Web Audio Conference Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:00PM – 2:00PM EST
An associate lawyer's job is to make anyone he or she works with look good. But the law firm environment can be confusing territory, requiring awareness and insight into the most effective ways to observe, contribute and align with legal activities that serve the daily internal/external client needs. Attorney development no longer includes the traditional mentor/apprentice relationships so valued in the early years of legal advocacy. On the road to being effective, visible and valued permanent members of a legal team, getting along with people matters. Navigational tools with all staff, both legal and support, will ease interactions and move your career forward.
As clocks tick faster and faster, the brightest and the best that the law schools can graduate just have to figure out how to actually practice law. Sophisticated legal clients are demanding, the competition is fierce and the productivity tools seem to encourage the pace and intensity of getting work done. But high IQs, Law Review positions and prestigious law school degrees make little difference when staff and colleagues refuse to work with you. Long days and brilliant legal analysis won't matter if you can't make conversation when joining partners and prospective clients for lunch. And subject matter depth on substantive legal issues may make for an important article on recent Supreme Court decisions, but fail to get you to equity partnership.
This Law Journal Newsletter Web Audio Conference will give you the knowledge to survive and strive in the world of today's Law Firm. Learn how to achieve and utilize the necessary skills that will make your years of hard work worth it.
Topics include:
Developing, nurturing and maintaining relationships.
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 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.
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.
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.
UCC Sections 9406(d) and 9408(a) are one of the most powerful, yet least understood, sections of the Uniform Commercial Code. On their face, they appear to override anti-assignment provisions in agreements that would limit the grant of a security interest. But do these sections really work?
