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It Takes More Than A Shingle to Be a Good e-Commerce Attorney
If you've grabbed the brass ring ' or you want to prepare to ' don't rest on your laurels too long. Experienced e-commerce counsel warn colleagues not to let the ever-shifting world of e-commerce catch them unaware. Traits of effective e-commerce counsel, culled from a cadre of some of these experts, follow.
Dressing Your e-Business Up for Success
Asking an e-commerce entrepreneur whether he or she knows what the business looks like may seem silly. After all ' doesn't it seem a given that no one can run a business, whether an e-commerce venture or a traditional bricks-and-mortar storefront operation, without knowing its basic financial information, especially cash flows, receivables and payables, and the balance sheet?
Managing Practice Group Profitability
Managers can no longer ignore the performance of individual practices, hoping problems will correct themselves. Firms everywhere are venturing into various types of reporting and 'profit center accounting,' typically based on the performance of individual practice groups and even specific clients. However, they take a variety of approaches to these analyses, and the differences can cause severely different analytic outcomes.
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CA Supreme Court: Film/Book Consulting, Not Conflicts Mandating Recusal
It was prosecutor vindication time at the California Supreme Court in May. In unanimous rulings authored by Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar, the state high court held that the Second District Court of Appeal erred when it ordered three deputy district attorneys removed from separate cases each was handling. The ruling chastised the Second District's Ventura branch for failing to grant appropriate deference to a trial court judge's decision that no disqualifying conflict existed for Santa Barbara County prosecutors Joyce Dudley and Ronald Zonen.
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Lawyer or Laborer? Value Billing Helps Lawyers Convey the Worth, Not Just the Cost, of Their Services
Cash cannot be realized until clients understand the benefits they have received from the lawyer's services — and agree to pay the bill. The key is to understand and convey value to the client, expressed in clear and understandable terms.
RIAA Counsel Appointed Appellate Judge
Richard L. Gabriel, the lead attorney for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in its copyright-infringement suits against individuals over the file-sharing of music, has been appointed to the Colorado Court of Appeals.
<b>Practice Notes:</b> Judge Denies Fees to Lawyers in Hip-Hop Bankruptcy
A bankruptcy judge slammed a New York law firm for putting its own desire to be paid above the interests of its hip-hop publishing client in a Chapter 11 proceeding. In a stinging 38-page decision, Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Judge Arthur J. Gonzalez denied Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf any compensation for its work on the bankruptcy of hip-hop media company Source Enterprises Inc.
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