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Building Enterprise Search From The Ground Up
Lawyers are very demanding of their search engines ' most of them were searching long before the Web and Google came along ' and they are experts in how they want to find and use information. By now, attorneys and legal staff are all too familiar with the two sides of information proliferation ' the potential for information ubiquity where the right information is available at the right time, balanced with the difficulty of actually finding the most relevant items from among the mass of available information.
Technology leaders at law firms are under increasing pressure to provide information ubiquity ' not an easy task given the challenge of actually connecting heterogeneous data structures and file types across multiple information sources to the people who need them.
Enterprise search is a critical component of the information sharing architecture ' it is a way to tie information sources together from the user perspective, so that information can be found quickly and easily. It can provide a shortcut, avoiding the need to actually integrate information sources yet providing users with a seamless, enterprise-wide view of a firm's knowledge. While most firms do have search capabilities, either embedded in an existing application or as part of a portal or Intranet, these search engines often don't fill the need because they don't enable enterprise-wide search, multi-faceted search unifying disparate taxonomy structures, or have the level of accuracy necessary to find the proverbial needle in the legal haystack. These elements are the keys to achieving firm-wide efficiency and knowledge leverage.
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Stranger to the Deed Rule
In 1987, a unanimous Court of Appeals reaffirmed the vitality of the "stranger to the deed" rule, which holds that if a grantor executes a deed to a grantee purporting to create an easement in a third party, the easement is invalid. Daniello v. Wagner, decided by the Second Department on November 29th, makes it clear that not all grantors (or their lawyers) have received the Court of Appeals' message, suggesting that the rule needs re-examination.