Features
The Future Value of Today's Inventory
Most law firm managers understand intuitively that the value of inventory (both WIP and A/R) degrades over time, but by how much and how quickly? The ability to understand and answer these two questions is the first step in preparing a realistic, forward-looking valuation model ' one that can identify opportunities and drive action.
Features
Ethical Issues of the 21st Century
In Part One of this article, the authors covered ethical issues relating to e-mail. In Part Two below, they discuss ethical issues related to e-discovery and social networking and blogs.
LAW FIRM MARKETING AND DIVERSITY
LAW FIRM MARKETING AND DIVERSITY concludes this series. Efforts to overcome a client's mis-understandings of the value diversity brings can be divided into two fundamental approaches. First, understanding the client. You know his/her predilections on a sensitive social issue. Because you know them, you are able to create a marketing message that balances the equation and maintains the relationships on both ends, with him and with other buyers who have very different predilections. Second, and on…
Features
When and How Can Departing Lawyers Contact Clients?
A primer on ethically contacting clients after a lawyer has left his or her firm.
Features
To Catch an e-Criminal
Someone is stealing electronic data from you ' right now. A person your firm or company has trusted for years is doing things that are making you suspect he or she is stealing. You don't know how or with whom, but you know something is wrong. What do you do? Where do you turn? How do you find out for sure?
Features
Counsel Concerns
Malpractice Claims/File-Sharing Software<br>Malpractice Claims/Statute of Limitations
Features
A Look At Disney's International Legal Team
For Peter Wiley, the Walt Disney Co.'s European head of legal, these are interesting times. His employer, one of the most iconic companies in the world, is engaged in a drive to expand internationally and take the House of Mouse into the digital age.
Features
When and How Can Departing Lawyers Contact Clients?
The article herein addresses the related questions of when and how can departing lawyers contact clients in an ethical manner.
Features
Professional Development: A Guide to Connecting with Potential Clients
Following are a few tips that will help you feel prepared and confident in potential business development situations.
Need Help?
- Prefer an IP authenticated environment? Request a transition or call 800-756-8993.
- Need other assistance? email Customer Service or call 1-877-256-2472.
MOST POPULAR STORIES
- The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year LaterThe 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.Read More ›
- Lack of Logo Placement At Center of Ruling Over Meat Loaf Album PackagingTo build visibility for its brand, a record label or production company will want its logo included on products containing its master recordings manufactured and distributed by third parties. This will be addressed in the agreement between the label or production company and manufacturer/distributor. The failure to include the logo may raise a host of issues, from the breadth of the logo-placement obligation ' such as whether it includes Internet downloads ' to the proper theory on which to base any damages and just which album-sales figures are subject to evidentiary discovery. A recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ' in a long-running dispute between Cleveland International Records and Sony Music Entertainment ' illustrated how these issues may be argued and decided.Read More ›
- Law Firms and the Rise of HospitalityThe law firm office cannot remain unchanged, as if frozen in time set to some date prior to the onset of pandemic, when the terms and meaning have all changed. In fact, the office must now provide benefits or an experience the lawyers and staff cannot get at home.Read More ›
- The DOJ's New Parameters for Evaluating Corporate Compliance ProgramsThe parameters set forth in the DOJ's memorandum have implications not only for the government's evaluation of compliance programs in the context of criminal charging decisions, but also for how defense counsel structure their conference-room advocacy seeking declinations or lesser sanctions in both criminal and civil investigations.Read More ›