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Over the past three years of tough times, many law firms have put up with "jerks" in their partnership ranks in order to hold on to the portfolios of work controlled by those people. But there are ramifications to this decision, as seen by the departure of some great and traditionally strong law firms from the legal map.

When you are starting a new practice it is essential that you first have a viable Business Plan in place. Even if your firm has been up and running for years, a fresh look back to business plan basics can help your bottom line tremendously.

Advocates for online health services have long argued that the health care-services and health care-products industries could significantly enhance its ability to deliver quality products and services to consumers by using e-commerce to improve access to, and the timeliness and accuracy of, information, delivery and purchasing pertaining to the health care-sector supply chain.

A recent trend in the human resources community is to ask prospective employees for usernames and passwords to social media sites to allow the hiring employer access to otherwise private information about an employment candidate's "online identity." e-Commerce companies, even though they are based on and operate through online activities, sometimes through social media, should carefully consider what principals and hiring parties in the firms may view as a natural inclination to examine an applicant's or an employee's social media postings and persona by demanding access to the sites.

The thought that people do not need to be engaged or motivated when faced with new information is based on the mythology that assumes that we can just pour facts into the passive minds of our judges, and they will automatically and somehow "get it.

Much virtual ink has been spilled about the complexities of applying traditional copyright law to e-commerce (and the Internet, generally). The intersection of law developed for the written word on paper, and tangible objects, and digital distribution of their modern equivalents, remains a work in progress, to say the least.

Is it permissible for a judge to become friends on a social media site with lawyers who appear before the judge? The comments to the rule do not address the issue, and there is disagreement among ethics committees in the various states with respect to this specific question.

Highlights of the latest equipment leasing news from around the country.