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Outsourced Records Center Creates New Space/Time Paradigm
When Haight Brown & Bonesteel, a 90-attorney law firm in California, decided to relocate in 2001, we were faced with a serious records management issue: our new records center would only be one-third the size of our current space. Knowing that significant changes were in order, we called in an outside vendor to conduct a needs assessment and offer recommendations. The initial project scope included the installation of a records management application, creation of protocol standards, an implementation plan, the establishment of best practices and a play by play directive for the imminent records center move. Outsourcing the day-to-day center operations to a vendor was not the original goal, but here's what happened:
The Assessment
Once the volume of active records was known, our chosen vendor Uniscribe Professional Services, lead by Jim Higdon, National Director of Information Resources, and his team of records management analysts appraised the situation. After a thorough due diligence process involving the firm's records managers, attorneys and administrators, the Uniscribe team made their primary recommendation: centralize the records center in order to automate and streamline the firm's entire records management function. In order to achieve this we had to overcome several key issues and concerns.
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.
Removing Restrictive Covenants In New York
In Rockwell v. Despart, the New York Supreme Court, Third Department, recently revisited a recurring question: When may a landowner seek judicial removal of a covenant restricting use of her land?
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.