LJN Newsletters

  • Accelerating Operational Effectiveness and Disaster Recovery with Riverbed

    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.

    September 27, 2010David Otte

  • Managing Section Breaks in Microsoft Word

    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.

    September 27, 2010Sue Hughes

  • Oh, Data, Where Art Thou?

    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.

    September 27, 2010Donna Seyle

  • Movers & Shakers

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

    September 27, 2010ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Rooftop Solar Power Generation

    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.

    September 27, 2010Michael P. Carvalho

  • In the Spotlight: Subleasing Benefits and Risks

    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.

    September 27, 2010Lars Andersen

  • A New Use for an Old Tool

    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.

    September 27, 2010Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman

  • Prognostication Is a Mug's Game

    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.

    August 31, 2010Bruce W. Marcus

  • Lessons from Twitter's Settlement with the FTC

    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).

    August 30, 2010William B. Baker

  • The Brave New World Of e-Workplace Privacy Policies

    Part One of this article, last month, examined the liability involved with social media and e-mail use. Part Two discusses implementing compliant and defensible workplace policies.

    August 30, 2010Robert D. Brownstone