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e-Commerce Slowing, But Continues to Grow and Outpace Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

Michael Lear-Olimpi

U.S. Census Bureau estimates for first-quarter e-commerce spending reflect a slowing economy, but e-commerce continued rising as a percentage of all retail spending, government figures released last month show.

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e-Speech Is Looking Like Free Speech With More Than Just Some Letters Missing

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Recent court decisions, congressional legislation and foreign governmental self-help actions appear to be aimed at transforming the new millennium's icon of free speech ' the Internet ' into a source of semi-free speech.

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It Takes More Than A Shingle to Be a Good e-Commerce Attorney

Michael Lear-Olimpi

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

Stanley P. Jaskiewicz

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?

Movers & Shakers

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

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

Managing Practice Group Profitability

Howard Mudrick

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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Bit Parts

Stan Soocher

Copyright Infringement/File Sharing<br>Copyright Infringement/Summary Judgment&lt;<br>Royalty Suit/Right to Trial by Jury<br>Sampling Suits/Sound Recordings

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Cameo Clips

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

BLANKET SONG LICENSES/INTERNET SERVICES<br>COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT/SETTLEMENT OFFER

CA Supreme Court: Film/Book Consulting, Not Conflicts Mandating Recusal

Mike McKee

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

Edward Poll

Cash cannot be realized until clients understand the benefits they have received from the lawyer's services &mdash; and agree to pay the bill. The key is to understand and convey value to the client, expressed in clear and understandable terms.

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