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How a Midsize Firm Outsources Its Help Desk
Times are tough for industries across the spectrum of business. Large or small, emerging or established businesses are working overtime to find ways to trim the fat, increase productivity and make current processes more streamlined, effective and cost-efficient.
As the Chief Operating Officer of Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein, a PA-based business law firm, one of my core responsibilities is to ensure that the processes in place are working in favor of the firm's bottom line. When I joined Kaplin Stewart in 2002, one of the first places I looked to ensure value was the firm's outsourced services.
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
Why So Many Great Lawyers Stink at Business Development and What Law Firms Are Doing About It
Why is it that those who are best skilled at advocating for others are ill-equipped at advocating for their own skills and what to do about it?
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Risks of “Baseball Arbitration” in Resolving Real Estate Disputes
“Baseball arbitration” refers to the process used in Major League Baseball in which if an eligible player's representative and the club ownership cannot reach a compensation agreement through negotiation, each party enters a final submission and during a formal hearing each side — player and management — presents its case and then the designated panel of arbitrators chooses one of the salary bids with no other result being allowed. This method has become increasingly popular even beyond the sport of baseball.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.