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Upgrading Microsoft Office and What It Means to Your Service Desk
With the worldwide release of Office 2010 in June, Microsoft has once again unleashed a frenzy of new software purchases ' and even more Office upgrades ' globally.
While Microsoft is touting the versions of Office 2010 preinstalled on new PCs for consumers, business customers, including law firms, have to carefully weigh their options when contemplating an upgrade. In addition to the obvious end-user productivity, software, training, hardware, and IT resource costs associated with such an upgrade, law firms have to think twice about what such a “mission critical” upgrade might mean for their internal help desks and their ability to best serve the firms' users. While some firms for now have chosen to leave what works well enough alone, and there are discussions of other cloud-based alternatives such as Google Docs, many are making significant upgrades to the latest version of Office for strategic reasons, while still others see it as a necessary evil to keep their product supported. With that being the case, what can the legal help desk proactively initiate to plan for, anticipate and deal with potential support increases related to MS Office and other major software upgrades?
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.
Law Firms are Reducing Redundant Real Estate by Bringing Support Services Back to the Office
A trend analysis of the benefits and challenges of bringing back administrative, word processing and billing services to law offices.
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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.
One Overlooked Element of Executive Safety: Data Privacy
Executives have access to some of the company's most sensitive information, and they're increasingly being targeted by hackers looking to steal company secrets or to perpetrate cybercrimes.