Lateral partner candidates need to look beyond PPP and focus on what the authors call PPM ' "profits per me." Averages are great, but how much of the law firm's profits can one fairly expect to get?
Who can dispute that the Portable Document Format has become the lingua franca of legal documents today? PDF is the standard for electronic filing, scanned documents, digital signatures, form distribution, and much more. Adobe has now released version 9 of its flagship application, and while there isn't much that is brand new, there are some noteworthy improvements for the legal community.
Why and how a "confidential e-mail" might not be so confidential--and what can ensue when it leaks.
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?
The popularity of SharePoint is undeniable. As the legal competitive landscape intensifies, more and more firms are looking to SharePoint to improve client service and collaboration. SharePoint allows law firms to store and locate critical information in convenient, flexible, sites, bringing it together in a meaningful way and enabling attorneys to become educated on industry trends and client concerns via the use of wikis, blogs, RSS feeds and the like. Below is an outline of the key benefits of SharePoint to law firms of all sizes, and how firms can take advantage of these features.
Lotus Notes is most commonly known as an e-mail and calendaring application often compared with Microsoft Exchange. However, Lotus Notes can be much more than just e-mail. The collection of Lotus-based data requires a carefully considered approach that can present interesting e-discovery challenges.
Important news and rulings from neighboring states.
Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.
Last month, the author discussed the controversial proposal to replace New York's current maintenance scheme with "Post-Marital Income Guidelines." What follows is a critique of the proposed legislation, based in large measure on a report of the Legislative Committee of the Family Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.
An increasing number of properties have been and continue to be classified as having some kind of recognized environmental condition. The REC classification arises from the EPA crackdown over the past few decades to ensure that property owners and the parties who are responsible for causing the contamination actually share in the cost and burden of the remediation process.
