There are no right or wrong answers as to exactly when an attorney should be in the office, or how many hours are enough (or too much). So what should you do?
September 28, 2011Sheldon I. Banoff
If you fail to keep in touch with your prospects on a regular basis, your business development efforts will likely fall short of your hoped-for results.
September 28, 2011Sara HoltzThe intent of this column is to provide a framework for identifying the relative benefits of hosting an event. How can we turn an event into a means for generating revenue?
September 28, 2011Timothy B. CorcoranHow you say something is as important as what you say. If content is king, then delivery is its scepter, crown and cape.
September 28, 2011Sean LeenaertsThere's a fairly robust legal community developing on Google+. Here's what you need to know.
September 28, 2011Jay JaffeIn CyberSource v. Retail Decisions, a panel of the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court's summary judgment ruling that the asserted patent claims were invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101, and held that purely mental processes are unpatentable abstract ideas. The court decided that merely limiting an unpatentable mental process to a computer-readable medium for execution on a processor, in a so-called Beauregard claim, did not satisfy § 101.
September 28, 2011Brian AveryThe America Invents Act, passed by Congress on Sept. 9, 2011, and signed into law on Sept. 16, 2011, imposes sweeping changes to U.S. patent law. This article focuses on how the new patent laws will require patent practitioners to change the way they practice and advise their clients.
September 28, 2011Larry. A. RobertsHighlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.
September 28, 2011ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.
September 28, 2011Charles G. Miller and Darryl A. HartTwo relatively recent court decisions addressing the common franchise issue of encroachment re-confirm the importance of carefully drafting each provision in a franchise agreement and shed some additional light on how courts will view and address encroachment claims going forward.
September 28, 2011Jay W. Schlosser