system. Fortune used the relatively commerically new Unix
system and Unix was a fairly easy platform to code. So
Steven Pinkert and a few of his friends started a software
development and hardware support company called Integrated
Circuit Systems, Inc. The centerpiece of their company
was the development of an integrated legal software
system. Because the company was inadequately capitalized it
was never able to fully complete the software, but the concept
and the creativity were there.
Steven Practiced medicine
in Chicago until l994. Then he decided to change
careers and study law. So in 1995 he
and his family moved to Miami where Steven studied law at
the Uiversity of Miami School of Law. After law school
Steven Pinkert decided to also obtain a business degree so he
enrolled in the Business School at the University of
Miami. It was just after completing his MBA that Steven
had the idea to start LawAlumni.com as a network and source of
legal clients for he and his fellow law school
classmates. Steven knew little about HTML, but he
reserched and studied and decided to use Cold Fusion as a
database interface and Dreamweaver to create
LawAlumni.com.
LawAlumni
was completed in 2002 and most of Steven's law school
classmates signed up as members. However, Steven did not
have the time to continue to maintian the site. Now, with
the social media movement Steven feels the time is right to
redo LawAlumni.com and make it available for all law school
graduates. At this time Steven is considering
this plan.
Steven can
be reached at spinkert@pinkertlaw.com or at his office phone 305-788-3900. His practice areas include Patent
and Trademark law, Real Estate, Commerical Litigation, Transactional
Law, Bar Admissions, and Attorney Grievances.
Steven is also a consultant
for Green Energy Projects, Large Scale Medical Equipment, and Chinese
and Latin American Market Entry.
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