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<b><i>Case Study:</i></b> Using Document Assembly Tools to Improve Services to Start-ups Image

<b><i>Case Study:</i></b> Using Document Assembly Tools to Improve Services to Start-ups

Chris Boyd

On the whole, companies prefer to invest their time and money in product development, marketing and other core activities rather than on legal services. Early-stage technology and life sciences companies prefer to work with law firms that pragmatically and efficiently help enterprises build strong legal foundations and achieve business goals.

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Accelerating Operational Effectiveness and Disaster Recovery with Riverbed

David Otte

Like so many large Am Law 100 law firms with offices across the United States and around the world, our firm was facing challenges sharing and backing up data, and we wanted to strengthen our disaster recovery capabilities without compromising our operational excellence. Our challenge was that we had a complex legacy network connecting all the offices. At times, this resulted in slow data transfers, limiting our legal teams' opportunities to efficiently and effectively leverage interoffice resources.

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Managing Section Breaks in Microsoft Word

Sue Hughes

While one can spend an entire training session covering Section Breaks, Headers/Footers, Page Numbering, etc. (and I highly recommend doing so), it can help to manage Section Breaks if you know a little about them to begin with.

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Oh, Data, Where Art Thou?

Donna Seyle

The ability to convert capital expenditures to operating expenses, tax considerations and other cost-savings benefits are sending businesses to the cloud with glee, while the legal profession is lagging behind but getting the hint. As the evolution of security measures becomes more imperative, tales of international disagreement regarding security regulation make the location of a vendor's servers a question of paramount importance in selecting a cloud provider. For lawyers, this question of location is compounded by jurisdictional considerations.

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Movers & Shakers

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Who's doing what; who's going where.

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Rooftop Solar Power Generation

Michael P. Carvalho

This two-part article discusses the types of solar power generation, recent federal and state incentives to increase supply and demand for the photovoltaic (PV) market, and challenges and opportunities for commercial users.

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In the Spotlight: Subleasing Benefits and Risks

Lars Andersen

Significant amounts of office space are now becoming available for subleasing as prime tenants seek subrent income to help cover their prime rent obligations to their landlord. Here's a look at the pluses and minuses of subleasing.

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A New Use for an Old Tool

Adam Leitman Bailey & Dov Treiman

Commercial leasing litigation has become an art form ' and in states like New York, attorneys have, as a result of technicalities such as failing to serve the tenant properly, kept non-paying tenants in possession for years.

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Prognostication Is a Mug's Game

Bruce W. Marcus

What are reasonable assumptions about the future of the legal profession in this dynamic society? Here, we can surmise ' if not predict ' a future by extrapolating two things from the past.

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Lessons from Twitter's Settlement with the FTC

William B. Baker

The announcement that social-networking phenomenon Twitter has agreed to settle FTC charges that it had engaged in inadequate privacy and information security practices illustrates some simple mistakes that social media and other online companies can make. If the consent decree is approved, Twitter will have to live with the oversight that accompanies an FTC consent decree for 20 years (or more than four times the length of time that the company has existed).

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