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e-Commerce Docket Sheet
Recent cases in e-commerce law and in the e-commerce industry.
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e-Commerce Holds Strong in Fourth Quarter
The federal government last month put its estimate of e-commerce sales for the fourth quarter of 2006 at $29.3 billion, up 6.3% from the third quarter, and up 24.6% from the fourth quarter of 2005, with the increase in total retail sales from late 2005 to late 2006 estimated at 4.6%.
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Your Law Firm Web Site
A law firm Web site is an interactive experience ' one that takes place between someone in need of information and someone in the position to provide that information.The total experience a client or prospective client has while visiting a Web site reflects on your firm. A bad experience forms a bad association. A good experience creates a good one.
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Getting Published: The Foundation for Business Development
Business development in the legal community is a science, but it requires the creativity of an artist. That artistry can be demonstrated most powerfully through the written word, a tool of great lawyers for centuries. Encapsulating an interesting case or complex transaction into 500 or 1000 words for the benefit of colleagues and the business community at large is the single best way to demonstrate expertise on a macro scale. It is at the very core of client generation.
International Internet Law
It's a situation in the legal realm as surely as it is with the growth of any industry or business: As worldwide Internet use grows, international Internet legal difficulties increase.<br>Resolution of these difficulties that are on the rise is commonly obtained through traditional international treaties, conventions and jurisdictions; however, some critical matters concerning international use and regulation of the Internet remain unsettled and are at various stages of resolution or examination.
<b>Media & Communications Corner:</b> The Confluence of Media and Business Development
When it comes to talking about media and business development, Proskauer Rose CMO Joe Calve believes it's important to separate press coverage from advertising. That being said, Calve does employ both public relations and advertising in the marketing mix.
Which Business Sales Agreement Clauses to Read First
After finally making the difficult decision to sell the business that he or she built, how does that entrepreneur react when his or her attorney sends 50 pages of fine print for review?
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<b>Corner Office</b>: Are Gray-Haired Partners Expendable?
Gray-haired, older, or as I shall refer to them, senior partners, as a class, represent a challenge that most managing partners find vexing. Many firms have avoided addressing this very complex issue either because of the emotional reaction it invokes, or because they just don't see it as a real problem yet. Others have adopted the apparently simple solution of setting a mandatory retirement age at which the partner is expected to stop practicing and head for a retirement community.
Advising e-Commerce Business Startups: A Crib Sheet
In the first of a two-part article, our expert author examines some issues that e-commerce counsel should pay particular attention to when advising e-commerce startups, particularly small, single-entrepreneur or small-group driven Internet-based storefronts.
Do You Know What Companies Really Want?
In the 20 years I have worked with and for in-house counsel and CEOs, this recent statement to me by a Fortune 100 senior in-house counsel is the strongest yet. Over the years I've compiled a number of such statements, which, if more moderate in tone, are equally serious in intent. Many of them zero in with a great deal of specificity on buyers' discontent and, as such, are particularly helpful, if disconcerting.
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